THURSDAY EVENING DINNER I harangued my wife, Amy, "I've gotta get that promotion to vice president. With the VP bonuses we would move from the ranks of the rich to the truly wealthy. All kind of corporate perks come with a VP position in our company." We were enjoying a lovely dinner of Dover Sole and an expensive bottle of French White Burgundy at our favo...
Melanie sighed as the light came on and the chime sounded. She'd signed on for this duty. She'd even volunteered. But it did get tedious. Standing up, sliding a bookmark into her novel, Melanie waited for the chamber to open. A month ago, she'd been a lieutenant in the Black Navy, defending the planet against off world invaders. The war had been over for fi...
P was growing very weary of being stuck in her room. While this might be the most memorable trip of her life, she was hardly having the time of her life. She had finally come to accept that she was, quite literally, trapped inside Mr. J's house. She was completely at his mercy and this was growing old very quickly. When Mr. J next entered her room, she tried...
"Boss we got wolves that are not ours coming up the block, and two in the line that we are sure are scouts." Raven leapt to his feet and bounded to the door he paused, looking back at Bianca. She scrambled to the bed and he waited to open the door till she had gotten into the bed and pulled the sheet over her. They had all seen her nude on stage but this w...
Blake Oates couldn't believe what he was looking at through his binoculars: a beautiful, and completely naked, young brunette displaying herself out in a field a clearing in the forest he was hiding in. Presumably, she thought she was safe, because no one else seemed to be anywhere in the area; certainly, he was far away enough-about one hundred yards away...
Into the Foreverdark The Gathering A man sits outside a store with a stroller rocking it back and forth; inside the stroller sleeps a 6-month-old baby. This tall man stands and looks into the stroller to see if his son is still a sleep. An unusual little girl walks out of the store her snow-white hair with silver highlights and obsidian skin gets many look...
Veronique Dubois hung on every word of Lucas Harvey's stories. The 25-year reporter was still finding it hard to believe she had snagged such a coup, landing an exclusive interview with the successful author 5 minutes of meeting him during his latest book tour. Veronique believed that there were two things that had tipped the scales in her factor. One might...
Thank you to everyone who is still reading. I apologize for all of the short chapters, but I actually had chapters one through five all turned in to the site before the first chapter was released, so I haven't had any opportunity to address your comments until now. Chapters will likely come slower now, because they are longer, because I have an editor, an...
1: Neu Mitteleuropa July 2002. I saw her for the first time in the hotel lobby where we were registering for the conference -- a heavy-set, early middle-aged woman, her brown hair short and tightly-permed, wearing a blue trouser suit. The jacket was military-style with two rows of brass buttons on its front, giving her the look of a Civil War-era Union of...
Uzara breathed deeply to still herself, calm her racing heart and take control of her anxiety. She closed her eyes to stop looking at the massive gilded doors of her mother's domain she had passed through three years ago upon maturing into a dedicated servant and worshipper of the demonic Patriarchdom. In her mind's eye she remembered all of the things she...