Part 1 Most people know what an isolation tank is. The first, according to my reading, was built by the Samadhi Tank Company. These tanks are also known as flotation tanks. The subject floats because of magnesium salts placed in the water. In the beginning, a clinical physician name of Eddie Jessup(William Hurt) is in a tank that in the movie was a copper p...
Chameleon Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! "Ouch." "OUCH!" "Damn." "DAMN!" "Shit!" "SHIT!" "FUCK!" "FUCKING SHIT! That hurts!" Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Splat! "FUCK!" "FUCK!" "FUCK!" "OOOO! That is disgusting!" A friend back at the Alien Studies Society (and on Hentai, my home world, the name does not have the acronym of ASS, but un...
Augustus Mansfield, Ph,D had resided in Manaus, the capital of the heart of Amazonia, Brazil, for the last ten years. No one knew as much about the thirty areas where tribes lived that had never seen a white man, contained in the 20 million acres of Javari valley, as he did. As an anthropologist, and accomplished naturalist, he often ventured into the untouc...
Halloween has, throughout time, been a night when the veil between the worlds, thins; when the finite distinctions between the real and the fantastic become ethereal; when we celebrate life, death, and all the glory that both encompass. For many years, I have followed a tradition of the Earth Goddess, and worshipped all that is good and just in our world a...
Cast: The Baron, The Baroness, The Slave, The Stuffed Mouse, The Taxidermist "I say to you, good Mouse, behold old grandfather striking!" there was no response to the muffled cry, which seemed to originate within a centuries old polished brass and ivory grandfather clock. "I said, behold the striking, mouse!" came the cry, once more. Then, with a sigh, a y...
Sarah had been an anthropologist icon for her whole career. For 15 years she has been building up her catalog of reports, surveys, even dig findings. Other cultures fascinated her. The idea that in another part of the world they see planes as great birds instead of a casual different way to travel. Historically it was amusing her career began in modern cultu...
***This is the first chapter in a short novel I've started, any feedback will help keep things moving along, thanks*** * His eyes slid slowly over the worm ridden corpse before him. He felt the bile rise up from his stomach and nudge at his throat. He held it down and closed his eyes and nose from the sight and smell. He backed slowly away from the dead ho...
I worked in the ticket office of a performing arts center to make ends meet during college. Most of the men that came through there were fabulous-sexy, great singers and talented dancers-but very, very gay. The occasional one that wasn’t gay was always involved with one of the females on the tour. But this tour was different. Towards the end of my junior...
by Scatwoman (credit to MercySlayer for inspiration) Part I: "The Newlyweds" Hannah and Dylan had been married for two weeks when they arrived in the Congo for their honeymoon safari. Hannah was a cultural anthropologist and had specialized in sub-Saharan Africa. Dylan was a financial planner with no interest whatsoever in culture OR anthropology, but his...
The Haunting -- of the Daughter by the Mother Released in 1963, the original version of The Haunting lives up to its name. Directed by Robert Wise, the black and white film opens with a shot of a large old mansion in shadow. A narrator tells the audience, "Hill House had stood for ninety years and might stand for ninety more . . . Whatever walked there, wal...