by
RC_of_Doom
on Sep 13, 2017
Reviews & Essays
Obviously, step one in writing a novel, get an idea.
Authors get the question all the time: "How do you come up with your ideas?"
Assuming you're not one, I can answer that: Formal viewpoint. Or a functional mentality.
For example, Forbes Magazine had a front page cover about how al-Qaeda was losing money, and it suggested that Osama needed a new business...
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by
R. Richard
on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays
Free speech does not mean the right to scream "Fire!' in a crowded movie theater. The matter has been decided in courts of law and in the court of public opinion. [It comes under the doctrine of reckless endangerment.] In both arenas, the backers of unlimited free speech have lost.
Free speech does not mean the right to physically threaten someone. Again, t...
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by
Emhdtats
on Jul 31, 2019
NonHuman
Fiction, of course, and all participants in sexual activity are over 18. One, in fact, is ageless. "Death in the saddle" with a twist.
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He was feeling his years, both the physical weight and the intellectual weight. And the tension of being a "grand old man" of his discipline and, simultaneously, of being a dinosaur,...
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by
eatoure
on Sep 14, 2017
Exhibitionist & Voyeur
The carefully selected upper division honors students filed into the seminar room and jockeyed for the best chairs to watch and to hear their distinguished guest professor. Each of them had been selected individually, either by the chair of their major department or the head of the program in comparative literature, to participate in a special graduate-level...
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by
Dinsmore
on Sep 15, 2017
Romance
Please do not make the mistake of assuming the "when" in this story. It could be 1970, 2006, 2030 or whenever. I've intentionally blurred the time frame so that I don't get a bunch of inane political comments concerning current events from the lunatic fringe of any orientation.
This is a story with military overtones; there are no dogs and no corporate Ame...
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by
pyramider
on Sep 15, 2017
Non-Erotic
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him" Ludwig Wittgenstein
The day the aliens came there was no fire in the sky; no music in the background and no reception party of stuffed official Earthlings. There was just me in my wheelchair in our backyard taking the first warm breezes of the com...
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by
FogBard
on Sep 15, 2017
BDSM
Author's Note: Dear Reader, although not necessary, to best appreciate this story, I suggest you read chapter one of this series- it is very short and fast moving. Enjoy!
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The confession of Mrs. George had weighed on my mind. I knew I crossed the line when I challenged her to confess her submissive nature to me but I had to challenge her. A...
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by
potsherd22
on Sep 14, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
This story arose when I told my granddaughter the Rapunzel story when she was poorly. She listened politely and told me that I was making up most of it as I went along. True enough.
A day or so later I found myself writing it down, not for six-year-olds but for adults. There is no sex in this version (unlike the nineteenth century version I read in which Ra...
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by
pinkwraps
on Jul 27, 2020
BDSM
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
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Melody walks up the stairs of the psychology building, notorious for its winding staircase. She mentally makes a note to prepare enough time take the sluggish elevator next time she uses the facility. She manages to get up to the third floor without sweating too much and op...
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by
bbtp41
on Sep 15, 2017
Letters & Transcripts
During the late summer of 1862 the W... family experienced a flurry of activity that is overlapping and interconnected. Each of the principals contributed observations and insights concerning the nature and implications of the events. I have here included several, by no means all of the correspondences, for the reader's edification and as an interlude to fut...
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