You wake up in your room, having a pleasant dream last night. Looking around your room, you see a silver platter by your bedside with a lid over it. You sit up and leaned over carefully to grab the platter, removing the lid. Your favorite breakfast! How wonderful! You eat your breakfast, thinking about how both your parents went away to do business, a whole...
Author's Note: I first published Might Have Been here almost two years ago. While it was one of the top-ranked stories on the site at the time, I didn't feel it was what it should be. I had published each chapter as I completed it, preventing me from setting up themes and conflicts when they occurred to me while writing later chapters. I therefore pulled it...
Manu and I would like to thank all the authors who submitted during the month, and all the other months for that matter! We've tallied the reader's votes, and are happy to announce the winners of May's Reader's Choice Awards. First Place ($150 Cash Prize Winner):'Twas The Night Before... Ch. 02 by BrokenSpokesSecond Place ($100 Cash Prize Winner):Succubus A...
"Only those willing to walk through the dark night will be able to see the beauty of the moon and the brilliance of the stars." -Socrates Villegas There are things that go bump in the night. Vampires, bloodsucking beings of the dark. Werewolves, bestial beings of the moonlight. They have lived alongside humans throughout history. Well known during...
I am to have dinner with a mature woman that I've met on-line. Her photos have shown her to be a few years older than myself—attractive, with blonde hair and a buxom build. I have always been interested in the allure of older mature women, so I am very excited for our meeting. I arrive early, take up a position at the bar, order a scots whisky, and wait for...
The number one (two and three) rule of being a writer is...don't respond to criticism. But every now and then someone or something comes along that makes that virtually impossible. For me, it is never the scathing, barely camouflaged vitriol of other authors or wanna-be's. It is the thoughtful and well worded (and spell checked) ones that get my mental gears...
Helen had to be quick at finding excuses. It was something she had always been good at and her explanation for the theft of her bag and why she had taken to her bed early that evening matched the questions that Jack wanted to know. The theft was a quick snatch on her way to university that left her feeling depressed, and going home to bed was her way of forg...
The day was February fourteenth twenty ten. Finding a partner not easy in the futuristic dome of Mars. Romance and Valentine's had ceased to exist on the planet for many. No more were the cards or chocolates or even flowers to brighten anyone's romantic hearts. Romance had cease to exist as you could have sex in any form but the natural way. The years had n...
I would like to enter into a bit of a dialogue with the readers of this story series. This is for those of you who took the time to enter a comment, positive or negative, as well as those of you who only look at (but not write) comments. (me 98% of the time) First off, thank you for sharing what your thoughts. This is a story, like every other story in this...
It had been several months since the creatures from the other world had started migrating here. There had been some issues at first, and some others were still resolving. But they brought with them business, jobs and labour, the other world had not progressed in the last 500 years anywhere near as much as our and so they weren’t really a threat to the workin...