The minicab pulled up, briefly, near the kerb, a pair of dark eyes watching me expectantly in the mirror. I paid the driver, and stepped out onto the pavement, hands in the pockets of my topcoat -- more to discourage anyone else from trying to put theirs in than any real need for warmth on my part. I glanced around to get my bearings: down the ( Read more... )

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people... where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried... do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
I can think of only so many excuses for ( Read more... )

I turned down the music Ieuan was listening to, since it was threatening to dislodge the plasterwork on the ceiling. Also because I didn't particularly feel like scarring my vocal chords to try to shout over it. I've come to the not-too-startling conclusion that whoever said disco was evil (it was, actually, but that's another story...) hasn't ( Read more... )

Since almost everything people choose to call "natural" is a learned behaviour, the distinction between "nature" and "artifice" is, in itself, an artificial distinction.

Ieuan hit me, after we got home from the hospital, where he took it upon himself to kill that girl slayer. It had to be done. Any sensible person would agree that a rabid ( Read more... )

As much as I hate to break it to my Christian "friends" and neighbours, Jesus is not the reason for the season -- that's a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy of the first order, and really shouldn't be indulged in by anyone wishing to claim a reasonable modicum of intelligence.

We (that is, people in general) celebrate around the winter solstice ( Read more... )

[Ethan as Oscar Wilde..]

I fear I made a rather dreadful faux pas, turning up for a fancy dress party in an ordinary suit -- though the press has made certain intimations from time to time, that my attire would not be out of place when fancy dress was required. So, it could be said I am not as far from the mark as I originally supposed ( Read more... )

This delay is simply intolerable. I like Jeremy well enough, but he is, after all, a vampire, and I really don't trust him to either return to London from Los Angeles, or fulfill his end of our little bargain. It's so unfair, really. I've been in possession of this spell for eighteen years -- eighteen long, lonely, and relentless years -- and this ( Read more... )

I wrapped my arms around his waist, pressed my hips against his, letting him feel my erection, feeling Ieuan's cock swelling in response. The bond between us reasserts itself so forcefully in Ieuan because of his betrayal, and his guilt. It makes Ieuan want me all the more. (God, I love it. I love him ( Read more... )

This delay is simply intolerable. I like Jeremy well enough, but he is, after all, a vampire, and I really don't trust him to either return to London from Los Angeles, or fulfill his end of our little bargain. It's so unfair, really. I've been in possession of this spell for eighteen years -- eighteen long, lonely, and relentless years -- and this ( Read more... )

Even though Ieuan and David have resolutely decided to put anything that might have happened between them behind them, it occurred to me that Ethan wouldn't be bound by any sort of gentlemen's agreement. Point of fact, if or when Ethan found out Godolphin was dating Lynn (if things go well), Ethan would probably consider it his obligation to throw ( Read more... )