"You're really that confident of winning this year?" "I am." "Enough to double the bet?" "Sure! So it's $1000?" "Indeed." They shook hands. "I really feel sorry for you, Dr. Smith. I don't think you realize what a challenge you've signed up for. Our faculty are notoriously tight-fisted, and yet last year, the Charity Ball I organized garnered a record $4...
A few years ago, midway through President Pelosi's first term, I overcame my typical inclination to avoid risks and accepted an invitation to visit the apartment of two women—total strangers—who had just discovered that I like to wear panties. Becky and Jude will be along in a few paragraphs, after I tell you the odd story of how I came to meet them at preci...
It was a dream come true. The opportunity of a lifetime for a biochemist and quite literally the coolest job in existence. She stopped for a second to catch her breath and let her gaze sweep back in the direction of the elevated main section of the Amundsen-Scott Antarctica Research Station – her home for three awesome months so far. A two-story research co...
I was standing in a park smoking a joint and listening to a blues-jazz band play on a warm summer afternoon when I first saw her. She was standing about ten feet away, and I knew with my first glance that she was an exceptional woman. Her tall, lean body and wide shoulders, her dark blonde hair and her gentle curves were by themselves enough to get my full a...
ALL CHARACTERS ARE ADULTS. A brisk south wind swept Washington Street as I walked to the livery stable to get my horse. I planned for a long ride into the country to see a snake-bite patient. Drought conditions existed at the time, and the cool winter temperatures were long past due. The wind felt good against my skin. But as I neared the stable it look...
Don't you just hate a tattletale? Well, if you do, no point in reading any further. We got the idea for Tattletales from Marcia. She developed an obsession for old game shows and watched the Game Show Network whenever she went home for a visit. Of course she taped the episodes, brought them back to the sorority house, and made us all watch them. I doubt...
Author's note: I hadn't planned to write this. I had only one story in mind - one year in the messy, unfinished life, and the messy, unfinished death of Gary Galloway. The idea for this story started percolating as I read public and private comments after the end of my last novel, and before I knew it, I was writing again. You don't need to have read my pr...
Max Harper lived for clients like Thompson Industries. The excitement was high and the thousand bucks an hour plus expenses paid the bills. It was chump change for any of his clients. When they called, he knew they were losing millions a day and they knew he always solved the problem. It was his first time working for Thompson Industries. The automatic door...
Sofia opened up her eyes to a sea of black. As her eyes adjusted, she was able to start to make out vague shapes and images, but not much with any clarity. All that was visible in the gloom was an endless landscape of darkness spreading out in all directions. She had no idea where she was, nor any concept of the time, but one thing was obvious. It was the mi...
Thanks to a reader who sent me the ideas for this story. Strong sexual content. *** Roger had just gotten dressed and was headed to the kitchen. As he flexed his right prosthetic hook arm it suddenly dropped to his side. He tried the left one and it did not work either. Now what was he going to do he thought. Roger had lost both of his arms above the elbow...