Escape. Life has gotten too unexpected, too hard. I need an escape. He died. He left me here alone. It wasn’t in the plan. He is dead. Days have passed, and my bed is now empty. It doesn't feel real. Escape. Standing next to his stupidly big truck at a gas station, I fill the tank with insanely priced gas. In the back seat sits a backpack with barely anything in it. My need to get out overwhelmed any rational thought. He’...
It had been a long, hot day of picking and planting in the blazing sun when trouble came running over the hill. With locks as red as the devil’s tail a flowing and titties shifting from side to side, she said, “Come on James. I’ve had my eyes on you. Come with me,” as she grabbed my hand and rushed me to the tool shed. And I went, even though I knew there would be trouble. She was the lady of the house, Sally Grimes, the...
My police interrogators used the hackneyed ‘good cop, bad cop’ technique at my three interviews. “Didn’t you realise how dangerous it was to go bathing in the lake after dark?” “Why was Mrs Reinhart-Hernandez not wearing any clothes?” “Had you both been drinking?” “Why didn’t you report the accident; there are numerous Help Point telephones located in Green Park?” I certainly got off extremely lightly at the Inquest. Alth...
Chapter Six – The White Cliffs of Dover Danielle awoke and was initially unaware of where she was and why she was here. Then she recalled that she was in Katerina’s flat on Munchener Strasse and the awful events that had predicated her arrival here. Tears filled her eyes as she recalled how Steven had sacrificed himself so that she and Katerina could escape. She rolled over looking for comfort but Katerina was gone; her...
Chapter Five – Subtleties and Nuances Steven awoke first to find Danielle snuggled up to him; she still wore her stockings and he couldn’t resist running his hands over her legs, rubbing her negligee against her stocking-clad thigh. Danielle stirred and he moved his hand to her groin and caressed her morning erection, feeling the girth of her through the nylon slip and satin panties. His whole attitude towards Danielle h...
Chapter Four – Over The Wire “How did you get this Intelligence. You were in his bedroom? He fucked you didn’t he?” once again Steven could not control his petulance. Danielle had been summoned to present the intelligence she had gained at the Oberst's house during the dinner the previous night. Wing Commander Smyth-Waddington had been angry with her for taking the interlude with Oberst Wessel. He was not naïve; he kn...
Chapter Three – Oberst Kurt Wessel “For god's sake will you two at least pretend that you like each other,” Benny was exasperated. Danielle and Steven both had their roles down pat and had mastered all of the scenes, especially the scenes where they argued or fought, but their love scenes were awful. They held each other apart and pecked each other chastely. “I’ve told you that I’ll fire you and put in the understudies...
Chapter One – Benny’s Girls When the train slowed the young woman stood and took her small suitcase down from the overhead baggage rack. A young soldier across the aisle leapt out of his seat to assist but she already had the case resting on the vacant seat across from her. She smiled appreciatively at him and he sat back down. She took a compact out of her purse and freshened her makeup and touched up her lipstick; she b...
Snowflakes melt on my face as I numbly trudge through the ever-deeper cover of cotton-like snow. I give a silent prayer to the Gods for the cold. Else I would never have gotten this far. I reach a patch of windswept land and up my pace. A backward glance tells me my pursuers are lagging behind. This is my territory. My terrain. I know how to make friends with the spirits of ice and rock. Not far now. The glacier sits just...
"Why are the Gods so angry with us?" Olivia screamed into the deafening roar around us.“We will all die before the day is out.” Clenched fists, she screamed again at the heavens.I wondered why I was there too, to make money I suppose; the city had been shaken by the gods for weeks, now hardly any buildings of note were undamaged. The city elders wanted surveyors to advise them and I planned to make my fortune. Now, standi...
Each night beneath the kindly moon’s soft radiance We make again that joyful connection of love Vulnerable in our emotional nakedness As we bare the most profound feelings of our hearts All too soon the hour of parting is upon us Catching us unaware in our communion The whistle of the passing train is the sad signal That we must reluctantly say goodnight, sweet dreams Come away with me on a romantic adventure And succumb...
You chased it awayBut it’s back You smothered its breathIt just laughed You headed to sea in a boatBut tossed overboard, saw it float You burned it alive but it roseYou buried it deep, but it grows You prayed for reliefNo avail You reasoned and pleadKeened and wailed What is this thing that won’t leave?Why can you get no relief? The reason there’s no place to hide?You can’t run from what is inside It will fight you until...
Whispers and screams, sound in my dreams, My tears get stuck in my throat. I reach out my hand, clutching quicksand, While he sits and laughs as he gloats. And most never know, though they know me so. They feel that my life must be grand. But it’s only because I, live a talented lie, Pretty smiles, laughs and grins on demand. When I was young, I thought he’d become, The person I knew he could be. But now, years have passe...
I saw you weakAnd hated youThe way you clung to meYour need so claustrophobicI could barely breathe And yet I felt responsibleNot able to break freeEach time that I would take a stepYour grasp dug into me As though I held the key to youAs though you lived through me You feared that I’d abandon youYou said you’d take your life I’ve become indenturedTo care for you just likeYou were my child and helplessNot partners in a li...
Glen put in his eight hours driving and pulled into another truck stop. He fueled up and backed his rig into a parking space at the back of the lot. He turns to Jeanie, "Okay Jeanie we have a restaurant and a motel and a Subway. We can eat in the restaurant or at Subway and I'll get you a room in the motel. That way you can have a shower and a comfy bed." Jeanie rolls her eyes at him. "Sure and then you can run off and le...
