PART FIVE - MOUNT IDA - 1 - "I can see why they stopped calling it Mountain of the Goddess and started calling it Goose Mountain," Saphy sneered as they bumped along an increasingly rough road. Saphy and Gabe had had some trouble making their way out of Bodrum. They had no money, no credit cards, one of them was dressed in essentially a piece of sacking a...
Kara'it (the apostrophe is like a cheek click) decided that it was time to mate. Her people had long-ago discovered the secret of interstellar travel and had visited the planet that rotated below her many times. They had observed the inhabitants; using television reception, remote observation devices, and the behavior and anatomy of people brought aboard the...
This is my very first story anywhere. Though the story is true, the names are changed. All comments welcome. Thanks to Louise who edited and encouraged me to submit. * There are three ways to get around the island of Kauai. If you live there, you can drive you own car. But otherwise you depend on a bus system that runs when it wants to, and not all the way...
Sherry was quiet at lunch, but she told John how well I did on the tractor and how much we got done. Mary had made a delicious vegetable soup. Sherry told her parents she was going to visit some one named Jenny and probably wouldn't be home tonight. She glanced over at me after she said that, then got up and left the room. I looked at her as she walked away,...
The following is a story that took place in 1981. I had turned eighteen at the time. Looking back being a young man growing in the eighties things were simpler that they are now and we were naive and trusting without considering malicious out-comings of meeting total strangers on the road. Now a days being a 55 year old man with grown up children, I would co...
Suzanne I spent a leisurely week, catching up on my laundry, shopping, and other household chores I had been ignoring while I had been doing my best to 'service' the horny ladies of the neighborhood. At about seven on Friday evening, there was a knock at my door, and when I opened it, there was Suzanne. She looked like an older hippie chick, about 5' 6", wi...
Travelers Aid, In the 50's when air travel was in its infancy, most Americans traveled by train, or bus, even more than traveled by automobile as the interstate highway system was years away from being completed. Servicemen, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines utilized the trains and buses almost exclusively, as the railroads and bus companies extended conside...
2066Faith and CharityLindiweXVI It was the first time since Lindiwe was a child that she could remember ever being happy. Was this what she'd been looking for since she'd left Lesotho? In fact, so low had her measurement of luxury fallen that just to sleep on a mattress she didn't have to share and to survive without needing to sell her body were enough now...
He glances in the rear view mirror to check his reflection again. The day is waning and dusky shadows are just starting to creep over the landscape. He smiles and sees his teeth flashing white in the mirror, keeping one eye on the road, he rumples his perfect hair, trying to adopt a bad boy image. It is not possible, his flawless face and smooth skin can nev...
I stared bleakly into space. "So this is how my country repays me. I risked life and limb in Iraq and now I can't get a job or a place to live." I kicked at the ground. "Fucking politicians. They send us off to die, and when we come back, they dump us in the trash like a week old newspaper." I stopped griping, realizing that talking to the air in front of m...