Lena is drop dead gorgeous; long legs, fashionably thin, green eyes and long curls of flaming red hair. She is bubbly, witty and inconveniently married. Lena's husband, who I call 'Bod', is away on business most of the time. A civil engineer by profession...
"Or" The question, if it was a question was left unfinished. A pause and a glance that said all that needed to be said. Hannah put an arm around each of our waists and pulled us towards her. I looked Tim in the eye and the look on his face said it all: ne...
I hate camping. For thousands of years mankind lived in caves and mud huts. They hated it so much that they spent their time inventing bricks and mortar and running water and electricity. So every summer my parents dragged us off to spend a week in a rain...
To: (Withheld) Date: 2 Feb 1998 At your request I have examined the remaining four chapters and the original book in which the ciphertext is written. As you surmized, the ciphers increase in complexity. The fourth and fifth ciphertexts have resisted the c...
To: (Withheld)From: Byron LordSubject: Your client’s commission As you requested, I examined the material you provided and have succeeded in deciphering it. The cipher used to encrypt the body of the text is a Ceasar cipher using a displacement of 5 lette...
“Come, I’ll show you the garden before we leave.” Ginny grabbed me by the hand and pulled me out of the chair, almost spilling my half-finished cup of coffee. “Be quick, we have to leave here in fifteen minutes.” her mother called out after us, “Your cous...
The day was hot and the camera was heavy round my neck. Much heavier than usual with the 100-300mm Nikkor lens in place of the standard 50mm prime that had come with the camera. The lens weighed almost two pounds, more than double the weight of the camera...
San Francisco at night, in all its neon glory! Rooms with a view cost extra, but the company was paying the bill. After the plane trip from hell I needed a shower and a rest before dinner. I studied the landscape before me as I undressed. There is point p...
It was almost 9pm by the time Kimberly got to the hotel. The male managers had left for the inevitable boozing at a strip joint. As the meeting had dragged on and the prospect of dinner receded further into the future, she had picked at the remains of the...
The drive to Austin was even more annoying than Kimberly expected. The aggravation started on the weekend with the news that the announcement had been moved up to Monday morning forcing Kimberly to begin her drive early Monday morning. But she would still...
Kimberly drove Kath to a motel and paid the attendant. The attendant was not at all surprised to see two women with no luggage take a room. He was more surprised when she left alone a few minutes later. Kath would be a liability. There would be endless co...
Kimberly rapidly adapted to her new routine. It required meticulous planning and execution but the effort was justified by the rewards. She knew must have change. What that change could or should be was the problem. The score sheet painted a dismal pictur...
Reliable, dependable, respectable, Kimberly Parsons was the perfect pastor’s wife. Her course had been set since the tenth grade when Frank Parsons had asked her for a date and she had refused. It was the first time any girl had refused the rising star of...
