It was a project based on several known facts. (1) With every kilo of mass lifted from a planet's gravity well, the amount of fuel needed went up exponentially. (2) The fewer the crew, the less the mass of life support needed. (3) A human in space, completely cut off from human contact will go insane within forty days. (4) Rigorous evaluation was needed...
Concentration of wealth had reached a tipping point. The computer revolution, world wide information sharing, and overpopulation were all part of it. In the developed countries unemployment reached forty percent. Seventy percent of the employed did not make enough to live on and depended on government aid. Every government was in deep debt. The one percent...
I dropped the towel I'd used to dry my hair to the balcony floor, opened a beer and sat back inhaling the salty evening breeze. A vacation was long overdue, or at least so I'd been told, but there was that old restless resentment bunched up in a corner of my mind, just waiting for me to relax to swallow me up. "Fuck off," I muttered at it. I've never been...
"All right, Lyle, when I whistle in F sharp, Reginald's thingie is supposed to wilt. If it doesn't, you strike it with the thorny rose branch." "P-please, darling Blaze-" "Shut up, Reg. We've been working on this all week. I need you to be ready at the play party, or Mistress Salem will be laughing at me, the bitch." "Yes ma'am." Lyle shook his head as h...
This story was written by me for a lovely Canadian lady to give as a gift to her lover. The story is based on their real life relationship. * The day started out with a blustery snowstorm coming in from the North. Living in Canada this was a natural occurrence for late December, but this one was not your typical winter snowfall. Six inches of the wintry fl...
Magnus and His Family (Chapter 16) Kathryn M. Burke Late the next morning—it was a Saturday—Paul showed up at the sorority house again. When he was let in, he asked the girl who had opened the door, "Hey, is Darcy here?" "Yeah, I think so," she said, giving Paul a warm look. "Check the library." The house had a library where girls could study in reas...
Author's preamble: The characters in this story are both over 18. It is entirely fictional: any similarity between them and real people is coincidental. The Merry Widow is a stand-alone tale of two septuagenarians finding a new lease of life together. I lost Bert, my husband, two years ago and still miss him dearly. I miss his companionship and I m...
Chapter 3 She's waiting when I arrive home from work. She holds out her hand for me to kiss. "Go shower and shave, I've laid out your clothes, you've got ten minutes." "Yes Beautiful Mistress." She's laid out a black velvet slave set, grey trousers and a blue pin striped button down shirt. "You're one minute late. That will be five. Now my boots." She's...
I put a story on literotica called A Moment in Time a year or more ago. A number of readers were so kind as to ask me to finish it, and I decided that doing so would enable to revisit some of my favourite characters from The Sacred Band. So here it is. Please refresh your memory of part one. It won't take long. Thank you, Colin the dogg for kindly reading a...
Heather 1: Gentle Nostalgia NB All the characters in this story are over 18 As I lay on my back in my bed, gently exploring my hardness, I thought back to that first time with Heather, when everything began... Heather was a friend of my mothers, with two daughters much younger than me. Her husband Ken knew my father too - it was one of those neighbourly f...