"Uncle Miles," the twenty-five year old young woman in the lab coat said. "Hey Louie, Beware of fat men bearing gifts." he added. He had intentionally used the masculine version of her name. "Granny's donuts, my god you are amazing. You do know my name is Louise," the young woman chastised him while biting into a strawberry jam filled donut. "I know my ki...
I know a sixteenth [rune]: If I see a girl With whom it would please me to play, I can turn her thoughts, can touch the heart Of any fair-armed woman. I know a seventeenth: If I sing it, The young girl will be slow to forsake me. -- Words of the Most High, from the Elder Edda, c.800-1000 A.D. *** The bars in Reykjavik aren't notably different from the ba...
Space, contrary to childhood science, is not quiet. It's filled with radio transmission, bleats of satellites and probes long forgotten, echoes of years past, and the groans of dying stars. Cale could hear none of these. To him, space was quiet and lonely and empty. He traversed the galaxy alone, the sole living human in the remnants of the Milky Way. Somew...
Spencer ran his hands through his thick brown hair as he unlocked his apartment's door. He felt exhausted from his work as a realtor and was happy to finally be home. The door swung open and he made his way into the living room to see his wife Ada laying on the couch typing on a laptop. Her hair was jet black, cut short, and still messy. She smiled brightly...
William Hagen met Ada at the top of the gangplank up to the deck of the Ada George. The two were still hugging tightly when Ada's son, Daniel Raven, puffed up the ladder and put foot to deck. "I see you've found Mr. Hagen," Dan said dryly. "He wouldn't stay home, and if it hadn't been for him, this wouldn't have happened—at least as quickly as it did." "Go...
Hello everyone! I'm back (and older, crap)!!! Woulda been back earlier but my bastard internet went spastic!! Anyway, here's a new story that's been jumping about in my head and was meant to be like really short but it seems to be spiraling out of control. So...putting it up and if you want me to continue just say so...if you think it's utter shite and shoul...
This story is a from a role playing game and takes place in a mining village, where a beast has just been slain, the people freed from its tyranny. The story features a character called 'the rigger' from a different story, 'Accidentally Tied and Denied' by the same author. * Sheriff Borash yells, "Praise to Ada, for she has slain the beast!" A chorus of c...
"I never want to move from here," Ada whispered dreamily, as she gazed at the paddle fan slowly revolving in the painted rafters over her head and listened to the songs of the jungle birds and clicking of the geckos out in the lush green vegetation beyond the pavilion. She moved her hips, seeking the assurance that Sun Li was still deep inside her. "Hmmmm,"...
In many ways, the six years Ada spent with Stanfield in diplomatic service in tropical Kuala Lumpur were the happiest of her life. As rich and official Americans they lived like royalty, and every whim was seen to by someone else. Although they were physically closer to the gathering world war than anyone in the United States was, in terms of its effect on t...
Ada had nearly become unhinged at seeing her Chicago industrialist lover at her doorstep in Indiana, not the least because he stood beside his natural son—her eldest son, Dan. When Dan had been conceived, Ada was too innocent to know that Vaughn was the father, but Charles had set her straight on that. While pointing out that he couldn't be the father becaus...