Story: Behind Enemy Lines

I'm excited to be posting a new story. I held a contest on my blog last year and the prize was a story commission. I'd intended for the story to be finished in a couple of weeks and run around 3,000 words. Well, it is six months later and just shy of 13,000 words. Oh well.

The story features mind control and women being converted from non-smokers into smokers.

I want to give a big shout out to blackbladder for the story idea and to Steve Wells for looking the story over and giving me amazing feedback.


Behind Enemy Lines
By Varian Milagro
Based on the story idea by Blackbladder

“Andie, what do you think your previous supervisor would say is your greatest weakness?” Melinda Harris asked out of courtesy. She didn’t even bother listening to the reply. She picked at the remains of her Caesar salad and focused on avoiding Andie’s secondhand smoke.

Melinda and Andie were seated at a small outdoor table at Hogan’s Heroes, an independent lunch spot a couple miles from NTA, the company where Melinda worked. Both ladies were in their early forties and slim for their age. That is where the similarities ended. Andie stood an inch over five-foot and had straight, black hair so long that she sometimes sat on it if she wasn’t careful. Melinda pushed six-foot in heels and had naturally wavy, red hair that stopped just shy of her generous bosom. Another difference was their disposition. Melinda had warm, inviting eyes and she smiled constantly. Andie looked like her face might crack if she tried to smile and her eyes betrayed a cold, calculating intelligence.

Stories in the works - 3/7/2016

First off, I can’t believe that it’s been two and a half months since I given an update. Sorry.
I’ll try to do these things more regularly going forward.

First the good news. I’ve written two new stories, one of them in the Tobacconist universe. The bad news. I’m still no closer to finishing Heather’s story.

Okay, now more good news. I’m writing regularly again.  I spent about three months writing little, but now I am writing in my journal daily. I owe thanks to a lot of different people for giving me motivation, not the least of which are David Plymouth, Tamara Vincent, Steven Wells, Blackbladder and all of you who have commented or visit my blog regularly.