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15 Days with the Smith Family - Part 1
The first 6 days from Greg Smith's perspective
Day 1
Greg was sitting at his desk in one of the tallest buildings in the city's business center. Their office is on the seventh floor, high enough to flood the minimalist, chic, modern office with a generous amoun...

Chapter 19
Tuesday morning, day too of being classroom parent, I'm walking toward the school, holding Ava's hand when my phone rings. I want to ignore it completely, but I know Nick is dealing with a lot of drama this week without me around. The library expansion was supposed to have been done and d...

Chapter 4 -- National Signing Day
Monday January 30
My breath came in steady huffs as I ran along the path through the park. It was barely past dawn, my favorite time of day if I wanted to be alone, and I was out for my morning run. The park was quiet as I followed the path to the pond. The only noi...

Chapter 1 - Knocking at the Door
Jake Johnson heard knocks on the door. Jake jumped out from the bed and went to the door, looking into the peephole. It was Jessica.
Jake had texted her earlier to come over.
Chapter 2 - At a Hotel Room
When Jake plopped onto the well-made twin bed, after spending ho...

The Abbey Farm Curse.
Chapter Seventeen.
When Rhys did eventually get home I'd gone back to the paperwork that I'd abandoned earlier, and the first I was aware of his return was raised voices coming from down the corridor. Sighing resignedly I pushed back my chair ready to investigate, but a slammed...

Rachel From the Edge Pt. 05
by G. Lawrence
Pamela confronts her ex-husband's slave girl
The Benson family's business interests were threatened when billionaire Danny Benson scandalously died in coitus with his tied-up girlfriend. Ex-wife Pamela Benson, angry and resentful, has been persecuting the y...

Chapter 16 ARRANGEMENTS
Gertie prepares for the new Lady Standhope
A week next Saturday, Gertie chaired the first meeting regarding the wedding arrangements of her grandson Jake and his fiancée Gill. Held at one of the small dining rooms at the Manor, over tea, coffee and biscuits, there were nine s...

Part 1 -- Aftertaste
The wine bottle is still on the kitchen counter.
Half empty. Room temperature. I didn't mean to leave it out. But I didn't stop myself, either.
The glass beside it is already waiting, like it knows I'll need it.
I pour a small one.
Just to land. Just to sleep.
The first sip is b...

They went to a room and turned on a red light, indicating others weren't free to join. There was a series of mats, almost like vinyl covered mattresses on the floor and some pillows. There was a box of condoms inside the door and a shelf for towels. Eva put her panties and bra there. Eva hugged Luca...

Tanya Wise was dressing for bed when the call came in. She almost let it go to voicemail before she saw it was from Leo Tims, her co-worker and best friend with benefits.
"What's on your mind, Leo?" She asked hopefully.
"May I ask you to drop everything and go somewhere?"
"With you? Certainly," she ...

Rachel From the Edge Pt. 04
by G. Lawrence
A stubborn young woman is more than she seems
After her billionaire boyfriend died on top of her during bondage sex, Rachel Montgomery became a national joke, was fired from her job by his ex-wife, and grew critically ill, ready to die in her seedy downtown...

Authors Note, The events in this story take place in a single weekend, thus far the story has covered up to Sunday afternoon. Sunday Evening is in three parts! Here is the first part!
That Damn Voice can go Fuck itself...
Liz didn't know why but on hearing Katie say those words, Liz reached and held...

Dear Readers,
I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thanks to Pandamonium, BowtieCharlie, and Drypedyx for helping me edit.
If you've been here for the last 7 chapters, you kinda know what you are in for. This chapter doesn't have any nonconsent, so if you were waiting for that to go away, I think we're sa...

Jia's summer break was finally coming to a close. The schoolyear started next week and the first year orientation, or O-Week, was beginning in the afternoon once residential first years had moved in. Jia had spent the noisy morning in her dorm where she reflected on the past few months living in thi...

*See chapter 00. Intro and chapter descriptions*
I awoke in the darkness, a gentle nudging of something wet and soft against my face. Opening my eyes I saw two yellow eyes staring back, Tiamat had entered my tent and awoken me. She snorted and nudged me, then turned and left the tent, leaving me in ...

