As dusk settled over the house, there was a curious calm in the air. He’d been waiting for her for what felt like hours, and the more time that passed, the less intensely the rage pulsed within him. This, in itself, was an irritation. When he first realiz...
It was a moment of weaknessYou caught me in;It was nothing but a frenzy of emotion,Taking me down.Yet you think so much of yourself now,Don’t you?You see it as a coup,When it was nothing more Than good timing for you(And the worst of it for me).Trying to...
(Because I tend to set my stories up rather thoroughly in the beginning, I definitely recommend reading Part One first for the back story) Only a few short hours passed since 19 year-old Riley found herself caught in the midst of a fierce February blizzar...
As the freezing, tempestuous wind whistled through the uninsulated crack in the passenger door of her older model Honda, Riley realized she had little choice. She was stuck here, hundreds of miles from her home, in her broken down little hatchback in the...
I was a nothingFor you,Perhaps a stone.Slate for you to tread uponThrough your journey to places unknown.Your feet scuffed at my surface,And your weight pushed me further into mudIn the rolling river you were crossingAs you arrogantly assumed my love....b...
His was not a unique perversion, but it was one that brought him considerable shame. Brendon was in love with a woman and, though he knew it was dangerous folly, the more he tried to talk himself out of it the more deeply wrapped within her he felt. It wa...
You Can Never Go Back Scant hours had passed since two former lovers, Alexander and Carrie, found each other in the local library, a moment where divine providence tipped its allegorical hat and offered a chance at righting monumental wrongs. For Alex, ru...
(This is a novella and, therefore, isn't going to be an abbreviated bump-and-rush, as stories go. Patience is a wonderful, rare virtue in a reader; rest assured, those with it will be happily rewarded.) They were in the library when she saw him. She could...
He came to me with soft, careful words, And I took him.He brought to me the touch of a blissful lover, And I felt him. He kissed my skin and stirred its desire, And I laid myself down for him. He captured my heart and fed my soul, And I fell for him. And,...
Whispers waft through a tepid summer air. A laugh, a splash, the muffled sounds of tongue greeting tongue, And body yielding to body. The dark of night defiantly affronted with brash yellow glow, The illumination of a street lamp threatening to reveal...
We met through an online ad, which, by today’s standards, is neither surprising nor uncommon. But this was some years ago, and I was as hesitant about answering her ad as she was about placing it. The fact that I DID was, as it turned out, nothing short o...
He watched her with furtive eyes…the eyes of a calculated man. She came to this bar every night around the same time, and every night she looked woefully out of place in her delicate blouses, shapely business suits, and long legs perfectly complimented by...
