Calhoun City was a rough-and-tumble place, a hard-bitten, down-on-its-luck southern town surrounded by swamp and in long term economic decline (the dockyards and the warehouse district were mostly deserted). It certainly wasn't the sort of place you would expect to find success. Two young women decided to open a private investigation service. It was an indus...
General Cormeau rubbed his eyes as he came to realize the growing danger. He was the head of a small United Nations mission to the central African nation of Lamumba. Recently things had become very unstable as ethnic rivalries between various local tribes began to turn violent. Tales of murder, rape and slavery made way to the capital. Now there was word of...
Your name is John Doe. You grew up in the inner-city projects of Calhoun City, one of the worst ghettos in the USA. Most of the guys you grew up with are in jail, in gangs, on drugs, or dead. You tried to keep on the straight and narrow as much as you could, staying in school and playing basketball at the youth mission. Recently, your family fell apart: your...
Megan Feeley was excited to be moving to the big city to start her very first job. She always wanted to be a teacher, but after obtaining a liberal arts degree with a major in education from a small womens-only college, she received almost no job offers. The only one she got was as a student teacher at a place called Blackmount Technical. They did not seem t...
The 'Xhul are widely considered one of the most rational species in the galaxy. They are endlessly pursuing scientific exploration, but seem to lack the imperial ambition of the more successful space monster races. The 'Xhul had visited Earth for the first time nearly a million years ago. They noted humanity was struggling for existence in eastern Africa. Th...
Kjerstin Sukken is 18 years old, 5'9 with pale skin, ice-blue eyes, long blonde hair and the lean build of a model except for a pair of perky all-natural D breasts that really fill out a bikini top. She was raised in a middle-class lutheran family in a small town in the south of Sweden and loves basketball. After a year at a technical college, she successful...
First off, it doesn't really matter what my name is, does it? In this neighborhood, people don't much use formal names anyways. When you're a drug dealer and small-time thug like me, it's probably for the best everybody only knows me as Buzz. That's a nickname I picked up while in the army during the first Gulf War, the first and last time I got out of this...
Your name is Jane Doe, and you are a recent high-school graduate (and even more recent college dropout) from a small town middle-class christian upbringing. You were spoiled by family, teachers, friends and acquaintances devoted to keeping you from needing to rely on wits or whatever intelligence you have to get ahead in life due to your obvious attractivene...
A chill ran up Peter Esche's spine and he quickly rose from his desk as his stern boss walked into his office. "Ah, Mr. Dexler, I don't recall you ever coming to visit me before..." "It's only been a couple of months since I've been transferred up to this shithole office," Rodney Dexler spat in reply, nostrils flared as he put his hands o...
Though she always had her suspicions, Dawn wasn't aware of the extent of her stepfather's underworld connections until she attended his funeral. As she stood to give her eulogy on behalf of the family, she looked out at the sea of hard-bitten men assembled in Calhoun's great cathedral. She noticed more than a few looking her up and down, no doubt trying to d...