As agreed, we met at a small open-air coffeeshop in the more relaxed area of downtown. It was the sort of commercial neighborhood that was designed to make patrons look professional but hip. I'm sure that if I were looking I'd see a Starbucks or a Bruegger's somewhere nearby. I found her seated at a corner table under a large, and potentially real, potted fi...
This is one of several extra "mini stories" that are supplements to the Beach House series. Some of these will be elements of the story that I had in my head as I was writing a particular chapter, but which were left out because I couldn't fit them in or they didn't lend themselves to the first-person narration of the story. Others will be side stories that...
Chrissy and Alex had been writing back and forth over E-mail for some weeks. Teasing and flirting. Getting each other interested and hot. They both lived in the same city but hadn't met yet, preferring to keep it safe and online, however they were both beginning to feel like there might be some interesting reasons to get together in person. In his last e-mai...
(I would like to stress that I respect feminism as an ideology. I am not a feminist myself, I'm happy with how we stand in America, but that doesn't mean I hate feminism. I hate RADICAL feminism. There's a big difference. Enjoy.) "Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies!" Andrea screamed. Allen was gett...
***Part 1 of a story for this Halloween, I hope that the readers enjoy this as much as I have taken my time and let my imagination run writing it TRIAX*** * It was October 22nd and I have received a procurement that is of interest, I read the private email carefully as I contemplate how to go about in this matter. Mr. Marcus Dangal, I wanted to hire you...
An odd, short term romance many years ago in post-war China. Quite an adventure for a young man. * Right after World War Two, the Pacific was awash with surplus of every description. Boats, ships, aircraft and weapons were everywhere. It was mind boggling in the enormity. What an opportunity for enterprising young men. I'm Chick, a nickname because my las...
It's a strange world I walk in, strange of my own choosing, I know. So many times it seems to come full circle, only to start back at the beginning again anew. I've never been what society would consider "normal." My first memory is of the age of two, stabbing myself with a pencil just to see what would happen. I find it curious how our earliest memories hel...
My name is Jean. It was "Eugene" until I decided I wanted to be a female. I am 25 years old, and the woman inside my male body has struggled for years to come out. It started in grade school. On dress-up day, I wanted to wear girl's clothes...I wanted to be a fairy princess. My mother made me a costume, a long satiny dress with a tiara and magic wand. She d...
Chapter 01 - The Job Silverton was like any other mining town on the West Coast, where all the youth of the town did was grow up and either work in the mine or leave as fast as they could. I was just like all of them who harboured that same dream and couldn't wait to escape when or if the opportunity ever came. There wasn't a day that went by when I didn't...
Constantine was a new recruit in the Serb army and excited by the new opportunity in front of him, his young future looking very bright. Only 19 years old and fresh out of basic training he was largely ignorant of the atrocities his countrymen had been responsible for in the past, growing up in a very patriotic and jingoistic household. His father had been i...