The Temptation Of Coffee

"'We all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.’ - Richelle E. Goodrich"

The unctuous sales pitch droned on and on; the view’s fantastic, the location amazing, nothing like it on our books, yadda yadda yadda.Seething, a sarcastic ‘shaddap your face’ nearly escaped, for cloying words don’t suck me in. Those pristine silica...

Arabella And The Author

"You can learn a lot about a person in the briefest of moments."

“Turn...around,” he says slowly, sternly. He is seated, not far from her, watching with avid intent. She doesn’t move, just stands there staring back at him. Frozen. Intimidated.With a downward angling index finger, he makes a swirling motion as if to...

Football Game Night

"Dani puts everything on the line for the game and her team."

"Wait, what?""You heard me, unless you're afraid," she said teasingly. "I would understand that coming from you, not to mention your sorry-ass third-string Broncos."Dani's proposal caught me off-guard. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did.It will help to have a...

We Women Will Ride

"“In our darkest hour, the Gods imbued five heroines ..." Percales, History of the Pergamon People"

My life’s flame is flickering; that candle has burnt brightly, but the wick nears the end. And when I, Ana, the last of Percales’ so-called heroines enter the afterlife, then, my friends, then what will you remember of us?Percales has...