We were sitting facing each other across her living room, the television was on but neither of us was paying attention to what was showing. There was a sexual tension in the air as Karen and I both knew that tonight it was finally going to happen. We had joked about this moment for over a year, but even when I reached her house I was sure she must have chang...
Joey Hammond sat in a dark corner of the bar, unobserved and reclusive. A glass of straight Jack Daniels stood in front of him his throat still warm and tingling from his last sup. The blue grey smoke from his third Marlboro of the hour curled in wisps about his head and hung in the stale, motionless air. He breathed in the smells and aromas of the bar not...
The story I am about to tell you is true. Names of people and places have been changed (OK, omitted - who am I kidding?) to protect (mostly) the innocent, but also the guilty. How am I sure it's true? You're going to have to trust me on this, but I heard the first-hand account from a person who has never lied to me in any way, shape, or form; and I have abso...
3 May 2019 Behavioral Studies 351 Kiley Rogers A Study in Human Behavior Under Unexpected Circumstances Hypothesis: When confronted with unexpected circumstances, most people are helpful and polite and would help a person through a difficult situation. Methodology: Wear easily removable clothes and restrain myself in a public park with a notice offerin...
Yet another common trope in modern media, the hot police woman on a team in a drama series, good recent examples are Chris from S.W.A.T, Tani and Kono of Hawaii 5-O, Andy Mcnally and Gail Peck from Rookie Blue, Jules Callahan of Flashpoint as well as Dana Scully from the X-Files, in almost all cases the women in question inevitably become Damsels in distress...
Standing outside the private diagnostic clinic, the rain came down in buckets. The kind of rain, in big drops, so closely spaced, that if you looked up and opened your mouth, you'd drown. That kind of rain. Standing there, just under the overhang, I was still mostly dry. The girl—well, woman—standing next to me wearing a thin cotton dress, bare shoulders,...
It was 1956, and Bethany was only sixteen growing up in the small town of Bakersfield, Iowa. It was an idyllic time to be a teenager, in an idyllic small Midwestern town. Bethany had always believed that she was blessed to have been born into such a time and place to what, after a time of trial, would become such a wonderful family. She was born a year befor...
The pain brought her to her knees, then pitched her forward, her face to the floor. If she had been in a yoga class, it would have been called Child's Pose and she would have been calm, relaxed, perhaps even in a state of bliss. Instead, she was rigid, either in the grip of a wave of agony, or simply in anticipation of the next horrid spasm. "Breathe; just...
When Barbara had been a little girl there were only two kinds of people out in Gotham after dark, victims and criminals. That had changed seven years ago when he had arrived seemingly from no where. In Gotham most people could clearly divide the history of their city into two distinct eras. Before the Bat and After. After the Bat arrived in Gotham there were...
The Coral Spire. A glistening construct afforded to the wealthiest nobles and most privileged of officials to house in whether permanently or interim stay. To the eyes of thieves it was also filled with variant treasures. Known to be the greatest treasure that lay within was known as the Coeus Gem, a jewel that emits a great bright bluish light when exposed...