Have you ever watched those TV documentaries where they debunk conspiracy theories or paranormal phenomena? Yeah, well Penn & Teller's Bullshit isn't like that. Instead, the comedy duo offer their own unique take on the genre, shamelessly lampooning everything from Creationism to alternative medicine to self-proclaimed psychics like John Edwards. In particul...
Naomi Powers opened the front door to her dingy apartment. She tossed her purse on the table in the hallway and kicked off her shoes allowing them to land where they would. Her neatly ordered world was back to the chaos that it had been that night thirty-one years ago when she was just a baby. An eight month old baby learning to crawl. Through her mother's b...
Over the next few days the Occidental Orchid was becalmed in the Bay of Biscay, the weather being too placid for much progress. Aside from a notable morning's robbing of a passing Portuguese brigantine, these were languid days that stretched out for sultry hours, and the Captain had much time to devote to his captive lady. As she sat, customarily naked, bef...
I sat alone in the chair, waiting for rescue, knowing that my daughter (by my first wife), nicknamed 'Peanut' and Sharona, her lover-partner would drive to my house—not my home, anymore—and, using Peanut's key, get in and rescue me. That drive would take a long time, because they were quite a few miles away. They'd get the cuffs off me easily, because the...
A little light-hearted, lightweight story for all you male subs. Enjoy! (and vote please? Kissy kissy?) One week into the job, and Jackson was already working till ten at night. His predecessor had left the paperwork in a mess. Not very organized for a librarian, Jackson thought, as he stapled a pile of baby pink forms together and dropped them into a tray...
In a world with six billion people in it, million-to-one chances happen thousands of times a day. Thousands of lucky folks strike it rich, or get killed by a falling coconut, or have something equally unlikely happen to them. It ain't all good, but it is all rare. And sometimes some guy finds himself at thirty thousand feet with... well, you'll have to wait...
Today had been a really, really long day. Eleven autopsies, seven of them homicides, three of them children. I wasn't sure how long it would be before I heard if they'd caught all the guilty parties and closed the cases. Hopefully not too long. I know I'm not supposed to care, but it never sits well with me when a case goes cold. I often wonder if there was...
It was one of those things you say in the heat of the moment that, if you're lucky, you get chance to regret. She looked at me with what I'd normally call bedroom eyes, sultry and dark with black lining and thick lashes. Realistically she was the type of woman you took home for one night and spent the rest of your life dreaming about; not the type you took h...
My name is Allen. I have a twin brother named Alvin. We are "mirror" twins. I am right-handed; he is a leftie. I part my hair on the left; he parts his on the right. You men will get this part: I hang left; he hangs right. Yes, we are identical; thus we are "mirror twins." This story has its genesis in our first year of college. I went to a private college i...
The Mommy Gene - June 30 Six years after we both graduated from college I ran into Allison Caroll in the mall. While we were only casually acquainted in college, we found out that we had a lot in common now. Namely we are both obsessed with work and career. That was three years ago and at the time Allison was an accountant with aspirations for a career in c...