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Gifts of the Future Ch. 13

by surober1 on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas

After the first of the year in 1989, Jada Seldon had surgery to restore her ability to conceive. Lily Richards assisted at the request of her friend and they did the best they could but, once they cut her open, they knew they weren't going to be able to offer Jada much hope. The Saudi doctors had removed more tissue than was necessary... Lily and the other...

Haitian Immigrant Looks at Canada

by Samuelx on Sep 17, 2017
Non-Erotic

The sun rose over Ontario, Canada, and I rose with it. I've been living in this place for several years now and even though my passport now says permanent resident of Canada instead of dubious terms like refugee claimant and all that crap, this place still doesn't feel like home. Maybe it's because of the cold, hateful stares I get from random people as I wa...

African Prince Comes To Boston

by Samuelx on Sep 14, 2017
Interracial Love

Looking at the young blonde woman lying in bed next to him, Constantine Al-Sharif was deep in thought. Gently, he kissed her forehead. Sighing, he tried not to think about the past and failed miserably. Born and partly raised in the City of Bousse in the nation of Burkina Faso, Constantine had felt odd his entire life. The son of Jacob Al-Sharif, a Lebanese...

From Qatar With Love

by Samuelx on Sep 16, 2017
Interracial Love

Unless you test yourself, you will never find out what you're capable of. My name is Abraham Tadesse and I was born and raised in the City of Nazret, Ethiopia. Like a lot of my fellow countrymen, I was driven by abject poverty to seek a better life elsewhere. That's how I ended up as a migrant worker ( in the construction industry ) in Qatar. To any African,...

John Henry, Technology, The Chinese and Jobs

by Occamspiledriver on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays

There are many statements made, particularly in the current political climate, that are often accepted as true. One of the most oft repeated is that"we [as a country] don't make things anymore." Another is that we have lost all our manufacturing jobs to outsourcing. As to the first claim that "we don't make anything anymore" that is, to put it politely, a l...

Pacific Capital

by Paniolo Boy on Oct 6, 2020
Novels and Novellas

This next interview would be the seventh candidate that I had to meet with today. And I was scheduled to meet with two additional applicants after this. And my HR director was being extremely inquisitive about how I selected the final list of candidates to interview amongst the number of otherwise qualified applicants who had applied to be my personal assist...

A Superior Race

by Samuelx on Sep 14, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

There were once a lot of dumb people in this world. I'm amazed by this more and more every day that goes by. In all of nature, nothing that exists acts against its own best interests. Animals and plants do all that they can to ensure their own survival. All of these life forms follow the same basic plan. Self-improvement, reproduction and the furtherance of...

From Somalia With Love

by Samuelx on Sep 2, 2017
Erotic Couplings

My name is Ayaan Farooq-Morrison and I'm a Somali woman living in the City of Houston, Texas, with my biracial husband Theodore Morrison. He's the one who introduced me to the joys of forbidden sex, along with many things which Somali culture and the Islamic faith consider haram. I am married to a man who follows a religion other than Islam. My husband is Ch...

Being Me: It's My Life

by Samuelx on Sep 16, 2017
Non-Erotic

Lying on his back on the soft grass in the quad outside the Mac Odrum Library, he smiled and looked at the sun. all around him, his fellow Carleton University students were sitting, playing and otherwise enjoying the unseasonably warm weather. A heat wave gripped the Capital region of Canada this late in March 2012, and Stephen Lafontant was absolutely lovin...

Gifts of the Future Ch. 20

by surober1 on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas

The scientists of Earth Friendly Futures were working as fast as they could to complete tests on the soil and water samples they'd gathered from around the U.S. during 2004 and 2005. Then they started on samples that were being sent to them from other environmentalists around the world through the IOPF. Most of the next few years would be spent doing nothin...