As the 'Jean-Paul' and the three other ships started their last jump towards Heaven Five. Their plans set and ready for a hopefully peaceful bluff. The outer rim... Far away from any Holy Company planet was the partially terraformed orb called Kellos. It took months for messages to reach the far flung Reacher planet and even longer to get there by ship. No...
Kirkwall, Orkney, 2051 ... "So you're awake finally," said a voice close by, sounding echoey to Jessamy Beech's ears as if they were inside a bare room somewhere. It was difficult to be sure as her hearing seemed somewhat muffled. Her head was buzzing. She remembered a crowd on the steps of Kirkwall's St Magnus Cathedral. Surging forward ... the militia ......
Author's ed. notes: Based on comments from some readers, I find it necessary to include this standard note: This story is about married couples swapping. If you don't like that subject, or think it's unrealistic for couples to swap and still be happily married - don't read this story! Also, based on some stupid criticisms, and yes I mean stupid, assume all...
Cuthbert's restaurant hid on a tiny street near the Riviera county club, where the entire block thrived under a canopy of red maple leaves succumbing to the early fall. A wind picked up that evening, but the leaves still had enough guts to hold on and stain the evening light a brilliant crimson, inviting Kim to breathe deeply and flow lightly up the path to...
~~Chimera~~ "We are in luck," he said. "Gaia has provided." Pinna and Medusa were up the moment the words were out his mouth. He waved them to sit back down, and he walked over to join them next to the satyr. "Did you run into anyone?" Bellerophontes said. "Anyone out there that might be trouble?" "It is as you said. The villages are far from here, but I...
For me, the summertime was our season for pillow talk. Ripe with erotica, maybe it was the warmer weather that necessitated wearing fewer clothes and my wife, Gloria, walking around in a bikini and attracting the leering looks of men that inspired my dirty thoughts about her. For whatever the reason, during our pillow talking sessions, I told Gloria all that...
~~Jack~~ Alone, in the old, abandoned tunnels, and soon to enter Azamel's hole in the ground. He didn't want to be here, but it was important, too important. With the Invictus, meeting the elders was an imposing affair of big leather chairs and long hallways. With the Uratha, meeting Avery was as cozy as sitting down on a couch, next to a bomb. With Azamel...
Every so often, the authors and assorted perverts who hangout in the Author's Hangout overcome the urge to pontificate and/or procrastinate long enough to participate in a writing exercise. We are writers, after all, and must behave in a writerly fashion from time to time lest we incur the wrath of CharleyH. This pot luck stew featuring transportation-relat...
Lina's trip to her grandfather's village up in the mountains was not a well-thought out decision; all she needed was to escape the frantic rhythm of her life and, most importantly, to be away from everything reminding her of Peter—he had died of alcohol poisoning and everything in the apartment they had shared for two years was just a cold reminder of how sh...
I'd like to describe something that happened many years ago at the start of my college career. Something I did. People will probably end up hating me when they hear about it, but I want to tell the story anyway. It's rather erotic in my opinion. I still think that, even now I'm older and more mature and wouldn't carry on the way I did back in those days. He...