Melanie adjusted the hair clip in her daughter’s hair and stepped back to admire the result.

“You look beautiful!”

Molly beamed up at her mother and took her hand to lead her out of their hotel room, downstairs to breakfast.  She’d been looking forward to this trip for months, ever since Melanie had seen the ad for cheap holidays to Disneyland.  As a ( Read more... )

“When did you say she was going to be back?” Donna asked, yawning and stretching before artfully rearranging herself on the sofa to subtly push her breasts up in Harry’s direction.

“She should have been back half an hour ago,” he replied, peeping through the net curtains.  “Something’s wrong.”  A worried frown wrinkled his brow and Donna’s attempts ( Read more... )

“I’d like to thank you all for being here, gentlemen, lady.”  The lecturer acknowledged the single woman in the room with a little nod of the head and a patronising leer.  “I am very excited that you have been able to make it for what is likely to be the learning experience of the century.  As you are aware, subject 746 has been the cause of some ( Read more... )

All I ever wanted was to be a mum, to hold my own baby in my arms, smell its soft, newborn smell, shower its head with kisses, cuddle it from dawn ‘til dusk.  When I got pregnant with Tara, I can’t describe how happy I was to see those little blue lines.  Everyone said that I was a natural mother and when I fell pregnant with Tilly when Tara was ( Read more... )

It was just a star, one among countless others, hanging in the night sky.  Perhaps it shone a little more brightly than the rest, perhaps it had a green tinge to it at times, but it was still just a star, until the day it wasn’t.

At first, the change was subtle.  It was ever so slightly bigger, night on night, its light ever so slightly stronger ( Read more... )

Look, you knew what I was like when you married me.  I did my best - you wanted me to stop playing and I tried the nine to five thing for a bit and we both know how well that worked out.  Poker’s always been my life and we’ve had a really good life on what I won.  It’s not my fault that they were rigging the game.  How was I to know they were ( Read more... )

On principle, I haven't asked for any votes this season and I plan on continuing not to do so, especially since my entire f-list is composed of contestants, both current and former.

But since this week is intersection week, I'd ask you to check out my partner sarcasmoqueen's entry and if you like it, put a tick in her box in the poll.  I'd hate to be responsible ( Read more... )

Brooke felt a tap on her shoulder.  “What are you doing here?”

She turned around to see Cat sitting behind her.  “Er… seeing a movie?”  She indicated the cinema around her to demonstrate what a stupid question she thought it was.   “I’m on a date.  What are you doing here?  I thought you’d said you were going to stop following me.”

“You know how it ( Read more... )

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, then everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”  William Blake’s words rang through her mind as Lisa sat in circle, waiting for the High Priestess to anoint her.  It was her first closed ritual, the first time she’d worked with her sisters since being initiated into the Coven of the Golden Goose ( Read more... )

It wasn’t unusual for Ruth to come home to a prayer meeting, so when she went into the front room, she wasn’t surprised to be met by Father Bryan and members of his congregation.  Ever since her mother had joined the Church of Eternal Kindness, their home was a regular venue for the Church to do its good work saving sinners, even if those sinners ( Read more... )