Today’s message is specifically for my fellow Irish readers, though I hope many outside this island share these sentiments. This Friday 22 May, Ireland will vote on the issue of homosexual marriage. This issue has been close to my heart for as long as I can remember, and I am very happy to … Continue reading Yes Equality
Sister Therese was introduced here Therese tore her gaze from the endless blue sky and the freedom it represented. That freedom would be hers, but not quite yet. She wiped her hands on her grey robe and quickly returned to her work, lest any of the Enlightened sisters take her to task for daydreaming. She … Continue reading Freedom
It seems I'm repeating authors already, but Sue deserves another mention for this one. Journey to Love is as captivating as any of Sue's fiction, and plays into her well-developed and truly enjoyable theme of a young British woman who chooses to enter an intimate, rural American community with a strong local tradition of loving … Continue reading Book of the Month: Journey to Love by Susan Thomas
Paula couldn’t say she hadn’t been warned. They had made it very clear the first night of orientation, all of them did. Her dorm master, her senior buddy, her advisor, even her roommate, for goodness sake, who had no reason to be any more in the know than she did. Perhaps it was ignorance, but … Continue reading Welcoming Spanking
Isabet slouched onto her toadstool and moped, a silent steady fit unbecoming a faerie of her age. Then again, hadn’t it been made explicitly clear the previous evening that she herself was completely unbecoming for a faerie her age? The dark though only served to dampen her mood still further, thickening the roots of despair … Continue reading A Faerie Tail
It felt like any other therapist’s office, not that Josie had much experience by which to judge. The full extent of her knowledge in that area had been gleaned from Hollywood and one miserable experience in school when her parents had caved to an eccentric teacher’s suggestion that she might benefit from having “someone to … Continue reading The Therapist
Invisibility had been a wonderful thing. As a child, Helen had often wished she were invisible. Growing up, she had to admit the wish was futile, impossible, and probably not a good idea anyway. She had never thought she would one day achieve it, nor that it would be so easy. All it took was … Continue reading Invisibility
Happy April everyone! Fittingly, on the first of the month I'm featuring the first book from Carly Burton, though some of you may be familiar with her stories from LSF where she contributes as Elorac (if you haven't already, I would highly recommend her "Royal Attitude Adjustment" series available there). Charlotte's Fulfilment is a light … Continue reading Book of the Month: Charlotte’s Fulfilment by Carly Burton
Nothing quite compared to the feeling of a soft spring breeze in newly-straightened hair. It was the first time Julie had attempted to do such a thing to her own head, having only recently consented to let her hairdresser give it a go. The results Sharon had managed to produce were stunning, but expensive. Three … Continue reading Hair
Sarah and David's story began here The cobwebs had taken over. Sarah could hardly be described as impeccably tidy, but she did have standards of cleanliness that crept up every once in a while and spurred on a bout of cleaning that left her home habitable. Looking around her sitting room, she knew that one … Continue reading Distance Learning: Clearing the Cobwebs
Acknowledging Imperfection 