It had been decided I’d be the one to go on an exchange to Jamaica. That news hadn’t come as a great shock to me. Every year, the GSG 9 and the Jamaica Defence Force did an exchange. It had been a hassle to find someone—most were married, families, children. Since Beast and Fleur were […]
Speak now, or forever shut the fuck up.” Khloe laughs at her twin’s remark, her shoulders shaking from the force of her mirth. I’m sure she’s used to Kayla’s sense of humor. Meanwhile, I cringe inwardly. It’s not the first time Kayla has said something like that and I know it won’t be the last. […]
I carefully swiped at the dried blood behind Graven’s collar. While my skin had long since turned into a mass of scar tissue, Graven’s wouldn’t toughen up. He bled every time the chains on his collar were yanked, which was often. “I’m fine,” he grumbled, but his face pinched with pain and he wouldn’t meet […]
Sarah Flynn prided herself on not being easily rattled. But after a couple of hours aboard a flimsy excuse for a ship, with constant turbulence thrashing her around the cabin and making her bad leg ache, she was starting to question every decision that had brought her here. Justice, Sarah, she reminded herself firmly. Justice […]
Damn, that woman’s going to be the death of me. Why can’t she be the elderly Aunt Polly I pictured in my mind? Zane couldn’t find Missy’s aunt Polly anywhere. When he arrived in Tennessee, he went straight to the concert where Missy told him her aunt would be. Zane walked around checking every elderly […]
Chelsea Montrose’s hands shook. There had been a time when she wistfully gazed at the gleaming lake and marveled at its sapphire beauty. Even when storms swept in and made it a calamitous mess, her wonder never faded. Her favorite was in the depths of winter when great waves would freeze, leaving walls of ice […]
ONCE UPON A time, there was a beautiful princess. She was a tad vain and spoiled, but aren’t all princesses? To be honest, she wasn’t a princess per se, she was just an upper-middle-class Jewish girl from a little town outside of Boston. But she was beautiful. And it wasn’t exactly her fault that she […]
Nothing screamed “pathetic” like buying a gallon of cheap vodka at an IGA on a weekday afternoon in the hopes of getting so trashed you forgot your exfiancée was marrying your douchebag cousin. In two days. But knowing it was pathetic didn’t stop Michael Montgomery from putting the vodka in his cart. Or the four […]
I think you’re the one I spoke to on the phone, the librarian with a voice so so̮ that I went out and bought myself a cashmere sweater. Warm. Safe. You called me three days ago to con̯rm my new job at the Bainbridge Public Library. ̞e call was meant to be short. Perfunctory. You: […]
I’d lost my mind, was more animal than man. More crazed than sane. And all because I hadn’t found my mate, that one female born to be mine and mine alone. As an over four-hundred-year-old Lycan, a supernatural being who was able to shift from human to my inner wolf, my kind was known as […]
Eddie cried quietly in the room he shared with his two brothers. He was the middle child of five, an older brother and sister and a younger set of each too. But none of them suffered like he did. His brothers were stocky while he was slim and almost delicate. Even his sisters were made […]
“GET İN AND DON’T SPEAK,” Khi ordered as he unlocked his car. He was parked outside of The Salty Lizard in Indianapolis where we’d spent the weekend with our friends and roommates celebrating Logan’s twenty-first birthday. I rolled my eyes. “The entire drive back to Remington? I’m not allowed to speak?” Khi started the engine […]
I think I realized I was gay the first time I watched Pretty in Pink. Watching a young girl try to pick between two guys, I wondered how she could ever not know her choice. I’d picked mine early enough in the movie. There was no question. Childhood best friend for the win. But then […]
Growing up in our family wasn’t easy. Sure, I had both parents and we were your typical middle class family, but there was something off about it all. Mom and Dad had regular nine-to-five jobs that kept them busy during the week, so it was just me and my older brother Charlie most of the […]
I think it would be good for you to get out there some. Maybe you’ll get more than you bargained for. It could be a guy,” Mariah gasps. “It could be a really hot guy. One that is gay and well-built and perfect for you!” “Stop trying to play to my weaknesses Ri. You know […]
It took a lot to shock Quinn Ross. Her years as a New York Times journalist had exposed her to everything, from the good and the bad to the downright ugly. You name it, Quinn had written about it. But the words in the email shocked the heck out of her. Most people would disregard […]
“Nothing is going right, and it’s all your fault.” I mutter to Paul, my planner boyfriend. He doesn’t talk back, of course. What? I’m not crazy. I know he can’t talk back. It’s one of the reasons he’s such a good boyfriend. The sound of my own voice is oddly steadying amongst the sounds of […]
Moving sucked. Moving because your bachelor pad for half a decade was being torn down by Gavin Forrester, the hotshot big time developer in town who wanted to build more condos, really sucked. But getting a hefty payment to help compensate for the inconvenience of moving helped ease the pain. Slightly. “You gonna get a […]
I ve been recording my life since I was seven. A heavy stream of consciousness, questions, thoughts, details that I’ve kept and recorded in the journals’ pages, knowing that memories don’t last forever and are often missing details. I’ve long believed my life to be simple and I to be boring. Painfully average and predictable. […]
Abrisk wind whipped around my bare legs, swirling the skirt of my black dress and flipping it upward, Marilyn Monroe–style. I shrieked, batting at the material in a desperate attempt to bring it back down to an acceptable length. The wind didn’t seem to hear my string of curses because it just bit into me […]
