for samcdermott65, who's resolution was Lose 20 lbs. Curb the wine consumption or eliminate it all together. Eat healthier.Mark stretched out, languorous and heavy-limbed, coming so gradually awake that he wasn't sure if he was still dreaming. They'd collapsed together in the recovery coma of le petite mort, so the gas lights were still casting their gilded ( Read more... )

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Cup, Curl, Capture and a cup - for my own Friday challegeAssuredly, no job that leaves a man coming home at cock-crow each morning could ever be quite civilised. Still, the ladies he worked for were good mistresses, and the work suited Caleb far better than any other he had held before. His ladies allowed him to use his size and strength without ( Read more... )

The housemistress kept them quartered very close, most like to save on coals. Two to a bed, and six beds in narrow pairs in each low ceilinged room. It was not so very different to the way things had been at home for him. At least here there was a pair of blankets each, and lamp oil enough not to bicker over it ( Read more... )

She cried in the night. The treasonous criminal, convicted and condemned for plotting against their Queen and threatening her very life, cried soft hopeless tears when the lamp in her cell was extinguished. The sound of it tugged at Pel’s heartstrings ( Read more... )