"She wasn't sure she wanted a FLR, but she quickly got the ropes and wouldn't have it any other way."
The chilled Champagne tingled in her mouth and spread through her with an emboldening power as she relaxed in the warm bath. A wry smile emerged as she surveyed the room. Scented candles, flowers, and warm fluffy towels folded to...
"Would you pick up a lonely female hitchhiker on Halloween?"
It was 1958. Route 66 was in its glory as the primary route from Chicago to Los Angeles. While still in Illinois, shortly after the road passed through Springfield, just outside the small town of McLean, you passed by what...
"Life abruptly changes when a homeless veteran stumbles upon a group of female survivalists."
With flying gravel and a sandy whoosh, Frosty's motorbike cleared the crest of the granite ridge in an airborne glide before skidding to a wobbly stop about a dozen yards down the slope. "It's Alice and Darlene with five guys wearing...
"Life abruptly changes when a homeless veteran stumbles upon a group of female survivalists."
I peeked past Sheila's shoulder as she looked over the semicircle of women from the Science Team gathered around Jennifer as the dark lady of data studied the computer screen in front of her workstation. Her fingers flew across the...
"Two newlyweds meet for a Halloween picnic and a little extra."
How do you explain to your fiancé that there are dark secrets – even ghosts – in your family history? And that some of those ghosts are not fully relegated to the past.It was a crisp, but not cold, end...
"Jenny had watched Angelica for months on the bus"
For several months now I had been fixated by the woman on the bus--always the same bus, there was only one every half hour. I had first noticed her smart business-like appearance; she always had a very expensive-looking suit on....
"Life abruptly changes when a homeless veteran stumbles upon a group of female survivalists."
"We need to talk" is usually the two slices of sweet bread covering a shit sandwich. I have yet to hear those innocent sounding words when they weren't followed by news to which I didn't want to listen.The last time...
"Austin takes Kelly to new heights during a lakeside picnic"
Austin pulled up to Kelly's house in his pickup truck. She wasn't expecting him back from college until next week and he was excited to surprise her. Kelly was finishing her senior year of high school but Austin was two...
"Life abruptly changes when a homeless veteran stumbles upon a group of female survivalists."
My sleep was shattered by three sharp raps which crashed through my slumber like gunshots in a nightmare on the morning of the third day."What the hell!" I hurled myself from my bed, stomped across the floor and jerked open...
"Life abruptly changes when a homeless veteran stumbles upon a group of female survivalists."
Sheila had the soul of a cavalry commander and lived the warrior's code of old. Feed your horses, your troops, and yourself. In that order. Her declaration of a banquet of gratitude was a brazen departure from the typical bullshit...