Archive for November, 2006

Lust, Survivor Style

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

For Gabrielle FlannerY, coworker Dell Kingston is off-limits. But when she finds herself alone with him in the wilderness, she can’t resist his lips, his touch, his… • Sexy marketing executive Gabrielle Flannery is determined to excel at her firm in Atlanta. But there’s one person standing in her way: Dell Kingston, her hot, smooth-talking [...]

Something That Needs Nothing

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but, embarrassingly enough, we had parents. I even had two. They would never have let me go, so I didn’t say goodbye; I packed a little bag and left a note. On [...]

Black Ice

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

When I went up to check my traps, I saw that the porch lights at the lady’s place were still on, even though it was morning. “That’s an atrocious waste of power,” my dad said when I told him. His breath huffed in the air like he was smoking a cigar. The rabbit carcasses steamed [...]

The Ultimate Marketing Machine

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Thanks to the power of the internet, advertising is becoming less wasteful and its value more measurable In terms of efficiency, if not size, the advertising industry is only now starting to grow out of its century-long infancy, which might be called “the Wanamaker era”. It was John Wanamaker, a devoutly Christian merchant from Philadelphia, [...]

The White Coon

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

By Larry Brown Once or twice in a lifetime you encounter something in the woods that is truly strange. How you react will stay with you forever The dogs were just about to lose their track, and Mr. Richard was losing his patience fast. I shifted my weight from side to side and tried to [...]