An Awkward First Date Kathryn M. Burke Joelle Wallace didn't like to go on dates—well, not very much. She could never summon up the enthusiasm for meeting someone new, since she regarded the likelihood of such a meeting leading to anything long-lasting or permanent to be little short of minuscule. She was unusually reserved for a woman—maybe for anyone....
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Dame on the Dune © Gene Majors Three weeks into the fall quarter of my second year at the Summerston Junior College (1962), our JC Tennis Club decided we needed a break before the fall round of tournaments began. To us, a break, meant an all-day picnic, waterskiing, and a general sight-seeing cruise around the river canyon seventy five miles to the east. To...
Chapter Flavor: "Lime Sorbet" All right, folks, it's time for a little backtrack in time! Let us move back to the Saturday afternoon in early June. (If I remember right, I think it was the sixth.) It was between noon and one, and Hillary Fox was still in her office. Many of her colleagues left the firm earlier for lunch while she stayed behind. Her headach...
Did you ever have someone push your buttons to the point that you were staring into the face of doing something you'd never thought you would do? Well, that's where I am right now, staring at three cans of gasoline that I'm getting ready to load into the trunk of my car. I can't believe I let him push me to the point that I'm willing to take this chance....
Copyright© 2012 by Stultus Synopsis: In a grove near you, pagans and other Vermont towns folk are gathering to celebrate Samhain, the night when the veil between the living and the dead, between this world and others, is thin... and sometimes a passageway for ancient evils! Can one modern witch and a very confused local town sheriff put an end to a hundred...
The land is tainted with endless blood shed. It runs thick, despite the aging of time. There was a bad miasma about this world. It was due to the conflict of the endless Shinobi Wars. Time and time again, power struggled to take over. Leaving only a scar upon the land, and a high count of casualties. No one really knows when, but as time went by things becam...
We were an ancient race, but that didn't matter. Our planet was dying after millennia of careless ecological practices. We had to find a way to endure... We lacked the resources and technology to exodus from our dying homeworld but we were able to develop far reaching interstellar probes. Our probes had reached the far ends of our galaxy and had yet to retur...
This is a story about Samantha, a young white woman in her late 20’s, and her new husband Eric. Samantha has jet black hair that goes roughly half way down her back, blazing green eyes, and a very petite figure (think 32-22-32). Eric is a white man also in his late 20’s and has light brown hair and blue eyes, and is pretty athletic. Samantha also has a twin,...
She woke up to a banging headache and the realization that she'd been defeated. The battle had been a routine one, fighting a pocket of viral activity in a isolated region of the Digital World. As she looked round, she noticed she was in a small cage, tall enough for her to stand easily, but only a foot square at the base. She noticed a few things quickly, t...