I thank my LadyCibelle and Techsan for their patience, proof reading, editing skills and of course encouragement. I'd also like to add that we don't always see eye to eye, we do have some disagreements sometimes - well quite often really, - I can be an obstinate old bugger when I want to be. Anyway I take full responsibility for the content and any cock-ups...
I had been looking forward to the concert for almost six months. I had set my alarm and spent over an hour online waiting for the tickets to go on sale and finally, finally, I had them. Two tickets to the standing room only show of my favorite band. I had never been so excited in my life. They had been my favorite band for years, since I was just a purpl...
ONE "Just a simple stake out, you said! Oh, this should be wrapped up in five minutes, you said! Why did you have to jinx it?!" Shockwave glared at his teammates. All around them, a swarm of robots continued to pour from every nook and cranny of the warehouse, where what was supposed to be a simple drug sale bust had evolved into a superhero versus robot cl...
BECOMING PEOPLE November 22nd, 2057 twenty years ago The heavy ceramic vase slammed with shattering force into her forehead, propelled by a rage she was only privy to second-hand. Damage-control alarms klaxoned within the White-haired Doll's Kernel, where her every application and algorithm was scheduled for execution. There had been more leading up to t...
God gave you a penis and a brain and only enough blood to run one at a time. ~ Robin Williams ***** It was late, I'd left the office well after dinner and found myself pretty hungry on the drive home. Rather than pacify my hunger with something from the drive-thru, quick and detrimental to my health, I figured I'd swing by that upscale grocery store that h...
(Author's note: The idea for this series grew out of a writing challenge I posted on the Author's Hangout, here on Lit. It began as a basic premise of being a government agent who travels back in time to fix changes made by an unknown group called the 'Rectifiers,' and blossomed from there. The TMA – Temporal Management Agency – is a multi-natio...
Alexa was introduced in my story "Couldn't have done it without Alexa." Her husband's corporate rise was aided greatly by her machinations and willingness to go the extra mile. The story was told from his point of view and left much to the imagination. But since Alexa was the one experiencing what was going on, whether her husband was able to witness it or n...
"So you see," Roy explained two days later to the elderly gentleman sitting across from him, "By the time I finished school, the army was pretty much the only option. My mother had died two years before of one of those many weird diseases that were becoming more and more common by then, and dad never quite recovered. He would just sit and stare at the wall a...
John sat in his apartment, his laptop on his lap. The sunrise just beginning, he thought today is a new day. He opened Craigslist and scanned the personals, not expecting to find anything and then there it was. He sat quietly staring at the screen, for the first time in a long time indecision weighed on him. "W4M - Couple looking for a Top to teach my wife h...
Author's Note: Please read Parts 1 & 2 before reading this final part to the story about Jack and Carla. I invite comments and ratings for my stories; please feel welcome to do both. Thanks for reading this story! mntnman64 * Two days after their last scene in the "dungeon" , Jack was at work trying to fine- tune some schematic problems on the new RC-9388...