My husband and I really are not the most adventurous couple when it comes to sex. We've been married for over twenty years and I suspect that a lot of people would think that we're pretty tame (boring) sexually. I will say that we both really enjoy our sex life but when things would get a little stale we'd have an honest discussions about sex and things woul...
Although it was not even noon yet the Roman mosaic floor already felt like an oven. It was almost time to take a long siesta as it would be too hot to continue working at this archaeological dig. Still two weeks to go at this project recovering the old Roman villa surprisingly deep inland. And then she had to return to her boring teaching job in Germany teac...
The caravan crawled ever so slowly throughout the burning Yithrab desert. Camels were the logical choice of the merchants, as the burning sun and the dry road made horses impractical. Even so, the merchants had covered even the camels with extra sheets to avoid the murderous glare of the sun. Still the journey was worth it. The Oasis city of Madinat-al-Qal...
I wistfully looked at the painting as I walked by it and paused. The warm deep desert colors radiated from the canvas; the soft blues and golds washing over me like a mellow summer day. My ankle itched as I looked at the beautiful single silver belled ankle bracelet laid upon the golden hued silk cloth beside the blue rounded jar. I almost caught a scent of...
This day was a particularly hot one, temperature soaring faster than the quickest of birds could race across the sky. The day was proving to quickly be one that could not be at all merciful. Yet the hour was young, perhaps no more than two hours past daybreak. It would indeed be another miserable day. A single woman strays from the confines of that which wo...
The desert heat creates visible waves in the air as I look out upon the arid landscape. The stark desolate terrain mirrors the loneliness that I feel when you're gone. Time passes so slowly; I feel it's been days when only hours have passed. Yet I spend my time contentedly knowing that it was my decision to come with you to this place. I knew that I was mere...
I listen to a woman's voice singing in a language I have forgotten, drinking tea I can not name. In a place I can not pronounce. Yet for all that I spent years here. The air is full of the strange smells that are now as foreign to me, as I am to this place. Yet they are so very familiar at the same time. Haunting smells filled with old half-forgotten memori...
The skinny white dog was painted mid jump on the blue oval sign. Five bullet holes had pierced it. The rim of the holes had the metal bent backward. Rust, tiny red-brown pigments, had eaten in between the remaining paint. The sign was small and flimsy, just a little something that someone had screwed to the roof without a bench. It was a vestige of human ci...
Growing-up around dirtbikes and racing it wasn't a surprise to anyone when Jimmy began building a dirtbike for racing. But he wasn't interested in racing at big stadiums or doing goofy tricks while flying off of jumps. Rather his goal was to race in The Mojave Challenge. An elite series that raced in the western Mojave Desert over long-distances. A desert ra...
The year is set in 2205 in a post-apocalyptic world. It was a hot day in the desert, almost sweltering. One woman, a random traveler by the name of Tanya walks throughout the desert looking for a village to get something to eat. Being a vagabond by choice, she was learning how to survive on her in this harsh environment. But this land was treacherous and fil...