Five Years Ago "Listen very carefully to me son, women are only meant for two things to make a man's life easier, and to give him sons," Dae-Jung's father told him in English while he looked from his office window with his hands clasped behind his back. "Your mother was good for such things. She never bothered me or even spoke out of place if she did she w...
Fear took over Alex. "What do you want me to do? Just press the wires together and see what happens? I could die." "My patience wears thin, earthling. Make a stream of electricity to bond the two cords. "I don't know how!" he frantically said. Shyra placed her hand over her mouth; her body language suggested she was concerned with his lack of kinetic co...
Part 1: There is only one truth about time in prison. Interrogation, and waiting The walls of my cell are comprised of a total of 22 stones. No one stone is the same height or width. The Tapalanie prison is inefficiently built, painfully built. Who would be able to live with themselves for erecting a prison? Slaves - only a slave would dig their own grave....
I wanted to experiment with writing an effective one page story that's nonlinear. Well, I failed on the brevity, and I guess you'll let me know how the nonlinear writing went over. This is a very short story and fairly dark. I hope you'll find that it was worth your time. Thanks for reading. * * * * * ELEVEN MONTHS AGO Johnathan pulled into the driveway...
Ian was tired, bone-tired, after a long day's work in the fields. A husky youth of 18 summers, his broad shoulders and muscular arms testified too many long hours under the sun keeping his grandfather's farm productive. His hair was bright red, his eyes blue, his limbs long, and his tanned skin almost hid his freckles completely. The laborers left in the twi...
Dear Readers, Finally! Something new! ...er Kinda... Ok, it's not entirely new. I will tell you, though, that all the chapters leading up to this one have been revamped. This chapter contains parts that were previously in Chapter 5. Also, each chapter holds anywhere from a little to a Lot of new content. I would encourage each and every one of you to re-...
The man stood naked among the low trees that covered the rolling hills around him. He wore only a tan and white buckskin thrown loosely about his broad shoulders. His gray-green eyes followed the dozen or so mustangs that raced and played in the soft glow of the early morning sun. His heart beat in time with theirs. "Rex, my son," said the gravelly voice be...
© copyright, Raymond Descheneaux, 2019 In order to avoid inbreeding, in addition to producing babies of pure familial blood, the family needed regularly to adopt persons from outside of the royal bloodline. Fortunately, from time to time, refugee women of good birth appeared on our frontier, often with children in tow. In many cases, their kingdoms had been...
"Are you sure you want to go up there?" asked the driver. Fear and superstitious dread colored his words. Anne ignored him. She watched fat raindrops splatter the windshield. The driver had asked the same question three times since picking her up at the station. She knew the fear in his voice was for his own safety not hers. The villagers feared Castle Fran...
This story is part of the 'Welcome to the New World' event organized by QHML1. I'm grateful for the invitation to participate. The participating authors are supposed to write stories where there is a power disparity between a man and a woman in a relationship, with the woman being seduced by power. No one said that the relationship had to be romantic, so h...