Introduction: A substantial part of this story is based on factual information, true events in my life or from anecdotal accounts. Specifically, the French senior citizens center mentioned in the story actually exists. The French Ministry of Health promotes sex among seniors to promote mental and physical health. Sex in senior citizen residences is a theme t...
Every marriage, even the best of them, hits a make or break point, traditionally around the 7 year mark. You know, where one or both partners start to wonder if they'd made the right decision, and whether they might have been better off married to someone else. I wasn't one to break with that tradition, even though my marriage is far from traditional. You se...
That Saturday morning around eleven in the morning, Julia parked the car in the large structure and climbed out eagerly looking forward to the events around the corner. Lauren got out of the car with apprehension. She looked around nervously the parking structure. There were all sorts of people getting out of their cars, some wearing costumes and chanting ex...
It's nighttime. At last. Adam Shay smiled. He had been waiting for nightfall for ages. His kind simply loved the night. Daytime simply wasn't their element. Adam Shay, the six-foot-two, 230-pound black man who once played college football had become one of the undead not too long ago. He had become a vampire, and not just any ordinary vampire. He was the Mas...
I was in a mood. But that's every girl's right, isn't it? I remember what my mother used to say: she's in one of her moods again. It meant I'd done something bad, which was all too easy back then. But this wasn't like that at all -- this was a good mood, sort of. Restless and irresponsible, with no good cause. A just-let-out-for summer sort of feeling. By r...
Before starting ... This story adapts some aspects on Australian Aboriginal Culture. I have tried to be as accurate as I can be when doing so. Some names and terms vary between the different language groups. I had used the terms most commonly recognised in the wider community. When visiting areas in Australia it is customary to acknowledge the country. Eve...
A lot of people are surprised when they meet me. I guess that's because they've all got preconceived notions about what it's like to be me. My name is Azizah Khalif, and I'm a young Black woman of Somali descent living in the City of Orleans, in provincial Ontario. I recently graduated from Carleton University with a Master's degree in Computer Science and I...
I met Celeste at a party my friend Jerry invited me to. Given that Jerry happens to be gay, I already knew what kind of party it would be. But I let him talk me into going, because he said that some of the bi chicks didn't mind playing with straight guys like me. And I might get lucky and find two who wanted to share. Besides, he felt I needed to change the...
Prologue After ravaging the planet Earth with war after war, mankind finally threw off the shackles of its warlike tendencies. Seeing that the world governments would never be able to co-exist, a large consortium of multinational corporations decided to take power. These included robotics firms, arms dealers, computer manufacturers, and more. In short, the...
The world ended ever so suddenly. At first, people were talking about getting the cure to cancer. Then the world ended. How did we get to where we are right now? Men started dying, and it wasn't normal too. They started to lose their muscle mass and strength. Very soon they were dried up husks and they just withered away. The scientific community and the rel...