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happyjack

Love Nest

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 9

For the next few weeks, she was with Justin most of the time. She met him in the afternoon, in town or in the park, and then they went back to hers. She met the girls in The Ship and he arrived later. Then she had an offer of somewhere to live.  She was standing at the bar in The Ship and Beverley was next to her. "I'm going away, just for a while,” she said. "I've got a summer job abroad....Read On

Added: 17 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 3,053 | Tags: love  tension  argument  

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Fuel Season 2: Episode 29 – Tempered Fury

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

While Jim enjoys playing reserve with his rosebuds, a temper tantrum catches his attention...

17th of May – Season 2 When Jim Kieck pulled into the Fuel Speedway parking lot, he was smiling. Why wouldn't he be when he had three beautiful women as passengers in his convertible. Jim was wary of the fans that were eying him suspiciously, but he purposefully took note of one racer who didn't approve at all. "Something wrong, Stevie?" Jim, now with a lady under each arm and...Read On

Added: 15 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,907 | Tags: anger issues  fury  challenge day off  racing  motorsports  soap opera  south african  

Lev821

First Born

Getting to see his child grown-up in the future is something he'll wish he'd never seen.

He squeezed his eyes tight and placed his palm over his ear in a vain attempt to shut out the noise that felt like a hammer blow to his brain each time it ricocheted into the bedroom. He lay in his bed, in the darkness, facing the window, the warmth of the duvet cocooning him like a caterpillar. Rain lashed the window, and thunder rumbled away in the distance, but the shed door continued to...Read On

Added: 14 May 2021 | Category: Horror | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,401 | Tags: short story  horror  fiction  drama  thriller  crime  blood   | 1 Comment

happyjack

Strawberry Milkshake

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 8

A few days later, Cindy saw an old boyfriend David in town. They went out together for a while a few years before. It was a short but intense relationship, until it fizzled out in the explosion of its own passion. There had always been a connection between them and, since then, they had got together whenever they had seen each other, on a strictly no-commitment basis. That suited her fine....Read On

Added: 12 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,788 | Tags: meeting  ex  cafe  

CleverFox

The Baby Races

Harm came to no babies in this story.

The actions of this story took place on Easter of 1988. I was attending The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. My oldest brother Tony, his wife and his one-year-old son, John, lived in Columbus and I had caught a ride with them to our parents’ home for the Holiday.  All of my siblings, their significant others and their children were going to be at my household to celebrate the...Read On

Added: 12 May 2021 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 536 | Tags: babies   | 3 Comments

WriterGirl

The Monster Within (Part 4)

Can Vincent finally find peace?

December 1999… I awoke about a decade ago, and had continued my exploration of America. I, however, felt an irresistible pull to the south. Unable to fight it and unsure of what awaited me, I found myself in New Orleans. Can blood drain from the face of a vampire? It certainly felt like it. Standing inside the art gallery in New Orleans, I was shocked into immobility, unable to move...Read On

Added: 10 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,144 | Tags: vampires  new orleans  searching  acceptance  reconciliation   | 3 Comments

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Fuel Season 2: Episode 28 – The Bad Omen

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

Blackcat sets his eyes on the upcoming big time relay race while contemplating his new teammate...

10th of May – Season 2 The one part of his craft that Blackcat had found hard to grasp at first was animal symbolism. The original Master Spell-Castor had found this ironic considering the name he'd chosen as his own: Blackcat. Eventually, he'd mastered his lessons in symbolism which was why he'd found himself currently fascinated with the raven.   FRUSTRATIONS OF A KING ...Read On

Added: 10 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,285 | Tags: occultism  witchcraft  omens  old friends  racing  motorsports  soap opera  

happyjack

Out On The Floor

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 7

There was a big night every Monday at Ritzi. People came from all over. The girls had made it a regular night and Cindy had agreed to meet Justin in there. They went to The Ship first as they always did. They stood at the bar and had a few drinks. Then they went to the wine bar where they did the same. Cindy checked her reflection while she was there, for meeting Justin later. When the bar...Read On

Added: 10 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,208 | Tags: nightclub  argument  row  

AnnaMayZing

The Long Road Home. Chapter 31.

What she saw shocked her. The once busy streets were strewn with rubble.

Berlin, February 14 th 1945   It was a tired and very nervous young woman who walked away from the supplies truck. Katarina felt that it was better not to be associated with the young man who had stolen it. She had enough trouble before she left, almost five years before. To her, though, it felt a lifetime. In that five years, the whole world had changed, and everything she knew...Read On

Added: 05 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,386 | Tags: ww2  history  fiction   | 5 Comments

actung

Cynthia

Rosa went upstairs to check on Karen to find her on her knees in her bedroom apparently playing with someone who wasn’t actually there. Having been a nanny for many years Rosa didn’t see any harm in the fact that a nine-year-old had an imaginary friend, it has been something she had seen on a number of occasions and if no good ever came from it before then Rosa was unaware of that no good....Read On

Added: 05 May 2021 | Category: General | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 2,314 | Tags: doubled  

WriterGirl

The Monster Within (Part 3)

Vincent continues his journey into a new century...

