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A touchstone, our sometime inspiration, inexorably winds its way down to the finish.  We lament our loss, And we raise a toast i...

Jorge found Celestine's appetite titillating, but he knew that what he had in his head would never satisfy her. Her desires were beyond ...

My lackadaisical efforts at dressing should have been a dead giveaway. Here I was, playing the fashion victim while grocery shopping for bee...

"I hate you."  Melanie stood in the doorway of her sister's room, her fists clenched.  "You sold Mary Jane." ...

Jericho Jones stepped out of the rain and into the cramped bookstore, and took a moment to slick his wet hair out of his face and pull a rub...

The first time I saw love-- it was in one small hand, with a firm grasp, held fast in mine. That bright smile, that sweet face, that trust....

A continuation of a story I started here .  Concrit is most welcome. Cadence Wilkerson was in Paris, passing the time at a street cafe, w...

The Matriarch, Granny Wilkerson, only stirred the iron cauldron once a year, but the spell she cast with those unknown spices was legendary ...

Elise and her Grandma were comfortably snuggled on the couch, an old plaid blanket covering their legs.  Grandma said that it would help lig...

"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee..."  The minister droned on, and Cassie barely restrained herse...

It's hard to watch your parents grow old, Carl thought. He sighed, and wiped the drool from his mother's chin. He moved her chair cl...

"What brings you to see me this morning, Mrs. Bettelheim?" Dr. Clark held his pen over his clipboard and looked over his glasses a...

The mark sat by himself at a lovely table near the window, a glass of a pretentious chardonnay in his hand.  Clare nodded to herself from he...

This is the worst day of my life, Stephanie thought.  It was likely the worst day of anyone's life, but most certainly the worst for her...

She thought that it would be different.  Feel different, at least.  But she felt nothing. Nothing at all. Elisa hugged her knees to her ches...

"It seemed harmless.  Benign.  Beneficial, even!  It could bring nothing but good to humanity, four out of five scientists agreed. The...

The second best day in Carly Joe Patterson's life began with the arrival of a lawyer.  She was in her new pajamas, sipping coffee on the...

The best day of Carly Joe Patterson's life began when a piece of oil rigging fell on her lying cheater of a husband. Carly was in the ki...

We separated the body parts, tossing them out the window at random intervals along our drive across country. The heart and other viscera we ...

Mr. Matthias of Matthias Talents, Inc., strolled up the driveway from the road, as if he were simply admiring the green glass jars perched p...