The cast of characters include her no-nonsense housekeeper Grace who is also her confidante and advisor, her niece Cat ( also independently wealthy) who runs a delicatessen, Cat’s current boyfriend Toby and her
now draining away. The exhaustion he has kept at bay for so long sweeps in like a tide. The air around him shimmers, dazzling with motes and filaments of light thrown, like cinders, from the immolating Throne. He hears the creak and shiver of the vast chamber’s huge arches tensing i...
Even Wall Street, one of the sources of the meltdown, benefited from the upswing, with a dazzling new home for the New York Stock Exchange (1903) by the master ofneo-classical architecture George Post. The fate of America’s financial future runs through this building’s trading floor. Wea...
I just felt a shiver down my spine. Oh, no, I'm not cold — I'm just reflecting on my time saving my food scraps in my last two apartments. The smell that punched me in the face every time I took the lid off of the stainless steel countertop bin or the mystery drop of melty...
He'd never returned it. And if he had, he'd have needed to turn them down anyway, for an assortment of safety reasons. But he'd learned the signs. If he was not very much mistaken, the hottest woman in the world was looking interested. Cath. Cath was interested. All he had to...
Zoë runs, and Wes chases. His primal instincts kicking into overdrive. This is his second chance, and he isn’t going to let her get away this time. He knows she’s keeping secrets, and he’s determined to hunt them down Taggedadult romance,book review,Dana Isaly,games we play,kink...
o’clock at the top and start referring to 12 AM as the one that’s just before the sun reaches its peak. As soon as “one noon” replaces “twelve noon”, I’ll get on board. Midnight, when the clock strikes one, just doesn’t send the same shiver down my spine. Sorry, ...
done all the hard work. — John Myatt. (Here is where keeping your bits comes in. Jan and I know that if either of us wants to call it quits the other will be strongly discouraging this idea. Just having someone counting on you can make all the difference when the chips are down....
while you remain sitting trying to make yourself as small and unnoticable as possible. Unless they have lived it themselves, people are not going to understand and they’re going to look down their noses at you because you’re being selfish and insensitive toward mothers. But you know what?
I only managed to get two runs in this month. A personal 5K on New Year’s Day so that I could start the year running, and the Shiver By the River 10K on January 16th. My New Year’s Day run is a ‘new tradition’ I first began on January 1st 2020 with my running friend ...