Mikona rushed in Grazia's room, flicking on the lights. "Princess, please get up! We need to get ready to meet your mother." "Ugh, go away, Mikona, it is too early in the morning!" Grazia groaned and burrowed further under the covers. Mikona frowned. She reached down and grabbed the bottom of the covers. "You need to get up, now!" she cried, pulling the co...
London, England 1581, Lady Roseline Plantagenet pressed herself against the cold stone wall outside her guardian's study, breathless with fear. Her maid had brought her the curt note an hour ago, from her guardian that demanding her presence. She had taken each step with trepidation. As she was about to knock on the oak door of the study, she had heard two...
Pusan, 1587 Chosun Dynasty of Modern Day Korea The storm that raged along the shores of Pusan was unusual for this time of year. The rainy season was not due for another few months but almost out of nowhere the sky blackened as the heavens unleashed their fury on the inhabitants of the coastal town. Fighting her way back to her home, Ji Eun cursed herself...
CHAPTER 6: TITANESS Introduction: The next chapter in the supposed adventures of a prep school teacher in the 1950s and 1960s. ***** So, the New Year began, it seemed, without potential entanglements. Bianca's replacement was a middle-aged man, and it was not till I took a football team to a near-by school that I came across a possibility. For presiding o...
Bound or Free? I was running. I usually went jogging every morning, having inherited the 'sturdy peasant build' of my Germanic ancestors and it was only with continued discipline that I could keep my tone and figure. Sure 48G-40-46 was on the opulent end of curvy, but the tendency to get chubby was one that I had fought since adolescence with relentless...
"Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders." ― Denis Diderot Fuck the all-bacon diets; the gastric sleeve; or washed-up celebrities hockin' multi-level marketing weight loss programs on late night TV! Most people would shed a hundred pounds, if they trashed their stupidity. Should you fail to have received the memo, the under...
Note- This is totally fictional and has no basis whatsoever in the truth. xxx "I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross." These were the very words that wealthy heiress Paris Hilton famously uttered as a drunken teenager. Now she was a mature thirty something the successful media personality and model was besotted by those of a darke...
Part Three: Chanakya Parvati expanded her territory by seeking out the larger kingdoms around her. She annexed Gwalior, then later Ajmer. She had perfected the technique of firmly squeezing kingdoms into submission. It was much cleaner than a full scale bloody assault and allowed easier assimilation of the conquered people. It involved 'retiring' the king o...
The caravan had stopped for rest. They had been moving for two days straight, pressed by hearsay that in the North, the King's army was being pushed back. There was no hard evidence of this – no envoys had come, no messengers to tell them to hurry. But the spirit that hung over them all was that of skepticism. Especially the Commander, the King's right hand...
Myself (smegger_29) and Kita would like to thank all our loyal readers for being so committed to our other stories. I would like to introduce you to our newest project and my baby, Spirit of the Sword. May it be as successful as its brethren. The wind stirred in the dawn air as the workers in the pit before Professor Hartlen slaved in the hot sun. It was...