**Matt's dream is a flashback recalling his boudoir photoshoot with his wife and her maid of honor, Justine.** "It's expensive and I don't think we need to spend the money, Matt," Jenn said firmly. Wedding planning had come in spurts, but the majority was done and with only two months to go I was glad that we were in the home stretch. Honestly, Jenn had do...
CHAPTER ONE: Before Sunset He decided to run the mask through two more rinse cycles than he ran with the rest of the costume. Washing the head-piece was usually the most important part of laundry day. He spent so much time breathing in his own breath through the thing that he really didn't need a three-day-old body-funk included. He knew this from experienc...
Eighteen matriarchs sat around the long table in the royal meeting room on Genthalas, the gathered Maliri speaking quietly to one another as they awaited their hostess, the atmosphere tense. When Queen Edraele swept into the room, all conversation ceased, the matriarchs watching her approach the table. "My sincere apologies for keeping you waiting," Edraele...
Three Square Meals Ch. 133 *This is incredible! To think that this citadel has been in existence since the time of the Kyth'faren!* Tashana gasped, gazing up in awe at the majestic high-arched ceiling as they walked along the corridor of the Kyth'faren castle. *Yet it still looks like construction was only completed a matter of days ago!* *How old is it ex...
*Wake up sleepyhead, it's time for lunch,* Alyssa whispered, her soft telepathic voice meandering through John's mind like a lover's caress as she roused him from his slumber. John felt a warm curvy body next to him and when he opened his eyes, he found himself lying next to Irillith's luscious azure figure. With a start, he suddenly remembered that this wa...
Fleet Admiral Lynette Devereux walked along the bustling corridor, her security detachment clearing a path so that she could proceed uninterrupted. Despite the early hour, this area of Olympus shipyard was teeming with personnel, with many thousands of navy crewmen recalled from leave and ready to muster out to their ships. The officers amongst the men and w...
MORNING | DOIN' JUST FINE The metal guardrails had greyed, and the cement blocks which contained them had chipped and cracked. The wooden boards upon which those blocks sat had begun to splinter and bend from years of weather and heavy foot traffic. Avery barely recognized the spot where he stood. In front of him was a statue of a long-dead boy, important...
Three Square Meals Ch. 128 Sakura watched the long lines of infested Trankarans, the stoic republic citizens waiting patiently in the docking collar that connected the Kirrix dreadnought to the Invictus. There were so many freed prisoners in need of treatment that the queue seemed to stretch for miles, snaking through the innards of the alien ship until the...
(Note to readers: This is the entire story, including all three parts and all nine chapters. To read this in stages, click on 'Bookmark Story' at the bottom of the last page. All characters in this story are at least 18 years old. The story is set after vaccine availability brings the pandemic under control. Most of the characters are African-American. The s...
Thank you for reading my serial novel, 'Tom & Sue & John & Debbie.' If you haven't read Chapters 1-23, please do so before reading this chapter otherwise you'll be missing out on all the details of the story as it was told to me. It's Monday on State's campus after the big football game against the Irish, and after a two week absence, it's time for Donna t...