Jet lag can be a killer but it can also be a giver. If John McClane hadn't been fighting his jet lag in the corporate bathroom, he would have been rounded up with the others and the Die Hard franchise would have been snuffed at birth. Yippee-Ki-Yay mother hubbard! I'd been burning the candle not at both ends but burning it twice as fast on the work end. No...
"What the fuck?" you yell out loud. Heads turn to look at you with curiosity. "I'm sure you heard me quite clearly." she says adjusting her glasses. Her dark brown eyes are smiling at you. "Arrgh..." You mutter getting up from your desk. Fucking bitch! You push past her and storm your way to the CEO office. She smirks as she lay...
All characters in this story are at least 18 years old. The Watcher, Asmodatu, appears to us on an alien landscape. "I am Asmodatu the Watcher" he told us, "like Uatu, I have observed the rise and fall of civilisations, worlds, galaxies. I know all that is, most of what has been and much of what will be. I also have many windows into the stran...
MARCUS... It was such a dumb name to give, but it was the first one that popped into my head. I was lucky, extremely lucky, that she never noticed that it was the name on one of the waiters name tags. Probably because she was too focused on me to be bothered with noticing any of her other surroundings. When I took her hand and lead her out, though, the stu...
"You could do Lewis you know." "Do what with Lewis?" "You know... sleep with him, the horizontal mumbo, sex." "You are drunk." I replied. Of course I was drunk too. My girlfriend Mary and I were sitting at her kitchen table. We were supposed to be planning her upcoming wedding, but a pitcher of marguerites later Mary started in again on the considerable...
Their conversation was natural and casual. She told him a little about her job and why she was in D.C. The day had been long and the meeting had been intense and exhausting, but they had accomplished much. She thought they would be able to finish by mid or late afternoon on Friday, at which point she would decide whether or not to head back to Richmond. She...
All characters are 18 years old or older. ***** Yellowstone: Miles above the Earth's surface Numenor Echo III hung in orbit over its target Yellowstone National Park. Its refined sensors scoured the area for the location of the power plant. The data received from the Watcher was quite specific about certain geological structures that would be critical for...
All sexually active characters in this work of fiction are aged 18 years or older. ***** I love skiing. I was lucky enough to live overseas with my parents for a couple of years and during that time I fell in love with the sport. Unfortunately where I live in Australia we're a long way from any snow. It's also really expensive. Fortunately my parents a...
This one took on a life of its own. I sketched out critical scenes I wanted to make sure were written and followed a logical sequence of events. Pfft!! As always, I begin writing a scenario and whoosh, I am off into the Unforeseen Country. I am like where the hell did that come from? I am forced to ask myself critical questions. Is it cool? Does it add to th...
Prologue: For nearly a millennium, the Skarnoth Empire had prospered. Rising humbly from the Vergessenna River valley, over the centuries the small city state had expanded by leaps and bounds, and eventually had gained power, wealth and prosperity that was unrivaled in all of the world during the time of legends. At its peak, Skarnoth ruled territory that s...