Cassidy waited in the doctor's reception area with a mixture of confidence, anticipation and some nervousness. This was surprising as she was an experienced RN, very familiar with doctors' offices and hospitals. However, this was not a normal physical exam she was waiting for. In fact, it was part physical and part final job interview. Cassidy had recently...
I just don't like you very much," Beth said, with her eyes glowering at mine across the candle-lit table of the Italian restaurant. "Well, at least the food was good" I replied, thinking I had never had better cannelloni, or sat through a dinner with someone more disagreeable. "Sometimes, Thomas, I like to imagine different kinds of hell. Tantalus under t...
Dame Sara Illou, Knight of the Land, sat astride her steed Snowglide as the mare carefully picked her way up the mountainside. She and Sophie had split up that morning, both agreeing that they would return to the camp that evening if neither of them found anything. Sophie had gone east, and Sara had gone west. Below her she could see the huge waterfall that...
Dr. Anne Frankenstein stared at the flask in her hand. Weeks of work decoding Jekyll's increasingly insane ramblings, gathering materials, and applying every modern technique to create the amber fluid. A chemical to bring suppressed elements of personality to the foreground. One strong enough, in the proper dose, to tame a wolf man. The moon would be full...
The world was not always this way. Though few remember it, and even fewer choose to speak of it, there was a time when things were different. Before disease ravaged the land. Before the great feminization. Before the influx. Before the Femocracy. It was whispered that once white men had been just that: men. It was nearly impossible to believe, seeming more t...
I could hear the music faintly wafting from the ballroom below. Checking myself in the full length mirror for what must have been the hundredth time this night, I smoothed the non existent wrinkles in my ball gown, adjusted the diamond encrusted tiara, careful not to mess up my hair, and, after taking a deep breath, walked into the hallway toward the spiral...
Chapter Fourteen: Home, Bitter Home Evenings were hell, a return to loneliness, a self-imposed solitary confinement. Returning home was the equivalent of lowering myself into a dark insect infested pit. It was a deep well with a dank and slimy interior. I had no interests or hobbies and now no appetite outside Biprods Incorporated. I existed solely for Ms....
Except for Terri getting a good look at a cow moose for the first time in her life, the hike back to camp was enjoyable but uneventful—until we had to cross the creek. Terri had exchanged her hiking boots for her flip flops before we began crossing the creek. I led the way so that she would have an idea of what to expect as far as the depth of the water wa...
Anna wasn't sure what she and Charlotte would do that evening, but she was glad today was over. Her parents were away for the weekend and she'd asked her friend over. The weather was good, a fairly average summers day so there was no reason they couldn't get out into the town tomorrow clothes shopping. And of course Saturday night was clubbing night. A cha...
He knew it was a mistake to check out the movie channels after the fifth one he flipped through had the unmistakable name of a soft-core skin flick that Skinamax often showed early in the morning. It was cable, and pay, but it still seemed odd to Sam that they would show them at 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning. What if a child were to see it while searching f...