Purple. All Tommy could see was purple. He was floating silently, surrounded by purple. He wasn't afraid; no, he wasn't really feeling anything at all. He could scarcely move but, strangely nothing in his body hurt. He gazed around languidly at his surroundings. The purple swirled around Tommy as if it was a liquid, but he moved through it as if it was air...
USS Surefoot, Deck 2 - Cadets' Quarters Alpha Squad's quarters were unevenly bisected, with the smaller side taken up by three sets of bunk beds and storage spaces for each occupant, and the larger side side by a desks, chairs, information and entertainment wall screens, and the door to the corridor, and the door to the twin toilets, sinks and sonic showers...
A second story in the same 'universe' as my first... different characters. In this case, an old lover suddenly returns bearing gifts... and fangs! ***** Brant Jarvis had been a vampire for about 300 years. However, he enjoyed the company of humans, even though he had friends among the others like himself. He'd had several human partners in his life, thou...
The office environment could be a stressful one. This wasn't exactly the boiler room, so to speak, but this office handed out complimentary stress balls with the company logo on them when they knew they'd be entering crunch time. Perhaps they wouldn't have needed to if they hadn't shed fifteen 'redundant' staff members last month. Holly had maintained her p...
A happy family had always been a little hard to come by in Sam's life. The relationship between his mom, Lucy, and dad for most of his life had always been strained and despite any efforts to hide the cracks from Sam as he grew up, he'd always sort of known. As it became harder and harder to hide the fact of it all from him, they had put less effort into t...
Last week was Josh's birthday, but last month was our three-month anniversary. We celebrated by checking into a nice hotel. The spa area had a Jacuzzi, which gave me an excuse to wear a bikini one last time. (The pool in the apartment complex is closed until spring.) I had hoped I could tease Josh by having my bikini "accidentally" come off a piece at a time...
Chapter 27 - The Final Summer At the end of May Burnside was in a rare upbeat mood when she returned from Europe with Wendy. She had met with the directors of several economics institutes and obtained what she wanted, scholarship slots for several of her students to study in different locations in France, Belgium, and Great Britain. Burnside already had pic...
© 1996 - Black Angora Press ONE: "Breakdown" Mark Petri swore loudly as he tried to regain control of the minivan. The road was supposed to be a 'state' highway, but the state certainly wasn't taking very good care of it. The pothole he just hit could have qualified for 'vat' status. Even with the brights on Mark wasn't able to see it until too late becaus...
Chapter 17 Introducing, Leah Tarred At seven sharp, Leah Tarred pulled into my driveway and honked the horn. "Tell her not to do that again, Aubrey," my mother said admonishing me. "I will, Mom," I said and ran out to greet Leah. Leah was a lithe, very flexible young thing, almost nineteen, with long brown hair and almond shaped eyes that hinted at some...
"Trust me," Kei whispered. "I'll be just fine." She had told me several times in recent months about the "special place" not far from her second home on the mountainside. When we stepped out of the car, I could feel the energy and magic of the area, but it was unlike anything I had ever previously experienced. I had to wonder if this was one of those fairl...