Intrepido - 217 P.R. Paolo Mauritz carefully examined the calendar. Although it was very nearly the 218th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, no celebrations were being prepared on the Space Ship Intrepido. Nor were they on the other interplanetary battleships in the space fleet speeding onwards in diminished numbers towards the Anomaly. This was one ye...
Six o'clock consistently brought in an after-work crowd that was dying for a chance to let off some steam from the day with an ice cold beer, good company and something just as good to eat. Harman's, the well-known place among office workers, was usually crowded but always had room for some more patrons. It was also no secret that some of the men that freque...
I'm sitting there at work, like usual, just trying to get through the day, when an unexpected email pops up on my computer. The subject line reads "Hey sweetie." I'm about to delete it, thinking that it's another piece of smut email, but on a closer look it doesn't look like junk mail. It's an actual person's note. I open it and it reads: "Hey boy, we know...
“I have your lab test back and everything seems normal. But...” Doctor Williams said giving that look while sitting behind his desk. You know the look, it’s the one every doctor gives a patient when they want to get their point across. Arms folded on the table, eyeglasses slipped low on their nose, giving that look of parent to child, as scores of sheepskin...
Allison stood over a single cross which had been placed at the head of two large piles of dirt and stone. She wore a dress of light black and white cloth, her tears drier in her hazel eyes as they had been emptied of all emotion. She remained in a silent void of nothingness. They had been her only living relatives in this horrible world, this life which had...
A month passed since the torture. As promised, Musashi had language books delivered for Nik to study. Revenge consumed each waking thought. If studying to be a natural at the Japanese language was a road to vengeance, he'd pour heart and soul into it. Each day he'd practice words and phrases with the nurses that'd bring food and check on his condition. Othe...
It wasn't even several minutes before he felt her naked body stir against him. He gently pulled her closer, breathing in the sweet smell of her hair as it lay clinging to her breast. He couldn't resist and brushed his thumb across her nipple watching it harden while he gently pushed her hair away, reviling more, more for him to touch, kiss, lick...Damn, he s...
Harry Parker stood on the sand, his wife Susan by his side both were naked. After six years back together they were comfortable with each other, both had lost a little weight and both glowed with a healthy tan. At the waters edge two laughing toddlers played in the lazy surf, their oiled and bronzed bodies dipping in and out of the waves. Just behind them hi...
She was strong when she needed to be: my initial impressions of Katherine was that she was brutishly powerful and yet at times as gentle as a butterfly. She was clever too: sharper than an axe with a wit that could cut through pathetic ripostes like a tropical storm would decimated sandcastles. She lived with my aunt because she worked on the farm; I lived...
Lisa awakes to the wet warmth of urine splashing against her hand. "What the fuck?" she shouts at the shadowed upper branches of the tree she's lying under as she rolls out of the way. "Sorry," comes Bubba's apologetic reply, "I'm not used to travelling with other people." A chuckle proceeds Steve as he re-enters the clearing whence he was meditating and...