Mary was standing in her nightgown when the undertaker's carriage took her stepfather's body away. She was standing with her face half hidden behind the frame of her room's single window; the candle snuffed and the northern-country moon settled somewhere behind the branches of the chestnut trees. The wind, as it was, came and went and she waited for it, and...
Hoffman's visit to Saskia's flat was an eye-opener for both her and Harry. They discovered what seemed a fair gentle man with a very mysterious business. Harry still could not place him when he was a teenager, even though those days were as clear as day in his mind. The stranger invited them both to his penthouse apartment in town. They were surprised to s...
The gallery opening was not very crowded, so I quickly noticed the slender young woman examining one of the better paintings. She was of the type I find most appealing: small in physique, almost flat chested, with bright gray eyes and soft chestnut, slightly wavy hair below her shoulders. Her skin had a warm glow; her expression was serious, almost grave. Sh...
Cloud looked across the attic, spotting the cardboard box she had been looking for. A sad smile formed on her face and without hesitation, she kneeled next to it, unafraid of the memories she knew it would kick up. With trembling hands, she opened the box like it was a rare treasure. To Cloud, it was just that. This box held her past. The past that she both...
Famke struggled along the beach. The going was tough as the fierce gusts of north-western wind blew sand into her face, the tiny grains stinging her skin and nearly blinding her. She was cold and her feet were sore from trudging across the dunes and the vast expanse of the beach, but she dared not go back yet. Her stepfather would expect her to come home wit...
I'm the proprietor of a small gay bookstore and coffee shop in Dallas. The truth however is that the coffee shop is really a front for a gay sex club. Patrons visit the coffee shop. Some customers become members of our VIP lounge. The VIP lounge is a back area with couches and occasional live music. The VIP lounge is also the gateway to a hidden area of t...
Mandy felt so alone. Miles away from home, she was stuck in a strange, intimidating college where she knew no one. She'd tried to make the best of it, but her situation just kept getting worse and worse. She'd been forced to endure a humiliating gym class in which her coaches made her do exercises that displayed her voluptuous body in vulgar ways. She should...
I'll admit that when I first met her, I didn't like her. Who am I talking about? Stephanie Mendes. The six-foot-tall, sexy young Black woman who tried out for the Blackstone University Varsity Cheerleading Squad and became its Captain. Why didn't I like her? It had to do with her almost supernatural beauty, her extremely bossy ways and her attitude. Now, don...
Amber’s backyard was a place of magic and imagination. Looking back now, I realize how much I grew up in that place, how much the shimmering emerald grass meant to me; so wide and untouched, bespeckled with golden drops of dandelion buds. There are certain things in life—ordinary things that most adults have long-forgotten—that are the foundations of daily...
Planet Luntanu, Alpha Squad Base Camp: Eydiir pushed the girl out of the way and flung her kligat at a large, four-legged creature with a tusk-flanked muzzle, striking one of the tusks and bouncing off as the creature invaded the campsite, emitting a terrible bellow. Sasha grabbed a large branch from the ground and raised it. "Everybody get out of the way!...