It is different among the horse lords. I have been beyond our lands raiding the people to the south, soft, green people - they are not like us. The men might breed their women in a raid but we would never bring them back. They would bring their softness to our people. Among the horse lords a woman is capable. She takes care of her horses, hunts, raids, coo...
Dear lost love, I miss you. I am alone now and I miss the thought of making love to you, your masculine touch and irritating ways. Well, I don't miss the irritating ways. It was such a bad time in my life and you never tried to understand. You never tried to understand the complexity of my life, my health and my tears. I was there for you like a typical wo...
it's not a new sensation for her. Lately her husband has been working every possible hour nights to earn more money. To get ahead. What this means to her is that he is gone off to work by the time she gets home with only a curt text message saying he let the dogs out. But lately, this being alone has turned into a jagged stone in her belly, a sandbag in he...
Rose and Owen Harper saved up all year for their big family vacation. This year, they'd be taking their four children - 20-year-old Dean, 18-year-old Finn, and 15-year-old twins Lucy and Lily - to Florida. They were thrilled at the idea of taking the kids to the central Florida theme parks, spending time at the beach, and, most importantly, having some roman...
Erin woke with a start. Her eyes opened wide, staring at the dark ceiling above her head. Had she heard a sound? A bump came from downstairs, and she sat straight up, clutching the blanket to her breast. She lived alone, with no pets or feasible causes of bumps in the night. Her imagination turned to intruders. Her mind raced as she tried to come up with s...
I first met Sue when she was 26 years old. Having attended an all-girls boarding school until 18 she had had little opportunity to meet boys in her childhood. This led to shyness that carried on through her early adult years, and, to some degree grew to a lack of self confidence in her own attractiveness that might seem crazy to anyone who didn't truly know...
Darkness fell quickly, and She was alone. The once bright sky faded to a deep, subdued purple that was still so vivid it seemed almost tangible. She resisted the urge to reach up and touch it, knowing the task's impossibility. Some things seem so close yet remain so far away, She thought. Dead leaves rustled as She walked through the forest, murmuring conso...
"Fucking wonderful," she thought as she pulled her coat tighter around herself and shivered. The power was out at work and there she sat in the cold darkness. Three hours earlier, a sign from a neighboring business had fallen on the back of the building; splintering a power pole as well as caving in a portion of the roof and damaging the electrical wires and...
Freshman year of college was over and I was so happy to be back home to see my family and sister. College was fun and I made so many friends but it was nice for everything to finally end and now I can relax. I realized that I needed to save up money for next year of college so I started looking for jobs and conveniently found one at a gym pretty close to my...
My name is Kerr. In the spring of every year after the snow retreats to the high places, I walk into the mountains to peel away the layers of habit and sloth that have accumulated in my head during a winter of work. It's just an annual thing I do. Early this June I started from Cairn Lake with my life in my backpack and headed up, climbing west on the trail...