James Bond, Jason Bourne; entertaining extremes of my reality. Like them, I’m trained to get in, get it done and get out – without getting killed. Unless the only other alternative is getting captured. In that case, I know what to do. By necessity, special forces covert operations are lethal – either for the […]
Hidden in plain sight; cloaked in layers of misdirection. Not what she appears to be; but yet is her real self. Deception is her protection. Necessary because of the family she had been born into and the multi-billion dollar empire they had built. Tired of the charade, she envied those with simpler lives. A mask, […]
A Guest Post by Diana Lee reprinted from Diana’s Words,26 May 2011 a man’s palm cool and firm as marble muscled mount of Venus carved for lips tongue teeth plain of Mars hollowed cradle for my cheek heart line furrowed deep crevasse of love Jupiter Saturn Apollo Mercury fingers, long and supple line […]
Men are fascinating. She needed no other entertainment, content to spend entire evenings observing them, conversing with them. They were so uncomprehendingly ‘other’. The more complicated ones were disturbingly good at keeping their thoughts to themselves and she sensed those thoughts roiling behind carefully managed expressions. Just out of reach. At 5 feet 8 inches, […]
