Note: The Luzon Bleeding Heart Pigeon is a ground pigeon with deep red markings on its chest that resemble a deep chest wound. It is, sadly, an endangered species. --------- A long time ago, when the hills were green with fruit trees and nothing covered the earth but flowering shrubs and soft grass, two doves, T'apat and Magiliw, fell in love. Their courts...
Chapter One Hundred Forty-Nine: Unrealised Potential ****Trigger Warning: Miscarriage**** I sat curled up in a ball, forehead resting on my knees, arms wrapped around my legs, trying not to think or feel -- or listen. I could hear my husband just outside the open door, whispering frantically to Alim and Jowan. They were acting like I couldn't hear them...
Michael found himself wandering into a grass hut village wearing only a disarming smile. 'Please don't stab me. Please don't stab the naked stranger'. The women of the village took note of him and quickly rushed their children and themselves inside the huts. Soon, Michael was surrounded by men dressed in animal furs and carrying sharpened sticks that had b...
I made her stop at this point, so I could replace the reel on the recorder. It took a few minutes to do this, I remembered to label the reel as I put it in the envelope, but was desperate to hear the next stage of her story. The light from the window was fading gently as evening advanced. O went to add wood to the fire from a coffer beside the hearth. It b...
The television droned on. Another rumored case near Frankfurt. Dr. Buchanan tapped a pen on his desk with one hand as he sipped coffee with another. On the desk, a dozen memos all marked urgent laid before him. All of them discussed unusual cases, but no two of them were the same. It was an old trap for doctors to fall into, and it was being fueled by panic....
This submission is an account of my actual colonoscopy and the succeeding events. It is 90% factual and 10% fantasy. For some it might be educational. Others, if you have an active imagination and can fill in the blanks, will find it amusing. I'll let the reader guess which parts are the result of my active imagination! ***** When a man reaches a certain...
Previously in Cockatoo: Jamie and Nin had made it back to Koh Samui after their journey to Bangkok to warn Kritsada. Jamie, Alex and Shane had sailed to the West Coast for a short vacation where Jamie and Shane had made love. The trio had sailed back and were in Cockatoo where they were attacked. Pao had stepped between Jamie and the attacker and been stabbe...
We were in the woods like we had been so many times before. Either on quaint picknicks, heartfelt hikes, or when you took my womanhood for the first time. This time we were by a creek, something you know that I loved, and the air was just brisk enough to be bearable by the light of the sun. We had been together for years and yet sometimes it felt as though...
Body Art: Piercing Another form of body modification is piercing. Piercing has also been around since the dawn of time. Nose piercing was first recorded approximately 4,000 years ago. The Bible in Genesis 24:22 Abraham requested his oldest servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, the servant found Rebekah, and one of the gifts he gave her was a "golden...
Mueller shook Chambers awake at 2:30 AM. He put his finger to his lips, using the sign to tell Chambers to be quiet. Mueller motioned with his hands for Chambers to grab his rifle and join him at the metal door. Someone was calling through the hole in the door. That someone had a decidedly female voice. That someone was also speaking in German. Mueller re...