ONE The city of two million people sleeps and as the clock sweeps its 24-hour cycle (two 12-hour cycles in many instances) citizens die, give birth, are abused, wed, laugh, cry, pay homage and divorce. So, for some life sucks. As the dawn approached, Linda checked the clock, smiled the smile of a dreamer, and slipped back to sleep without reaching into th...
Laurie Catherine Fallon Day 50th: May 29, 1992 In my dream I held pieces of my skull in the crease of my temporal lobes. I imagined the place where the axe cut the stones or the guillotine set up to make the ritual more predictable. It was as if I lived in the blood of my menstrual cunt. I fumbled square balls transformed into testicles and I ran up the...
Chapter 1 Rachel Clark walked out of her last job with a smile on her face. She was so glad she didn't have to work for a man who didn't care anything about her. That was the fifth job she had in the last few weeks and she needed to find another one and quick. She had a six year old daughter at home that needed a better life. She walked the dark streets o...
There was dead silence as the announcement came over the intercom. "This is your Captain speaking. The official remembrance of Earth Day begins now. The next twelve hours should be spent in reflection of what has been lost." We had all been waiting for it. Every year we gathered in small groups throughout the ship to listen, to mourn. If you chose, you co...
From the misty recesses of Maria's mind, the need slowly crept into her conscience. In moments of quiet, the growing desire soon occupied more and more of her thoughts. Memories of his face, his scent, and his heat, now intruded so strongly that they were almost tangible. Her dry mouth and pounding heart, physically underscored the tingle of lust that was b...
What little time I had allowed myself for sleep after my bout with the chief, was an exercise in futility. No matter how I positioned myself in the bed, sooner or later, I began to climax. The rubbing of the bed clothes was enough to excite my body to a point where it began responding. Finally, a short while after day-break, I surrendered to the inevitable....
"Betsy got out?" Sophia Ridge takes the metal frame she and Jack was hauling out from his hands and nudges him aside. He squinted at her thinking to himself that she could have carried that out by herself all along. The group joined Greta back on the desert floor. Elle had finally caught up out of curiosity. Tossing the metal sheet ten feet away Sophia sp...
The song the jukebox was playing was familiar to Castiel; Dean had played it many times in the Impala since Castiel had started paying attention. Sometimes the angel had just been listening from afar, tuned in to Dean, checking in on the young human, taking a break from battle to hear what thoughts and fears and oddly beautiful "classic rock" might be passin...
Lia's body ached, every sinewy muscle protesting how long it had been since she'd found sustenance. It drove her to take risks she normally wouldn't take, get careless. That fear is what haunted her thoughts as she strolled through the club. Lights flashed and the bass thumped in her ears, but she ignored it all. It was the rush of warm blood in these veins...
Collin's trip to Las Vegas back in 1997 was courtesy of Mira MiLady's Oven Roasted Chicken. One of his guilty pleasures in life was reading Inventor Today magazine, a publication that could almost be considered trash pulp for the MENSA crowd. It's glossy pages were plastered with badly pixilated images of new invention patents juxtaposed to articles on how t...