Chapter I: In which Alan Cox, ordinary man, becomes Don Cocksote, righter of wrongs, lover of love, and world-famous fighter for all manner of romantic justice. * In a town in New England, the name of which I have no desire to recollect, there lived not long ago an older man, nearly sixty, of the kind who have an old scooter in the garage, an elderly cat t...
Sunnyvale, California Earth 1998 Tiffany Winters, ordinary girl in an ordinary town, was about to do the ordinary thing for a girl her age -- slack off and read magazines to kill time until her boyfriend showed up -- when her pager buzzed. The pager was the one thing in her room that didn't quite fit. It was a room of boy band posters, old Easy bake ov...
YUMIMI: A FICTION FOR VICKI AND SCOTT Yusaku had been always an outsider, even before his father died. It was not a role he relished. His mother's family resented his father's relative success in life, and when Yusaku and his mother moved into her family's household following his father's death, it was as if Yusaku's fate were already sealed, at age eleven....
Illustrated by Copperein The rain pelted down in cold sheets as the man leaned against a tree in a vain hope of finding shelter. Under his large coat there was movement and a small voice. "Are we there yet?" Said a young girl's voice. Across a small gap in the trees he watched as a small figure carrying a lantern, emerged from a cave in the mountainside....
I always thought that I was a fairly smart guy. I made it a point to never speak out of turn; unless I knew with absolute certainty that what I had to say was not only correct, but to the point. That all went to hell one day in a hand basket when... Chapter One My name is Harry James and I'm forty-five years old. I've been told by more than a few women in...
Author's note: this story has been re-edited to bring it up to my current standards as part of an effort to make Ebooks. It features improved editing, grammar, punctuation, and also includes rewrites and expanded scenes where necessary. Please see my bio for more information. CHAPTER 1: SIEGE OF JARILO The admirals sat around a circular table in the confer...