The lieutenant sat in an antique armchair that would one day be destroyed, along with the hotel, by the purifying blast of a bomb. But on that night, in that singular moment, everything in the room still possessed an existence, however tentative, an existence innocent...
My bowel movements should be so regular. Every other Friday afternoon, I get anxious. Anxious to see my kids again, anxious to squeeze in as much "parenting time" as I can in forty-eight hours, anxious to get those painful good-byes and tears over with at 6 PM Sunday,...
Of course my favourite colour is black. What did you expect? Red? Red is for hunger. Red will be the colour of my eyes after I've sated myself on your delectable blood, my darling correspondent. Red is a meal. Do you sport a rare filet mignon as an evening gown? I'm...
Morgan and Linda dropped off their friends and neighbors at the curbside in front of their home. "Think about it, okay?" Sally said, and waved. Linda waved back, then Morgan drove three doors down and pulled into their own driveway. Neither Linda nor Morgan made a...
Mariel told him to open it when he was alone, in that sexy French accent that made it sound like the gift was something secret, something personal. She'd given it to him at their last dinner. She was all dolled up in a low-cut green silk dress that showed off her...
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." —Anais Nin "Bid my blood to run." —From Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" (Fallen DVD) Professors Maria Suarez and Vilasrao Bannerjee relaxed in the former's...
"Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God...When you make a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools; pay that which you vow. Better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay....
I'm fucking my best friend's wife. I know I'm going to hell. We both are. Tammy loves Brad, and I think he's the best guy in the world. But we can't help ourselves. Whenever I get within ten feet of her, my cock gets hard, and Tammy says I'm the only man who fucks her...
The Abbey of Saint Blaise hunkered on the edge of a bluff above the village at the edge of the Adirondacks, but one approached it from the flank along a roadway just out of sight of the gothic-grotesque monstrosity. There was one final bend of the road before the...
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned." On the other end of the vid line I heard a small sigh. The view screen showed nothing but the grille pattern signifying the confidentiality of the confessional call-in line. Even so, I knew who waited on the other end. Father...