"Cass the historian gets a commission"
It has been decided that I shall go to Somerset. I feel myself being torn apart but we must be strong. I shall write whenever I can and, I pray you, write to the usual place and it will reach...
The concept of love is really just a Chimera.Filling the mind and soul with unnerving terror.The Argonauts sailed looking for treasuretheir leader finally taking his pleasure.But what of Colchis's poor Medea All Jason said to her was, " See ya."Most know...
"Thom and Elizabeth discover something secretly hidden by her first husband."
The sisters had been talking in the kitchen for thirty minutes when Elizabeth began wondering what had become of her husband. “Excuse me, Maggie. I need to go see what’s keeping Tommy.”Entering their bedroom, Elizabeth saw that it was empty....
"One soul's search for a mate finally comes to an end."
The creature known as Ishkur watched her from the top of the sandy rise, feasting his eyes on her wild beauty. His position, carefully chosen, overlooked the lonely beach house by the windswept shore. The moon was almost full, casting...
"An interracial love affair in the 60's south as told by 70-year-old woman in flashback"
I sat in the comfort of my home, reflecting on the turbulent aftermath of George Floyd's murder as well as the unending quarantine. The looting bothered me, but I understood the rage. I understood as well as any seventy-year-old white woman...
"Can love conquer in a war torn city?"
The Bomb Shelter Virgin Christmas Eve 1941, Kyiv (Kiev) Russia.Natalya was busying herself peeling vegetables for Christmas day by candlelight. She had not long returned from Christmas Eve mass at the church, the deep cold still in her bones.Dressed in her...
"I needed to pass my college history class in the worst way . .."
I am eighteen and a college freshman and finals are coming up. I am not doing well in my history class, and I am super stressed. I heard through a rumor mill, that the professor will up a grade of...
"Franklyn goes on a journey of self discovery..."
Ayman took me to an ancient part of town. He had to park the car and walk as the stone alleys were so narrow that even the sun couldn’t get down into the labyrinth of warrens and dens, shops and...
"An elderly woman recalls sex, drugs and R&Road at Woodstock on its 50th anniversary"
"It was fifty years ago today." I paraphrase them, but the Beatles weren't at Woodstock. But I was. A spry, music-loving eighteen-year-old from Western Kentucky. Even my hippy parents wanted to go, but being elderly and in their forties (how...
"Short sweet tale of compassion and love beating hate..."
With months of watching and days of riding through the Great Plains,through the seasons and Christmas time, when snow was falling.It was now May 18th, just a couple of days before bank holiday Monday;even before then did Cindy Silver Buckle...
