Such Haste!

"The gate was closing for the night. Miryam was on the proper side of the wall. Ivan was not."

Ivan rushed from the doorway where he had been concealed, jumping, turning halfway round, landing on his back in the thick, coarse straw piled behind the supply wagons.Not two strides behind, Miryam pounced, landing astride the young lad with a...

Drum Song

"Finding Love during the Fur Trade"

It was the summer of 1683 when Jean Riel arrived in Lachine. His long journey from Limrik, Ireland to New France had finally concluded.The son of a French soldier and an innocent Irish maid he had stayed in Ireland after his father returned to...

La Bella and Il Mostro (part 2)

"Our young beauty continues her sensual journey in Venice"

Jutta was overwhelmed with feelings she did not understand. She was breathing so fast she became light-headed.  She struggled her way down the ladder and then fled the library without thinking. Her silk robe was left crumpled on the wood...

Dialogues – George Eliot

"Two Georges and an over-sized hand."

"So you can't write dialogue.""Nope. Not at all. Rubbish at it.""Are you sure that it's can't and not don't?" "Can't, don't. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. The stories are all me, me, me. No dialogue because there's...