"I told you that I would take you anywhere. So pack up some things and let's get the hell out of here."It's so tempting to walk away. To retire. To not ever fight another day ever again. To go somewhere safe, and quiet, and never look back. Katie knows if she did, no one would judge her. She knows if she did, Tom would go with her ( Read more... )

"The whole thing has been one massive fiasco."Katie has been in love with the same man for twenty-six years, and he with her. While they've always loved each other so much, it's never been easy for either of them ( Read more... )

"She does have a sense of humor, it just runs in a different direction.""She does have a sense of humor, it just runs in a different direction," David Hardaway pointed out as he stretched out in a chair in the foyer of his eponymous theater. "It's that sarcastic, deadpan kinda humor ( Read more... )

You've stumbled onto a journal or a diary you kept as a youth, share the entries from one week with us, and the effect the words have on your adult muse as they revisit their past.When she was younger, Katie Ryan used to keep a journal. It was never one of those girly little things; in fact, it never made much sense at all. Half the time it was in ( Read more... )

"You know how it is, you plan something for so long, that once it's set in motion, there is little more to do but wait."Katie has lost track of how long the Unit has been in this state. She knows it's almost a year, because the Vice President's assassination happened not long after she got married, and she and Tom are about to celebrate their first ( Read more... )

Your muse and another is involved in a passionate and forbidden relationship of some type. Show us the element of danger and living on the edge that this liaison provides for them.

At that present moment, Katie just wanted to scream.

Goddamnit, Cohen, you are such a fucking idiot! her inner critic snapped, and she sighed, angrily tossing her pen ( Read more... )

"Don't you dare start playing that game with me again!"Maybe it's my old age. Maybe it's the lack of patience I've had since I was a child. Maybe it's the onset of menopause. Maybe it's the new way I've begun looking at the world since I became both a military soldier, and a military wife. Whatever it is, I seem to be taking everything more ( Read more... )