Act 1 - Gathering Darkness Chapter 1 - Birthday Presents Sydney's head hurt and turning over to block out the daylight streaming in through the motel window did nothing for the rest of his body either. He groaned loudly and Peter Bond called from the bed beside him, "Not the best this morning big fella!" "Please Bondy, don't shout," he whispered back, his...
EDUCATIONAL REFORM Skjold "Golden Arm" Odinsson was late to his class on Diffeomorphic Transformations of Nonlocal Semi-Logical Quasi-Riemannian Manifolds. Again. He tried to enter the lecture hall as unobtrusively as possible. Not an easy task given the circumstances. He took his usual seat directly behind the girl with the golden cornsilk hair. She turne...
What follows is our joint submission for the "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" challenge. Some of you who are older (ancient) may recognize that this submission was inspired by the classic Hollywood film "It Happened One Night." Which means that we changed the characters, swapped the sexes, seriously altered the plot, and wrote a whole new story, but we thoug...
This is a story strictly for fun and much of the source ideas are from all over the place. Have fun and enjoy. Thinker, Cutpurse, Demon... Vamp October 1890: My father had told me from a young age, he had said... "Son, if you are going to survive and prosper on the streets of this great city, you are going to have to be smarter than the cops, quicker tha...
I deeply appreciate the enthusiastic reception you gave Whatever Your Heart Desires. It made me feel like a million bucks to write it, and doubly-so that you felt the same to read it. This is the mirror image of that story; a much darker telling for those of you who like it nasty. This story contains some unpleasant, but real-life imagery. It is entirely fic...
This is not a Halloween story. I just added the bit at the end in honor of the holiday. Hope you enjoy. ................................................ He just showed up one day, and the bar owner did everything but kiss his ass in front of everyone. He even set up a small table in the back near the restrooms, and no one was allowed to sit there except h...
Mindy was already home when I dragged myself through the door at seven. The minute she saw me, her face dropped and then brightened back up a little. "So how did it go today? You don't look like things went very well." "I don't know Mindy; the world out here just doesn't seem to be working like it should. My first interview was good. I thought I made a goo...
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...
"Cookies & Cream" Chapter One: "Cherry" It was a summer we would never forget. It was a time when love is truly blind and the heat turned up tremendously. That heartfelt camp with an ice cream parlor and diner in the center of it all was magical to me. My friends and I will never forget this place. It all started on Memorial Weekend, two weeks after...
This is Part Two of a two-part story. I realize now that the timing of that phone call was something, not just fortuitous, but providential, perhaps the divine intervention that had eluded me previously. I know that sounds pompous and self-indulgent, but after what Luna had said to me last evening about how others in the office perceived me, I knew my per...