Author's note: this is an unapologetically nonhuman love story told from a twin perspective. This story, Echobright, tells the story from the male point of view; its sister story, Grey-Eye, tells the story from the female perspective. Enjoy. * * * I looked up to see three women perched on a stone parapet high above the street, their wings folded, their lon...
Carl was walking down the busy street talking to his wife on his cell phone. He was late and had called to apologize to her. Carl was a Lieutenant in the Coast Guard and Executive Officer of a small Cutter stationed in New York City. He had a meeting that ran longer than he anticipated and was late getting off his ship. Now he was on his way to the World Tra...
Jake, Gen and Tommy drove from the hospital with Jake leaning back the whole time. Jake could only shake his head he hadn't felt this bad in a long time. Hell he thought it felt almost like most of his life was being sucked from his body. Gen watched Jake the whole time that they were driving. It was true she was feeling slightly better but she knew that it...
Bob Franks rang the bell of Apartment A-13 and waited a moment. The door soon opened and a buxom 40-ish redhead stood before him, a quizzical look in her green eyes. She was dressed in a tight tank top and ragged denim shorts cut off to show maximum thigh. Her feet were in pink wedges at least 5" high. Bob nearly gulped in spite of himself. She was a little...
Opportunity: A narrative from Ms. Gimply's collection My room mate, Eileen, was away for the weekend with her boyfriend. Of course, I was jealous. I always told her that I didn't know how she managed to attract and keep a man since she was a high level para and completely dependent on her wheelchair. She isn't that good looking, either, but I don't tell her...
Hello all! When I first submitted this, it had been written on my iPhone's notepad, and was fraught with errors. Since then it has been edited, and I do believe all those pesky typos and autocorrect blunders are now nonexistent. Please let me know if you find anything though. I'd love feedback as well. Compliments are great, but I am most interested in gett...
Lily's soup was delicious. She had loaded it like a baked potato minus the sour cream, but with extra chives and real bacon bits and tons of cheese. Rogue had had a bowl and a half of soup while Antonio had helped himself to two large helpings and had offered to take the left overs home. Lily had been more than content with the outcome. She even wrote down h...
Androka, Madagascar Bridges quietly slides open the door to the communications room a couple inches allowing just enough room to slip in a flexible camera. Pulling out his PDA, the image of the room appears as clear as if he was looking at it firsthand. Inside the medium sized room sits many consoles with flashing lights and switches and a single human bein...
All his life, August White had dreamt of living happily ever after. When he was a little boy and his great aunt Mother Loose would told him bed time stories, he was never able to sleep until she said those magic words: "and then they lived happily ever after." Only then would he be able to close his eyes and drift to sleep. When August turned twenty four he...
Jim Nelson sat on the sofa waiting for his wife of sixteen years to come down the stairs. She had just come home from "working late" again, for the third time this week. The bad thing was this was less than the usual for the last seven months. Late hours, multiple out of town trips and "Girls Nights Out" happened all too regularly. That combined with the...