I stood waiting patently at the airport arrival gate, eagerly looking out for the couple returning from holiday. Amongst the crowd, I saw them hand in hand. They waved to me and I waved back. Any onlooker would have assumed I was meeting a happy couple back from their holiday. Little would they know this was my wife with her long standing boyfriend! My wife...
Carl stopped dead in his footsteps as he came to the door of the laundry room. It was at the bottom of a set of dark and dingy stairs, in the basement of his tenement building where he was staying. As a college student, he couldn't afford his own place, so he was left doing a sort of "community" living arrangement, until he was done the semester at least. He...
More bulletins from the cutting edge of biology...if you're new to this story, you'd better read the first four chapters or you won't know who's who and what's going on...sorry, but I'm new to this serial stuff... Two weeks later, Sophie was a fully-fledged member of the research team. She turned out to have an extraordinary fund of arcane botanical knowle...
Chapter 9 – For Who You Love. ***** Note from the author. The biggest thank you to my wonderful editor, CaptainsSiren. All one could ask for in an editor and more. Reader Warning. Please be aware that this chapter deals with sexual non-consent. Please check the story tags before reading if you are not sure if you are ok with the subject matter. ***** Th...
Disclaimer: I have tried to make sure my historical information is correct and I'd like to think I haven't offended any Native Americans peoples with the telling of this tale. I am 1/8th Cherokee and am proud of that heritage. I'm not trying to show any Native Americans in a bad light... that is not my intention. Author's Note: The English-Cheyenne word tra...
Kale – Hawaiian; Strong and Manly Zurine – Spanish; White Part 16 The air hung heavily in the small, crowded conference room. The small group, ten men and one woman, surrounding the large table was becoming weary. Hours on end every day for the past week, they would discuss, dispute, and debate about their militaristic options, and then depart without any...
The next day Lorchan and I didn't have a chance to talk until after work because he wasn't in the lab during the first half of the day. When it was time for dinner I began packing my stuff up for the day as Lorchan walked over to where I was standing. He grinned at me and placed his hand on my lower back while I put everything in order. I could feel my arous...
Chapter Four: Chantel Hams it up with Kerri and Friends. Beep, beep, beep, my alarm clock goes off. Lying under my fluffy covers and on my satiny bed sheets, face mushed half buried in a pillow I awake, glance at that damn clock and see 9:00am. It's Sunday and I do not have to be up at any specific time but I do not really like sleeping in as I feel it wast...
With a gesture from her old and arthritic hand she drew a devotee to open the gate, then bowing deeply beckoned Leo to follow her. She led Leopold into the building, through a corridor carved with upturned elephants trunks into a chamber lavishly decorated with gaudy hangings and plush low sedan chairs. Scattered around the room were tall hookahs and on gild...
Harriet Harper did not cry at her mother's funeral, far from it. As a light rain fell on the few people in black that attended, most as local volunteers, Harriet did her best to control a smile of relief as the coffin was lowered into the grave. At 42, she had led a life as a spinster which had been enforced by the tyrannical woman, she venting her ire on th...