Archive for February, 2010

The gate closed with a creak and a squeak as Tristam relocked it. “Scram, Beech.” The dog bounded off into the darkness, apparently quite untroubled by the darkness or the spluttering rain. The trees and bushs were still banging angrily against each other, their movement traced around the perimeter of the park by the flickering [...]

OK, Anita, he’s all yours. Toni. PPS. I’m backtracking a hundred bucks off my accumulated bill for every act of gross indecency you commit with my dog person. I’ve told Tristan to carve the notches on your bedhead so there’ll be no accounting arguments. Chou! After carefully reading and digesting the file Anita came to [...]

“Surely.” She took the bowl from his hand. “You’re British, Tristan?” “Ah, well. British by passport, Scottish by nationality and forever and always an Orcadian.” “Orcady – is that a place in Scotland?” Tristan smiled and patted Beech’s head as the dog began gobbling up the biscuits: “An Orcadian is someone who lives on the [...]

“OK.” Privately, Anita was wondering how she’d managed to become a lawyer at all if she could be sweet talked into such a stupid deal. Conned by a client! It was a disgrace. Even the passage of several hours and the solace of a martini did little to sooth Anita’s irritation with herself. A fine [...]

Toni Lindroth, once Toni La Rocca and now Toni Lindroth again, passed the last of the newly signed documents back across the desk. “Is that it?” Anita Ruger, her counsellor in law, nodded. “All signed, sealed and delivered. Your divorce is final and you’re a free woman again. Welcome to all the joys of being [...]

I looked out the window of the hospital room. It was dark. A good night’s sleep is just what the doctor ordered, I thought. There wasn’t really much to do, and there was nothing really physically wrong with me. I was there for an annual check up, and my doctor said the tests would go [...]

The thought of his lips on her clit sent a buzz through her belly and up her spine — like sexual thoughts had intoxicated her mind when she was a teenager. But she was no longer a teenager. Professor Sherry looked in the mirror in the restroom before she walked back to her class. She [...]