Lord Fenwick was woken by a knock on the door. "Enter." "Begging your pardon, mi Lord, but you said to wake you if you slept past nine o'clock." He looked over to the grandfather clock in the corner: five past nine. "Thank you, Jane." He swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat there rubbing his eyes. "I've brought some warm water for you to shave....
Authors Note: Yes every now and then there is a chapter that comes along that might be boring but needed. This one fits that category well as you will find out in the coming chapters. I have the story complete but have been meticuously going through the story and fixing the noted comments from Chapter one. I hope I have done that to every ones satisfaction....
Five years have passed since part 1. Androids have quickly developed from being expensive specialist machines designed for dangerous work underground or in nuclear power stations to be common in all kinds of businesses. Recently androids, increasingly indistinguishable from humans, have started appearing in the homes of the wealthy and technology-obsessed, m...
A year ago, our kids threw us a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party. It was a huge splash with all the trimmings. All our friends were there, we got a ton of gag gifts and life was pretty good at that moment even though I knew we were slowly drifting apart living in the same house together. My wife, Carol, and I met in our senior year of college and the...
Thanks for all of the supportive comments and constructive criticism. There's more coming, but I want to apologize in advance if the next few chapters take a bit longer to appear. Sometimes life interferes with the best-laid plans ... ***** Inavar's men took me down to the docks. That is, they sent me down the hill, and followed me. That way, it didn't l...
It was mid-1950s America. It was Mrs Reilly's house- one of the finest in Brewer, Minnesota- on a sunny afternoon. Under the chandelier, below the big oil canvas of naughty Cupid being spanked by Venus, in front of an audience of well-attired ladies smoking cigarettes and shrouded in their perfumes, and schoolgirls excited to be witness, the drama was now re...
Threne had seen this dark skinned woman before, but he was in a form she wouldn't recognize. He changed his form very often, you see. They were in a pub; it was just before the sun began to set. The room was a world of brown, gray, and orange. Brown woods, gray stones, and orange from the firelight that would soon seem brighter as the sky would darken. T...
Be patient! This is not a gang bang.... but its good, reeeeaaallly good because its true. I guess I should start by saying that I was never one of those girls who let a guy do whatever he wanted with her. I was definitely not prude, but I also tried to have class. I was always told that I was beautiful in an unconventional way (by my mom mostly). Just for t...
Blake went down the stairs and out the door to his apartment. It had been a long day, and he wanted a drink. The problem was there was not anything to drink, and it was too far to walk to the grocery store. A walk to the gas station would have to do. With a pocket full of change, he set out into the early night, turning left once he left his yard to follow t...
It is October and that means that it is time for the annual Just Plain Bob Invitational. I am constantly bombarded with comments saying things like "You call that a story? My ten year old can do better than that." Also heard a lot is "If that were my story xxxxx would have xxxxxxx and xxxxx would have xxxx." So here is everyone's chance to show me how it sho...