Damn me, God! I hadn’t meant to kill him — or had I? After wandering the streets for God knows how long, the events continued to swirl inside my head as I struggled to settle upon one emotion. Since the unfortunate incident, I had been racked with hurt, rage, shame and guilt. An innocent tree bore the brunt of my frustration with its trunk stained red from my pounding, bloody fists. My...Read On

Added: 04 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,621 | Tags: vampire  england  florence  vienna  sigmund freud  bram stoker   | 2 Comments

Lynara

Protecting Luna-Chapter Two: Luna's Awakening

Series: The Trials of Hope Chronicles

Tara awakens in the Bloodraven Pack Hospital.

Tara woke to the constant beep of the heart monitor. She looked around the small, whitewashed room that blinded her light-sensitive eyes to the bright LED lights. She turned her head slowly, feeling the soft linen bandages wrapped tightly around her chest, hiding the nasty scars from her view. She felt like shedding a tear, knowing that someone had seen the evidence of her abuse, but none...Read On

Added: 04 May 2021 | Category: Supernatural | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,504 | Tags: werewolf  fantasy  romance   | 4 Comments

happyjack

Standing By The Record Machine

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 6

Then it was here again. Clubbing time. Dancing time. It was time to get out and have another party. There was a heatwave over the next few days, a proper one, the sort where you could almost kid yourself you were living somewhere tropical and glamorous, and not a small town in the middle of England. The Ship was packed tonight. Absolutely rammed. It was the last day of exams for some of...Read On

Added: 03 May 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,371 | Tags: romance  club  party  

actung

Confession

‘Forgive me father for I have sinned...’ Father Joe usually took confession on a Friday evening and on one certain Friday in particular his first confession would also be his last of the evening. This one confession stunned him so to the point that he would not be able to continue on taking more. It would take him to his own past and also have him question his future. ‘...Twenty-five...Read On

Added: 02 May 2021 | Category: General | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,350 | Tags: loss   | 1 Comment

happyjack

Down To Earth And Back Again

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 5

Cindy went back to work the following week. To start with, it all seemed to be going well. Then reality came back to bite. Hard. The other world came to say hello. She got a dressing down. She had been a naughty girl, that was as good as what her boss said. She’d had too many days "off sick.” Someone had seen her with Fab. Thank you to whoever it was, she thought, as she defiantly walked out...Read On

Added: 29 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,698 | Tags: work  summer  park  party  

actung

Creep

The worst thing about being an executive of any business in a time of recession is when it is decided that the necessary cutbacks are to be job losses, especially when one of the unfortunate employees is a friend or even a neighbour or even someone who is both. This morning I had to let Arthur Dempsey go. Arthur is in his late fifties, even though he is well experienced and very dependable,...Read On

Added: 28 Apr 2021 | Category: General | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,655 | Tags: on-coming   | 1 Comment

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Fuel Season 2: Episode 27 – Ride Together, Die Together

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

For the 1st time in the series, ride along with Longs and Lats as they get another shot at glory...

3rd of May – Season 2 Latitude was booking it, sprinting across the road, almost getting hit by a car. But he didn't care... he needed to get him back! The person who took him entered an apartment building across the street and was moving so fast he went right through a glass door. Finding himself trapped, the person bolted for the stairs and ran all the way up to the roof four stories...Read On

Added: 27 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 1,757 | Tags: brothers  friends  teammates  bad boys  racing  motorsports  soap opera  

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Ghosts of Cheyenne Mountain

They left the greatest military installation in the world unguarded?

“It’s all lies,” Seth told us, as he passed the joint to Cam. “The government will never tell you anything important.” Seth and Cam and Kyle huddled in the shadows of Cheyenne Mountain military base, partying, telling conspiracy theories as if they were ghost stories. Civilians could not enter the actual Cheyenne Mountain military base, but the city had built a public park below the...Read On

Added: 26 Apr 2021 | Category: Science Fiction | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 7,766 | Tags: military  drug use  norad  hollow earth  tentacles   | 3 Comments

WriterGirl

The Monster Within (Part 2)

Vincent tells his story of how a good man became a monster...

I felt quite good to have ridden the city of a filthy vermin, yet I needed to see my sweet Elizabeth in order to feel more man than beast again. Only the touch of her creamy flesh would expunge the violent death from my hands. I was desperate to see her flawless face before me; it was the only thing that would help erase the sickening vision of the filth I had just eliminated. I need...Read On

Added: 25 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 4,319 | Tags: vampire  florence  origins  leonardo da vinci  renaissance   | 5 Comments

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Sunday Night Easter [S2] – A Fuel Story

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

In the last stop to the biggest event on the F-X Calendar, the racers look for one last major win

2 4th of April –Season 2 As Toney Kunene – one of Formula-X's four resident reporters – sat in her car awaiting the pay-per-view racing event to start, she contemplated the night ahead and the work cut out for her, and for once , she was kind of glad that her ex-husband, Temper, was involved in the franchise because it meant her daughter, Katlego could come to the event with...Read On

Added: 25 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,959 | Tags: last chance  easter  racing  motorsports  soap opera  south african  

happyjack

Call Me Fabulous

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 4

There was a postcard from Greg. It arrived that morning. He was in Paris. Where else? The land of poets and dreamers. It was lying on the side when she got home from work. There was a picture of the Eiffel Tower on the front. She turned it over. "Hi Cindy,” he had written. "Having a great time. Been here a couple of days, off further south next. Wish you were with me. Hope you're having...Read On

Added: 25 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,996 | Tags: rockandroll  gig  romance   | 1 Comment

Lynara

Protecting Luna-Chapter One: Alpha's Return

Series: The Trials of Hope Chronicles

An Alpha finds his Mate, but she is pursued by a rival.

