Author's Notes: All characters are at least 18 years old, except where stated otherwise. Jake, Amy and their schoolmates are preparing to take their A level exams in late May and early June, before they go on to university in September or October. In this chapter, Jake also mentions GCSEs, which are exams taken by 16-year-olds in England. Please note that...
Prologue Hi there. My name (of course, changed for the obvious reason that I am not suicidal) is Jones. I am a black male, I work as a janitor at this all white school. I live in a big city nearby, and have held my job in this rich white satellite town for about 6 months. Basically, since the Man let me out on parole. My life is a typical tale of the youn...
### The End? It had been a long day, once again my team and I had worked late into the night. Crunch time is like that and I, as the lead programmer on the game needed to be there through all of it. Often, like tonight, I'd be the last one to leave the office. After I'd set the security system, I exited the office and then the building, headed across the pa...
Sometimes your past catches up with you. Sometimes it it bad. This time it's good. I had been working at my job of 10 years building heavy equipment. We had been putting in over 80 hours a week, for the past 6 months. With only Sundays off my time was limited. But our 2 week shutdown was coming up next week. And that meant vacation. 2 weeks to decompress. I...
I had met my Lenna, my wife of nearly fifteen years, years ago at school the following Monday after I had thrown a party at my parent's farm for a bunch of my buds because they were away. I had got a friend of my parents who worked for us to get me a couple of bottles of sour mash. My cousin Terry had gotten pissed eyed drunk, which for him at that age did...
Lawrence's deep-set frown was illuminated harshly by the cold blue light of his computer monitor. He didn't like what he was seeing on his monitor. Didn't like it one bit. At nineteen, he would have watched it eagerly. At fifty, he knew he should turn it off, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. And the more he watched, the angrier he became. On the othe...
*Author's Note: To set the stage for this story, let me begin by saying I'm a skeptic myself. I find dogmatism of any kind difficult to deal with. When I hear anyone tell me certain thing are 'settled' it rankles me because very few things are ever settled, and that is especially true in the area of science. Were that so, Einstein wouldn't have pursued rel...
Cin's Story Cin was born in the living room of a tenant farmhouse in a small mid-western community. Being born at home was fairly common back in mid 1930's. It was more common if you lived in a small community, and even more common if your home was some distance away from a major city hospital. Her father farmed. Her early years were spent on that farm and...
Copyright LATL, 2019. No part shall be reproduced or re-posted on any other website. Life after the Lottery, CH. 64 A few things come together Tuesday morning Dawn and I were up at 4:00 getting ready to go to the airport. When we got out of the shower about 4:30, Samantha came into the bedroom ready to leave for the morning surgery with Dr. John. "Be car...
The Web. You almost can't believe it, the dark spires rending the green sky above, the putrid scent of potions brewing constant within the city. This is it, the place where you can become truly powerful, no longer powerless against Fate's machinations. The golden mistress of destiny, weaving her plans and desires in the Tower of Time. You refuse to be anothe...