Prompt: Save the... face!Miss Grace Hale is mortified that she must attend a wedding where the man she used to love will undoubtedly be parading his new fiance. Drastic times call for drastic measures and Grace is determined to come up with a plot to save face, but she might just end up saving herself instead.Word Limit: 2000…
These 1000 words are an ode to King Henry and Anne Boleyn who poured their passion onto parchment long before they were married. Some say he first met her at her father's house and others note his infatuation with her at court. But one thing is certain, Henry wrote letters to Anne of deep and abiding love that no other wife of his received. She may not have kept her head, but she had his heart.This short story is written for the Trials of Love contest. Theme: ObstaclesPrompt: Love in the time of snail mails.…
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Highest Ranking #3 in Historical FictionA re-imagining of the true story behind the first assassination attempt of Queen Victoria and the maids who prevented her death.In a time of poetic conversations, sumptuous ball gowns and aristocratic men... dwelled three maids. And by maids, I don't mean quiet, delicate country girls who donned a bonnet and an apron, I mean working kitchen-hands who wore female garments as if they were men's trousers, who had a powerful right hooks hidden beneath demure innocence and laced with wit as sharp as a Toledo blade.These feisty lass's names were Mina, Liara and lastly Verushka. Circumstance had placed them below stairs but destiny was due to take them in odd and exciting directions. One to the stage, the other to the young Queens secret guard, and the last of the three was to venture to the inevitable glittering ballroom, but all paths were to lead to a charming and devilish Rake. For, much more is stored in the kitchen than eggs and flour - in the Bexley House, there is Persuasion in the Pantry.…
Miss Victoria Hastings, aged twenty-four, was a confirmed spinster. At the height of her glory she was once considered a diamond of the first water, although she had since descended closer to consistency of mud. And, once the ton believed you had been dragged through the proverbial mud, they didn't much care if you stayed there. So, she entered into her 'exile' with a fervent hatred of men, some more so than others. Enter...Lord Anthony Elwes, Duke of Westley, was not a man to be crossed. Having returned from the Orient with the unfortunate business of marriage on his mind, he did not expect the ditzy debutante he once knew to have blossomed into a woman of substantial wiles and wit. Anthony always claimed what he desired, but Victoria could not be bought, bartered or borrowed. Marriage would instead require strategy, stealth... and the seduction of a spinster.…
What if places were people, & the mystical canals of Venice or highlands of Scotland took the form of Man? What would he be like & would he capture your heart? Would the rugged landscape be reflected in roughened form or the cool brush of city steel tame his soul?Travelling the world has become a love story like no other.Come & discover the passion that lies beneath the streets, in rivers, forests & towns around the globe.…
Our first night together I cared not that I did not know his name. I would wrap myself around him and drown out the distant cries of duty. I would let him take me in whichever way, place and position that he wanted and when I had sucked him dry of every last drop of passion that he had to offer- I would kill him.…
She found him in the wilderness and tamed his untouched heart with the swiftness and ease of killer in the dark. And then she ran with wolves at her heels, until she turned to face her lover on the battlefield. But how can you fight a nightmare that rides on the edge of a dream, who awakens a longing for passion yet unseen?…
Short one-shot story about Adam and Lilith... a woman not made from Adam's rib, but instead made as his equal.…