All participants are over 18. ***** When Jeremy moved back to the big city, I was bereft. I would have followed him there but he said ass was cheap in the city. That was all I was to him for as long as we were together. There really was no "we"; I was just a receptacle for him to drop a load in. I couldn't blame Jeremy; he never promised me anything or led...
An Apocryphal Tale for Oestara by Sadie Rose Bermingham "When we first began to write the Rayne Wylde vampire stories we had a little joke that Jabez Everman had been hanging around at some of the principal political hotspots of history. There was some little quip about him selling miniature crosses at the Crucifixion, which was in very poor taste, I know!...
"This is Claude, Claude Barbier, Neal. He'll be living with us this summer. He's a concert pianist. French." "I've heard interesting things about you, young man," the Frenchman said. "I'm looking forward to getting to know you better." This was how I was greeted coming off the train in Gunzenhausen, an ancient Bavarian town on a large lake, Muhr am See, be...
"No, I will have them with me," Monsignor Roman Scarlotti almost bleated as he held the parcels closer to his chest. And then, realizing that the driver was only trying to be helpful, he added in a calmer voice, "Thank you, my son, but these I must keep close to me." The driver shrugged and opened the back door of the all-terrain vehicle that had seen its b...
Aaron sat at the bar nursing his glass of scotch, rubbing his forehead softly. He couldn't believe what had just happened in the previous hour. Aaron had just walked in on his girlfriend and another guy upon coming home from work early. He walked through the front door of their apartment and saw into their bedroom; he saw her nude back with large male hand...
When I'd told Mother about me moving in with Jesse, she didn't ask why or beg me to stay. I got a congratulatory smile and a promise that she'd pay my share of the rent. Fine with me—I quit being sore weeks ago. She offered to pay Jesse's share, as well, since she liked him so much. But he respectfully declined, saying that the work keeps him grounded. What...
"It isn't over until it's over, fucker." Chris bumped my shoulder as he passed me, almost dumping me in the pool at the Natatorium. I'd say his expression was a mix of disappointment, determination, and more than a bit of a sneer. I said nothing, and I didn't respond to the aggression. I'm not sure I would have felt or reacted differently if I'd been just be...
AT HOME IN MIAMI Denny followed his father's advice and took three days to drive to Miami. He left mid-morning on Monday and stopped at a motel along the way. His father had given him enough cash to stay two nights along the way. He did most of the driving on Tuesday and finished up the trip on Wednesday. He was glad he had listened to his father as he arri...
"He is known as the Invisible Man, and your job is to make him visible to us." We were dining in the Bel-Etage restaurant of the Sofitel Hotel in Zurich on tender roasted veal with potato pancakes, not a great distance, but several centuries in amenities, away from the north African country of Bulla Regia bordering the Mediterranean. "But why the need for...
This story is entirely a figment of my imagination, a fantasy that makes me hot. I'm sure it's historically inaccurate. In Germania, Part One of Two I sat the sturdy horse and contemplated how much I hated my life. The guards were ahead and behind us being vigilant for threats as my father's bondsman chattered happily away at my side. I detested him and hi...