Robert slowly walked along the gravel road with soft crunching under his boots. He walked throughout the night, listening to the quiet night music drifting from the marshy fields around the creek and the dense cedar forest. Robert smelt the refreshing floral scents wafting on the gentle breeze. Robert allowed himself to relax as he felt the slight resistance. “I, Robert Silver-bane, return...Read On

Added: 24 Apr 2021 | Category: Supernatural | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,135 | Tags: werewolf  fantasy  romance   | 10 Comments

WriterGirl

The Monster Within (Part 1)

How does one live with unquenchable thirst?

The early 1800s ... This time, I settled in Paris, adopting the French derivative of my name — Vincent . With its dense population, narrow streets, and dark crevices, Paris suited my needs perfectly, allowing one such as myself a myriad of places to lurk during these unsettled times. I had grown bored of occupying my time with philosophy and the arts of the Renaissance centuries before....Read On

Added: 23 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 3,659 | Tags: vampire  jack the ripper  paris  london  1800s   | 6 Comments

actung

Butterfly

If you are going to become a butterfly and learn to float through the air, then you first must be the caterpillar and learn how to crawl. One can't simply just be a butterfly. Be the caterpillar, keep your head down, work hard, and dream big then one day, one day if the universe allows it, the time will come where you will open your wings and you will take to the skies. Big Bill was not...Read On

Added: 23 Apr 2021 | Category: General | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,205 | Tags: home   | 1 Comment

happyjack

The Week Kicks In

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 3

The assault of Monday morning came too quickly. As she walked through town, on her way to work, Cindy again started to feel a little guilty about the events of the weekend. But not too much. She knew what Greg was like. He had about as much moral compass as “that Profumo bloke.” Boys would be boys and all that. Why shouldn’t she do the same as him? It made going back to work that much more of...Read On

Added: 23 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,076 | Tags: office  week  boredom   | 1 Comment

WriterGirl

Escaping the Concrete Jungle

My monochrome life. Shrill beeps are always the first sounds my ears hear, followed by an illogical frenzy to get ready to meet another shades-of-grey day. Toes painfully cramped in their black shoe cages pound the cold, grey concrete. A darker grey building towers over me reminding me of my smallness. Once inside, banker clones brush past me in their dark suits, cramming into every...Read On

Added: 21 Apr 2021 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 246 | Tags: nature  mindfulness   | 8 Comments

actung

Severed

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result so maybe I am insane for no matter how I protest my innocence I am still going on trial, and my trial begins today. Insanity is the state of being seriously mentally ill, it can be described as extreme foolishness or irrationality but no matter what description or definition can be given,...Read On

Added: 21 Apr 2021 | Category: Horror | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,089 | Tags: confusion   | 2 Comments

actung

The Package

'I am finally gonna get to come out your way.' Paul smiled as the words appeared on his computer screen, still, even though he liked what he read, he didn't quite believe the words and it would take a moment or two for him to adapt to the statement as being something of fact and not an empty promise or a promise that may not come to be, but this was something which was actually going to...Read On

Added: 19 Apr 2021 | Category: General | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,620 | Tags: unknown   | 2 Comments

happyjack

Party Time

Series: The Adventures Of Cindy George

Chapter 2

So Greg had gone. Finally.  Cindy had seen him off at the station that afternoon.  This had been coming so long it was almost a relief it was over. He looked happy as he leaned out of the window of the train as it pulled off, a smile on his face. He was clearly excited by it all, a huge tour around Europe, and who knew where else, with no end date. Lucky boy, thought Cindy, we'd all like...Read On

Added: 16 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 2,317 | Tags: party  freedom  romance   | 2 Comments

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Fuel Season 2: Episode 26 – The Black Tantrum

Series: Stories of the Fuel Speedway

Stevie finds herself in the cross-hairs of the hot-headed newest racer in the series: Temper Kunene

19th of April – Season 2 Themba 'Temper' Kunene had never expected his life to turn out the way it had. As a forty-five-year-old man, the last thing he ever expected was to get a shot at living his dream as an open-wheel racer. But if his ex-wife could reclaim her career, then why couldn't he? It was just a cruel twist of fate that they'd do it at the same place. Currently, Temper...Read On

Added: 16 Apr 2021 | Category: Drama | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,886 | Tags: villain  rivals  challenge  racing  motorsports  soap opera  south african   | 1 Comment