Chapter 08 Rewarding the Raiders The Taourirt Kasbah in the desert oasis of Ouarzazate was abuzz with rumors. All in the fortress knew that the nomadic Berber tribes around the oasis had refused the authority of Governor Glaoui. In the morning the garrison's eight soldiers had loaded their ancient muskets and ridden off. The palace servants and junior offi...
CHAPTER 7 -- WELL TRAINED Bagoas the eunuch strolled across the courtyard of the Taourirt Kasbah. He was a person of power in this place, being Overseer of the Governor's Harem. With him was his body servant and chosen protege, Hamid, an eighteen year old eunuch. Governor Glaoui had called Bagoas to his office this afternoon. They entered and the elderly se...
Bashasha lowered her head quietly and waited for the great Sheik to speak. She had been summoned before him and prayed to Allah that neither she, her girls nor anyone under her command had angered him. “Praise be to Allah, great Sheik. I am yours to command.” She spoke, head lowered waiting for the young man’s reply. Mohammed watched the older woman in a c...
"Certainly you won't mind, Dear Wood Consort, if I play with your maid for some moments?" Empress Consort Miseo was in a playful mood this late morning. Wen couldn't help but smile. "I'll miss her once you take her away," Wen said from her seat in the reception room, "but I can rest well knowing she'll be cared for." She gestured towards Yuwei. Faintly s...
Katia meandered back through her generously sized town. It wasn't small but half the population was spread out over hundreds of acres running large farms and ranches. Her family, for instance, lived just on the outskirts of town and by that it was really five subpars (about ten miles). She had always imagined what life would be like outside of Kistoog, run...
1. Egypt, Ages Past When the Pharaoh's ruled Egypt, Ana Neba Keru was born and raised as the virgin daughter, schooled to be a priestess of Bast. She couldn't really remember the first time she had felt the stirrings between her legs and the excitement of self-fulfillment, but at the age of thirteen she began the practice of leaning naked in her palace wind...
'Half the Man' and its associated chapters is a copyrighted production of Mostera1 Postscriptor edited this chapter. ***** Chapter 3 "Not that godforsaken buzzing again," he groaned and rubbed his throbbing head. "That's what I get for taking an extra sleeping pill at 1:00 A.M. in the morning. Oh well." Dylan mumbled a few more irritated words and then...
Chapter 2: The Boat Michelle loved my boat and riding around the lake. I think it gave her a tremendous sense of freedom or something. She seemed to lose all her inhibitions. I loved it. I took her to dinner one night at a really nice restaurant on the lake. We took a nice easy ride down to the restaurant at dusk by boat, docked and had a great dinner and...
How I hated him, I hated him enough to even damn myself. From my birth he had always been there and had taken from me my pleasures. Stolen my fortune. As I grew he took from me those women who I had taken an interest in. What is more I was considered a friend to this vile, bullying man. Then one day I determined upon my revenge. I read long and hard till I...
To the Senate and People of Rome from Q. Cassius Sextus, Senior Tribune, Legio XIV, Hale! I am commanded by Didius Claudius Meritus, Governor of Phrygia to offer the following report into the causes of the late unpleasantness in the city of Atarbraxis, since renamed Pentium. I know you will be all familiar with the facts regarding the results of the rioting...