Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 17
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 4,000

( We both waited for the rains to come. The grass on the hills was burnt yellow, crackling beneath our steps. The gnarled California oaks bent toward the earth, wanting to drink deeply. It was time and we were ready. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Sixteen
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,400

( She watched me dance around the ring. She weighed, she measured, she put me in a bag to take home. I would do for her. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Fifteen
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,000

( She felt the lump again, trying to gauge its size. No matter what, she couldn't tell him about it, let him see her weakness. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 14
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 2,600

( When I was boy, I would walk on the beach, looking for treasure. And one day, I found it. The night before, a storm had washed away the sand, and I saw a glint in the sun. It was a single gold earring, obviously very old. A bit of pirate booty, buried hundreds of years ago on this Old California coastline and forgotten? The last remnant of some drowning victim? Dropped by a lady as she'd strolled in the moonlight with her lover? It didn't matter. It was my treasure, and my search was over. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 13
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 5,200

A/N: My apologizes. I must have known last weekend that the week ahead would be a slam and thus I got so many chapters out. Unfortunately, that left you and worse, poor Bill and Laura, hanging. But with some hounding encouragement from certain ( Read more... )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 12
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,200

( She didn't drink hard liquor, she wouldn't flirt with other men, she wasn't interested in dancing in a crush. She'd rather lean on my chest, watching the stars slowly turn high above; that was our party. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Eleven
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,900

( She slipped her hand into her blouse and then her bra, tentatively touching her breast. She knew what she was looking for; the doctor had already told her it was there. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Ten
Authors: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: M
Word Count: 4,700

( Her mother knew trouble when she saw it, walking into her parlor in his grease-stained Hushpuppies and saggy sweater. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 9
Author: bugs
Rating: T
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Word Count: 1,800
A/N: I've been sneaking a few words here and there while my Grumpy Old Man Uncle's playing online poker but this still took me longer than anticipated!

( This old tree fell in the forest, not with a splintering crack, but tearing slowly loose, all my roots exposed to the sky when I landed. After settling into the earth, I lay in the moss, and slumbered peacefully. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Eight
Author: bugs
Rating: M
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Word Count: 2,600

( I led her back to her cell. This is where you belong, I said cruelly, slamming the door. Through the bars, her cool gaze held mine until I had to look away. )