In April 2004 my husband announced that his 25 year old secretary was 6 months pregnant and he was leaving me and our two daughters to be with her. Apparently I'd become boring and had put on weight – no longer the slim nymphomaniac that he had married 21 years previously. To say that I was devastated would be somewhat of an understatement. I thought that I'...
Amber ran back up the stairs with a handful of ice cubes wrapped in paper towels, told me to hold it against my lip, then hurried back down the stairs, saying she had a midnight snack cooking on the stove. When she came back five minutes later she had a plate of grilled cheese sandwiches in one hand and two glasses of a red table wine in the other. She sat o...
Author's note: I may have set a new record for the longest delay between installments. My apologies. I'd like to think I can pick up the pace going forward. Since this chapter is a direct continuation of previous chapters, I would suggest starting from the beginning, or at the very least, Chapter 4. As always, I respectfully request your constructive feedbac...
I once watched the opening sequence of a film showing an athlete running through woodland. The camera must have followed his progress for over two minutes until a sniper waiting in ambush brought him down with a single shot to the head. That footage rather haunted me, causing me to wonder how many people through time, if granted premonition of what lay ahead...
Joan and Brock had missed Brandi's Saturday night exhibition in the Performance Chamber. They planned to watch it together on-line at home using Retreat TV, a private communications network the club offered members with entertainment rooms and big-screen TVs capable of projecting 3-D and SurroundSound. The Hockadays absence was not intentional, but an off-th...
Linda and I had been married for 4 years and this is the very first chance we have had to get away on our yacht for a long holiday. We have been very much in love ever since we met and we didn't have a very long engagement and were soon married. My name is Brenton and I am 36 years old. I am in very good physical condition and I work out regularly in my own...
{15 minutes into the future... } Somewhere between the homonculous of alchemy, and the banned practice of human cloning, lies the Klein Bottle. I'm not sure of the wisdom in explaining how the process works, or how I came to inherit this knowledge, but for now I will only admit it's existence. It was not something I was eager to make use of though, for reas...
Thank you to my two favorite editors, LadyCibelle and Techsan, for making my story a much better read. * Chapter 1 There are many men out there; they are all sizes and shapes, tall, short, heavy, trim. Some have a full head of hair while others are nearly bald. Women have a tendency to look at the young, good-looking ones with a body with six-pack abs and...
When Professor Alan Gibson finally retired as head of the School of Philosophy – years after some members of the staff thought he should have retired – it was clear who was going to replace him. The dead hand of the past still lay heavy on the faculty, and the dead hand said that although in theory it was the senior members of staff who chose those who woul...
James clicked the Sign On, settling back in his black leather chair, staring at the monitor on his iMac as the internal noise and sound of the telephone connecting to the Internet played through his speakers, James all the while thinking about who he was to be this evening. He had been using the Internet for nearly 6 years now, and had a pretty good understa...