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For All Those Whom We Love and Value - Chapter Three
Prologue Chapter One Read the previous chapter here... Phoebe paced in the small sitting room she shared with the spinster who let the room on the other side, having been driven from the confines of her own room by sheer nerves.
By Natasja Rose3 years ago in Chapters
Blackbird Fly. Top Story - January 2024.
The Basket It's a Monday evening on May 24, 1965. It was slightly chilly with a light breeze blowing. A young lady wearing a long overcoat with her face covered by a scarf walked up to the Fire Department in Anaheim, CA on Ball Road carrying a small basket with a blanket covering the top. It was around 7:00 pm and the activity in the area was light. She walked up the sidewalk to the entrance of the fire station and she left a small basket near the door then quickly walked away around the corner to her car and drove away.
By Rick Henry Christopher 3 years ago in Chapters
Remember the Past... - Chapter One
Read the Prologue here: On a lazy autumn afternoon, not long before luncheon, the relative peace of Longbourn was shattered by Mama's return from seeing off Mrs Long and Aunt Phillips, who had been visiting. "Oh, my dear girls, have you heard? Netherfield Park is let at last!"
By Natasja Rose3 years ago in Chapters
For All Whom We Love and Value - Chapter One
Read the Prologue here The White was an excellent ship, in Phoebe's admittedly very limited experience. She was Captained by Admiral Croft, a good-humored man promoted after the Trafalgar action some years ago and stationed in India ever since. Phoebe had encountered the Admiral and his wife at a party some years ago, where Mrs Croft had been praised openly as the kind of Naval wife one wanted aboard a ship, and in whispered rumours as half the reason the White had so few dicipline problems among the newer sailors, compared to other ships of its kind. Mrs Croft was as kind and good natured as her husband, but Phoebe had seen her silence a young Midshipman, who had been so ill-mannered as to whistle at another young lady on the docks, with no more than a quelling glare.
By Natasja Rose4 years ago in Chapters
How to Claim a Life
We bought a chess game; A beautiful mahogany, handcrafted coffee-table-conversation-piece that was to be my first step at backing away from this exhausting digital life we're all plugged into. Of course, the first thing I wanted to do was take a picture of how beautiful it looked in our living room and share it for the world to see. Alas, I refrained.
By Christina Hunter4 years ago in Chapters
For All Those Whom We Love And Value - Prologue
The air was hot and fragrant, filled with the scent of the spices and incense being sold in the marketplace, or loaded onto ships of the EITC, destined for faraway lands, and heavy with the humidity common to this time of year.
By Natasja Rose4 years ago in Chapters
Desert Dealings
The inn of Gadgetzan was dim and smoky, reminding the blood elf seated at one of the long tables of an ogre den somewhere in the ruins of Alterac, where once--when he was a much younger man--he had excavated for iron. He sipped absently at a cup of something fermented. He couldn't put a finger the name of it at the moment, and what it was slowly doing to his lower intestine was just as unknowable. He watched the door though, blowing an ungentlemanly burp out of the side of his mouth, waiting for his contact.
By Ashley McGee4 years ago in Chapters
Vayda - Chapter One
It was spring, the time of new birth and relentless rain, when Vayda took her first, full breath. She felt the dusty air of the stagnant lab circulate through her nostrils toward her empty lungs and she felt her chest expand. It was an unknown feeling that her body had never experienced before: breathing. There was never a need to breathe under the care of her Mechanical Opulence Maker, or MOM. During the early stages of her life, the machines did all of her living and breathing for her. Now, during this crucial phase, she either had to take over herself, or die.
By Madison "Maddy" Newton4 years ago in Chapters
