"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Jessica asked for what had to be the third time that night. Her sorority sister, a short, slight Asian girl named Macy, laughed. "Come on, Jessica, this is a fucking amazing idea. It's not every day you get to summon a demon. Can you imagine? Jessica, Alyson, and Macy, Demon-fucking-hunters. Hella." She flipped her long...
I was DOA - dead on arrival. Really. I have the medical records to prove it. My story was all over the news. I appeared on the nationally syndicated talk shows. Everyone loved the part about how the ambulance crew was leisurely wheeling me to the morgue after the car crash. I suddenly sneezed and sat up, scaring the life out of them. A publisher offered me...
There is something special about flying. Perhaps it is the fact that I do not often fly. Perhaps it is the fact that each trip is special for a different reason: to visit a close friend, or perhaps to meet a new client. But a recent flight became even more special. Sitting at the gate, I could tell by the rising volume around me that more and more people...
It ran in the New York Times on May 10th 2008 in a short, but touching article and although it was over a week late and I discovered the article in a literary blog, the title: "Elaine Dundy, Author of 'The Dud Avocado' is dead at 86," I was shocked and saddened. Elaine Dundy actually died on May 1st from a heart attack only a few weeks after I had read the b...
(Authors disclaimer: Art pictured is not my own, credit goes to the artist (Possibly Triuni). All characters are at least 18 years old and/or considered sexually mature for their species.) The bell above me jingles as I push open the front door and enter the bookshop. Discovering the bookshop by chance during my wanderings, I had immediately made a beeline...
Ami sat at her desk thumbing through the sales records of the high-class 5th avenue corporation that she worked for. She was the executive sales manager, hired because of her expertise. That alone allowed her to travel to all parts of the globe. Many of these trips were to exotic places like Hawaii. She was often accompanied by her husband, William. She was...
Hello, everyone! Just a quick note, I'm planning to have a lot of build-up in this story, so there won't really be any sex until later on. Hope you enjoy it regardless, though! It's an idea I've had for a long while now. ^^ -~*~- Have you ever felt overwhelmed with so much joy that you started to question whether or not what was happening wasn't just a dre...
It was Tuesday, and everyone knows that Tuesday is a great day to buy books. I am what some would call a bookworm, others would just say I have a rare form of LOCD, literary obsessive compulsive disorder. By my own account, I am a collector. My house is my evidence; it is full of books. I own fifteen four-shelf bookcases. My coffee table is made of books and...
Nothing more relaxing than a good book after a warm shower, Tammy thought as she settled down next her husband on the couch, clad only in the soft bathrobe she got for Christmas and a towel around her head. She was about halfway into the book, that point where the plot has been pretty well established and things were really starting to get interesting. A fri...
Lately, my mind seemed to be filled with fantasies of him. It’s unusual for me to fantasize in such detail about someone I don’t even know. But in just the short time since I had met him, I've found that he is invading my private thoughts frequently. I suppose it could be something about the way he just stared at me that day in the book store. I’ll admit, it...