This is Chapter Four of a book. The characters and situations will be more understandable if the previous chapters have been read. Because it is a book, some of the chapters are more exciting than others, and some situations do not complete until the next chapter. I could have run this through my regular publisher and made a couple hundred dollars, but I am...
"It's not good news, ma'am." "Tell me." "We, um... we bled off almost a hundred and forty thousand liters of air before I could seal the breach. We're still losing a liter about every forty-two minutes... I... I can't find any leaks in my seal, which means we gotta have another leak somewhere else... It'll take time to find it." The escape pod—roughly the...
Story 1 I saw an ad on line recently from a local company looking for research subjects. They were looking for people to try a new type of virtual reality. It goes beyond any type already tried. It allows the person to feel what it is like to do something without actually having to be there. It is part technology, part medicine and part programming. Some o...
From where they stopped the plane it was obvious to Martin that something unusual was going on - something to do with security. They parked inside a hanger, hundreds of meters from any gate. The passengers, with all their hand-luggage, clambered down an old-fashioned ramp, were led through a tight cordon of terminal security people to a large bullpen-like...
Each time Helen and I met, she gave me the gossip centered around the people I had met at her party. I learned that Artemis was fucking Athena even with a 30 year difference in their ages. Apollo and Ares are gay and expect to be married as soon as the state makes it legal. She told me about certain guys that kept asking for my phone number or e-mail address...
Though I had a ticket to travel by the air-conditioned coach in Coromandel Express from Howrah to Chennai, I was waitlisted 21. Enquiries at the station confirmed my worst fears. That I would have to travel in the unreserved compartment as I could not be accommodated in the air-conditioned coach. Twenty-six hours, including two sweltering hot afternoons whil...
All right, how do I begin? Oh, OK - you know those letters to Hustler about those anonymous guys who end up having hot, crazy sex with swimsuit models in the middle of the park? This isn't one of those stories. I don't know any swimsuit models, though I do feel a couple of my female friends would look great in a bikini. I also guess you could say what happe...
Anna came home excited today wearing her cute dress that fell mid-thigh and showed off her tiny frame nicely. I asked her what she was so happy about and she smiled saying her boss just approved a four-day conference in Dallas Texas and she would be leaving next month. She spent the next month excited buying new clothes and a carry-on luggage for her busines...
I watch Jenny arch her back as the current surges through her body and freeze the action to take a still shot. The screen splits. On the left side, my hand slowly turns the dial to shut off the juice flowing through the condemned woman, being executed in the electric chair despite her professed innocence of the crime for which she was convicted. As her body...
After having to deal with the frustration of seeing her ex she could feel a bit of frustration welling up inside. It wasn't an overly contentious or otherwise unpleasant meeting, it was just the typical frustration of seeing him and watching him, as he typically does, make everything about everything about him. It's not that he does it because he's narcissis...