"Jack and Becky come dangerously closer even among company..."
Seeing the twin horse-driven polished box-like carriage heading up the main drive, Jack Wetherly knew exactly what it contained. His heart gave a heave, knowing that this was his new challenge, arriving with two long-coated men sitting upfront. Excitedly, he...
"While restoring an old farmhouse. Kerri has an encounter with a ghost."
Kerri was almost ready to flip her fourth house. The first one had made only a marginal profit due to some unforeseen issues that had cost both time and money. But she had learned some valuables lessons, and more importantly,...
"Jack, expecting trouble, gets a surprise and Becky gives her special apology."
Standing at the back door of Brandling Manor, Jack Wetherly could not recall a time when he had felt so uneasy. He had just been told by the stuffy butler, Vincent, that Sir Oswald Brandling was demanding to see him....
"Jack and Becky continue their secret affair"
Sunday had arrived at last, and the weather was set fair, for which Jack Wetherly was grateful. Aunt Rose had placed a breakfast of bread and dripping in front of him together with the tea, that only Aunt Rose could...
"If a king is chosen by God as the voice for God, can he ever be wrong?"
King David sat at his Harp, gently plucking at the strings. His nimble fingers finding their notes with precision. He had now been playing the harp for as many years as the greatest harpist in any of the nations around...
"Apprentice ostler ignores warnings in associating with a rebellious upper class young lady."
Having spent the morning tending to the horses and cleaning out each of the ten occupied stalls, Jack Wetherly, apprentice ostler on the Brandling estate, closed the large stable doors. The rough mix of straw, hay and horse shit was...
"Royal princess thwarts father's wishes and discovers love"
The head eunuch entered my quarters, bowed, and excused himself for arriving unannounced. “Princess Jasmin, your father requests your presence at dinner tonight.”“Does he?”“He requests that you make yourself the most beautiful you can and also requests that you borrow...
"Take Pride in the way you have lived your life"
"It was a green heron. I'm sure of it. I was strolling along towards the embankment and then saw it standing in the water. I stopped to look. It was having none of that. It flew away. But I'm certain it was a...
"Marion protects her lover by humiliating sacrifice"
They had almost made it. Almost. Now, though, Marion was tied spread-eagle in a frame, naked; facing Willum, her new husband, who was similarly bound.Her troubles were manifold, not the least of which was that whilst she was newly married...
"One possible explantation of our heritage. A 1000-word story."
They lay, entwined, with arms and legs clasping each other, sharing the afterglow that their sex always gave them.The dark was complete now, total blackness, leaving their sense of sight useless. They had watched the embers of the fire wink...