It would be over soon, Brent realized. After the wheel had come up on Red, when he'd bet on Black... oohhh! Again! He was losing chips hand over fist! There went his stimulus rebate check, and his mortgage payment...ouch! "I can turn it around..." he hissed, gripping the rim of the table expectantly, amidst the glitz and glitter of the casino floor. And th...
It is 100,000 years since man first left Earth to settle the stars. In that time, he has filled several galaxies. Finding no other sentient life, man filled the gap himself. Over the millenia, through genetic engineering, specialized breeding, and brute mutation, man has transformed into a variety of forms, some so bizzare as to barely count as human. At the...
Chapter 08 Rewarding the Raiders The Taourirt Kasbah in the desert oasis of Ouarzazate was abuzz with rumors. All in the fortress knew that the nomadic Berber tribes around the oasis had refused the authority of Governor Glaoui. In the morning the garrison's eight soldiers had loaded their ancient muskets and ridden off. The palace servants and junior offi...
This is an introduction to characters and surrondings--no sex. Stay tuned for that in the next chapters. The first sun rose slowly, glowing fiercely red against the ghostly white sky. The second sun followed it quickly, a pale yellow orb stopping halfway between the horizon and the first sun. The combined light shone gently on the green and blue landscape...
Prologue For the next many hours, Zack didn't have to dream of Leila the belly dancer lying naked beneath his conquering embrace, her supple body dancing them into a horizontal sweaty frazzle. He lived it... and thrice again before dawn. Woken repeatedly by Leila's whimpered pleas, Zack deferred to her specialized dexterity. He allowed Leila to warp his nak...
"So, this is quite the big, happy family, I see," the cruise director, a sultry Asian woman in what looked to be her early forties, smiled as she saw us walk onto the cruise ship. "I'll say," Rachel laughed, winking at our hostess in a surprisingly risqué manner ... I assumed that it was only playful, of course. I didn't really get a good look at our direc...
"There are three to review today, Your Grace," Raquel said. The King stopped in his tracks in the corridor. "Three?" he questioned, "I believe that's a record." He continued onward in the grey stone hall that connected his private chambers to a back staircase reserved for himself and other members of the royal family. "Yes, Your Grace," Raquel said, "The c...
"I really like you," she said. We were sitting near the river at a secluded spot where people seldom came. We felt comfortable there and time passed quickly in each other's company. "I mean I really, really like you. You treat me so much better than Oslo ever does. You take time to listen to me and you're gentler. He's such a brute you know; not just with...
Mavika (The name on her passport was Debbie but she tried to forget it until her return to Singapore) was wearing Indian clothes for the second day in a row. She had met the Princess Kira in the morning and prince Kyrhan's wife had complimented her for the elegance with which she was wearing her saree. It was far from simple for an England born white woman s...
In part 1 and 2 of this story we come to know Sheikh Fouad who rules a traditional 1001 nights meet Silicon Valley Emirate between the sea and the desert. He discovers a bombplot against his children and those of other dignitaries. The bomb is handed to the assassin by a Western woman who teaches at the local university and is known for her fierce equal righ...