15 Days with the Smith Family - Part 0


An introduction to who's who and how to navigate the series to get a full story

Introduction
In this novel, you can spend 15 unforgettable days with the seemingly ordinary Smith family. It was created as a script for a "visual novel game," but it never saw t...

15 Days with the Smith Family - Part 4


The first 6 days from Mia Smith's perspective

Day 1
It was almost noon when Mia woke up. She lay in bed and thought, Mmm. It's nearly noon. Who cares? I graduated a few days ago, and now I can sleep as much as I want. Finally, my parents accept that I won't ...

15 Days with the Smith Family - Part 3


The first 6 days from Daniel Smith's perspective

Day 1
Professor Doohan looked at his watch. He slowly stood up from his chair, his hands on the table. "Okay, ladies and gentlemen, time is up. Put down your pencils and leave your papers on the table. You may...

15 Days with the Smith Family - Part 2
The first 6 days from Helen Smith's perspective
Day 1
The end of the working day in the accounting office was approaching. Helen was sitting at the desk finishing her work. Diana was already finished and ready to go and was sitting across from her. Helen often ...

Chapter 10
It's been a very trying day. Two weeks in and Ava is only acting worse and worse by the day. She's been throwing fits all day. When we went to the beach with Helen, she threw sand at us and stormed off to find her father, who, of course, was at the library. He's only spent three nights wi...

Rachel From the Edge Pt. 03
by G. Lawrence
Near death, Rachel finds a friend
When a national scandal broke out following the sudden death of billionaire Daniel Benson, his ex-wife feared the tightly bound slave girl found underneath his dead body would damage their business interests. And perhaps th...

The twentysomething's key missed the lock on the first two attempts. With his hand shaking, he glanced over his shoulder again at the police scattered around the motel's parking lot and walkways. That he'd been stopped before entering the motel had nearly caused him to freak out. However, he'd been ...

Rachel From the Edge Pt. 02
by G. Lawrence
Chaos follows the sudden death of a billionaire
This novel is constructed on different levels. Most importantly, the experiences of individual characters. This will turn out to be a love story, just not the kind readers usually expect. But the story also ex...

The Man
Mike Ledur
All Rights Reserved
In April 2025, people throughout the world were celebrating the end of Covid-19. We'd had moments like this before, in 2022, when people assumed there was no need for masks, only to be followed by an eighth wave and a new round of cases and deaths. But this tim...

I
I never thought I'd liked threesomes. Too much eye contact. Too many elbows. Too much potential for things to go wrong. But this one came with MI6 clearance.
It started on my last day in Manila. I saw her through a swarm of sweating tourists and brown-skinned locals.
She sliced through the crowd l...

Friday, September 6th, 10:05 am
The roar of the engines whipped my jacket around as I followed Erin across the tarmac toward the plane's steps. I stopped at the bottom of the steps and turned to gaze out at the Scottish highlands one last time, enjoying the intense greens that reached up toward the ...

The Abbey Farm Curse
Chapter Sixteen.
I awoke with an overfull bladder and shrugged myself quickly into my bathrobe to go and attend to it. I don't know why I bothered to put my robe on, no-one else seemed to bother, in fact as I stepped out into the corridor there was Shannon, walking unconcerned a...

Chapter 1
The crack of a ball hitting a bat is a welcome sound at Wrigley Field. I've been to more Cubs games than I can count and I always enjoy it. This game was supposed to be an opportunity to rub elbows with some potential clients but the meeting fell through. The crowd's cheers echo through Wr...

Chapter 13

The last week of the course, Chef Girard arranged to have a guest lecture by Chef Marcus Reynolds, a rising star whose Manhattan restaurant, Hearth, had recently earned its first Michelin star. The room was packed, students from all programs eager to hear from a young chef who was making...

Rachel From the Edge
Part One
by G. Lawrence
A young woman's billionaire boyfriend suddenly dies
Rachel Montgomery is my favorite character, but I realize she's not for everybody. She has a different way of looking at the world, and different priorities. And as we shall see, she has a special genius...