「ザキさん、こんなクソ寒い夜中になんの用ですか」 空気も凍るような寒さの夜、理由も告げずに俺を稽古場へ呼び出した小劇団の先輩、崎山に不満を隠さず声を掛けた。そこは、稽古場というより廃倉庫といったほうがしっくりくるボロ屋で、風が吹かないだけ外よりマシという状況だった。貧乏劇団ゆえ暖房器具など置いてすらない。 「おう、すまねぇな、森田。ちょっと見せたいもんがあってな」 「金貸してくれってのは無しですよ」 「そんなんじゃねぇよ。芝居の話だ、芝居の」 崎山はもう四十も半ば、芽の出ない役者だ。売れない理由は、今時となっては珍しい「飲む」「打つ」「買う」と三拍子を見事に揃えた素行の悪さが、業界中に知れ渡っているせいだった。どこぞの脚本家の奥さんに横恋慕して旦那に殺されかけただの、賭場で負けて裸で電車に乗って留置所に入れられ...
Taylor was born and raised in Grayson, Kentucky, a rural, scenic little town with a population of about 4,000. He'd had a fairly typical small-town American life, was handsome, outgoing and popular and played wide receiver on the football team in high school. He'd dreamed of playing in the NFL, being a superstar athlete, marrying a supermodel, or marrying...
//Author's Note: Huge thanks to my good friends KatieTay and SkullTitti for their help in translations and tone! This story could not have been possible without their patience and assistance!// "Huh," Wren said, repeating herself and breaking the long silence. The picture of her, attached to the bottom of the wanted notification, was an old one. Her hair ha...
十五 "How about an app for buying a ghost?" Man-bun Matty asked the table. His hands were raw, red with scabs and rashes, but he was in good spirits, hyper this morning, decked out in a golden traditional Chinese button up shirt and matching baggy gold pants and open toe sandals. He obviously had no fear of the cold. Man-bun was sipping on a thermos of cive...
四 The nightmares fit a pattern. I'd be in my apartment building's corridor, find myself in vivid encounters with angry, confused souls, mostly men, wearing dark blue prison clothes with a bar code like number on the front and back of their shirts. They were in pain, these men. Physical pain. Psychic pain. Many were riddled full of bullet holes, and they w...
Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager sat in her private bath in her quarters, feeling the water moving over her body. She loved the feeling of hot water moving over her naked skin instead of the pressure from the sonic showers. Occasionally when she had her physical with the doctor, he might remark about her odour, and that bath's didn't remove all the dirt an...
//****Foreword: In order to save the privacy of my friend and myself, I've changed our screen names. This started out as a casual conversation. Quite frankly, I feel kind of guilty about this because my friend has an online girlfriend already. The only reason I tried to seduce him was just to SEE if I could because I used to have a huge crush on him. I thi...
Janeway helps 7 of 9 Chapter 6: The Wedding Captain Katherine Janeway stood in her quarters staring at her image in the full-length mirror. The stretch marks around her stomach had begun to fade, thanks largely to the skills of the doctor. Indeed, her figure had almost returned to what it had been be before she had given birth to her daughter Louise, a uniq...
Janeway walked into the briefing room, constantly aware of her surroundings as memories of the previous night filled her mind. Despite her best efforts, the image of 7's hand rubbing her clit and pushing up into her sex wouldn't leave her mind, or reality. As she walked into the room, she almost freeze, seeing 7 talking causally to Torres on the opposite sid...
When anyone decides to read or write Japanese Poetry a common thread in many of their forms quickly becomes apparent. Many are familiar with the basic form of haiku and in an earlier discussion I outlined the basic form for the tanka. These two forms of Japanese Poems follow a basic syllabic form using lines of 5 and 7 onji (part of Japanese speech approxi...