The title of this story suggests the content may be violent or involve mainly non-consensual sex. It does not. Most of my stories explore feelings, relationships and morals, and so does this one. It was supposed to be a short story, but I seem to have difficulty letting go of characters. ***** 'Mrs Beauchamp, your horse is ready.' Agnes heard her butler...
Author's Note: I'm going to be honest. I don't understand physics nor most weapons. I don't even understand medicine. If I made a mistake, then I apologize. *** The most cared for maiden, Princess Rahela, formerly a queen in her own right, she was now sleeping on her metaphorical deathbed. It was only a camping pallet, but that wasn't important. The medi...
I knew the marriage I had thought was happy and as close to perfect as one could be was over as soon as I heard that phrase come out of Sylvia's mouth. You guys know the one I am talking about. "Honey, we need to talk." Sylvia said to me that fateful Wednesday afternoon as soon as I entered the living room upon my return from work. She was sitting in the o...
************ AFTERWARDS, ANOTHER FORTY YEARS LATER Rowan held his beloved wife Gwenda extra tightly in bed, for she had been quite ill of late with a winter flux in her lungs that just would not depart, despite the treatments of the local medicus and the village wise-woman together. Even old Ashburn's best trained pupil, Doran, now the master medicus of T...
Once again, I'd like to thank Techsan for the marvelous editing job. I'd also like to thank everyone who rated and commented on the first chapter of my first story. This chapter contains a bit more character development, so I apologize before hand for the lack of "steamy" content. I am still getting the hang of telling the story in a way that doesn't have yo...
I waited in the interrogation room for what seemed like an eternity. My sense of time told me that it took me half an hour to pee, thanks to Livshitz' Uzi in my back. My interrogator, Daniellah Argov, was taking even longer. Random thoughts flashed through my head as I waited. What was this delay all about? Was she ordering up a thumbscrew to help with my in...
Bob Sharpe had stayed behind at Juniper base with a small army of techs and mechanics, and had brought along three truckloads of food and other supplies, along with two small tankers of fuel; one diesel and another of aircraft gas. One of the first things to be unloaded had been one of the smaller diesel generators liberated from one of the Chinese bases, a...
My beautiful wife Marizona had successfully turned around the small high school girls' volleyball team in only four short years. After the second consecutive state championship, larger schools began inquiring about her for their volleyball team's new head coach, even schools hundreds of miles away. We listened to their offers of more money, better facilities...
It was the sixth of Lagufæ, the late-mid summer month of the Goddess of the Sea, before Rowan had regained much of his strength once again and realized probably for the first time that his old life here in this village was now over for good. His master's-piece done, his relationship with his old master Gorge was now rather different; not strained, but things...
Prologus~ the Feast of Fatus Majorus~ Neophytes are Summoned Trevethall, the capital city of the Western Reach, bustled with celebratory anticipation. This was the day of the Feast of Fatus Majorus, the great decree, the yearly recalling of the Codes of Assumption which were revealed to the forebears of the Shining Realm, whereby they were bound in mutual...