The work sent me here. Being that it was a quasi-governmental corporate job, the company provided everything, all I had to do was show up - corporate apartment in a corporate apartment complex with corporate furniture, a couple pieces of southwest prints on the wall like you'd see in an auto insurance office. Not very homey, but I wasn't looking to start a f...
Note- A twist on the classic spaghetti western with Scarlett Johansson as the Good, Liz Hurley as the Bad and Haley Atwell as the Horny. xxx New Mexico, 1862. The woman with no name stood next to her pony, Scarlet, and squinted in the hot sunlight. She took a last drag on her disgusting cheroot and spat black spit onto the dusty ground, hitting a cricket...
Lady Jezebel Renoux's lips puckered slightly as she regarded the girl in front of her. The brunette was pretty enough, in a kind of pixie-ish way. She had a nice round set of breasts on her that had probably had some work done on them prior to her being brought here. They were nice but Jezebel felt they were kind of out of place on the small-framed girl. She...
Many, many moons before I met my man, I had a friend - let's call him Arnold. And I do mean a friend. Arnold was gay, or so my innocent self believed. I was about 18 at the time, and thought I was a worldly woman. A fumble at 15 made me believe I wasn't so innocent but turns out the cherry was still there, but that's another, much more boring, story. So any...
7. Market Day See, there's this complex chain of dependencies. I loved Callie and she loved me, we both loved Jess and she loved both of us back, and neither of these wonderful women fully trusted Sati and so neither did I. This wasn't something I'd discussed with them, me being mostly incapable of discussion, but some indelible part of me knew. And so Sati...
The days at the Plantation grew shorter and the temperature began to drop. We had harvested crops, canned food, mulched the gardens, prepared seed for the spring planting, and brought in more fuel and firewood for the winter. I stood beside Maggie in the kitchen, laboring away over the stove as we cooked for the fifty or so residence who we had come to know...
Two months went by before Daryl and I were no longer watched like hawks. John had taken a strong liking to him and the longer we were there, the more respect Daryl earned but it wasn't all daises and tulips. With Daryl's new standing in the group came resentment from others less talented and shrewd than he. They had been in the group longer; some were there...
She pulled the bell-shaped flower down gently burying her nose to fully enjoy the fragrant almond scent. "Absolutely beautiful. You're getting so big too!" Red bell-shaped blossoms dropped elegantly from the tall canopy, surrounding her as she spread the food near the thick center trunk. It was early morning and the flowers were just opening, releasing the...
The barking of dogs in the not-so-far distance made Naomi's heart beat even harder somehow and her legs pump with the desperate energy of someone who knew they couldn't be caught. Shouting followed the sound of the dogs and the crashing of many people in pursuit could be heard as her pursuers fumbled through the thick underbrush of the huge oak forest. The w...
That was such a fucked up dream. I reached for my diary and wrote. Dear Diary, Friday, 21st of March, 2020. It's 8:30 am and I just woke up from the strangest of dreams. It was my fifteenth birthday and among the guests were my husband, Christopher, and Sebastian. They both looked exactly like they do now. We were out playing on the grass when all the boys...