Strictly speaking, it was too cold outside for window shopping. And, frankly, if we were shopping for something different, I would have protested and dragged my wife back to the hotel. But, since we were in the red-light district in Amsterdam, I was okay with it. I had seen streetwalkers in various cities in America but the situation in Amsterdam is surreal...
Some of the native measurements in this story are not absolute. "Weighted three stones" or "walked five paces" would be good examples. Some units, distances, and measurements of time have been annotated using the metric system for your own enjoyment. I apologise in advance if this ruins the immersion for some readers. Tribal names are direct translations f...
Chapter 1 Charlie was approaching 43. His mid-life crisis was looming. His marriage was virtually over; the divorce court was surely just around the corner. Where had the last 20 years gone? Out of university at 22, the world at his fingertips, women to be seduced and loved and jobs and careers to be attacked with the energy that only a 'know it all' 22...
Hi everyone! I am very happy with the acceptance of this story. I am submitting this the same day I see the first 3 chapters up on Lit so we just wait for them to put the next ones up. So happy they aren't taking more than two days or so! Thanks for the comments about the grammar, I am really trying hard to get better on it. You will see me evolving on t...
A Somewhat Less Than Divine Comedy Driftwood: A Prelude to the Evening 'Let me to take you down -- 'Cause I'm going to strawberry fields' Lennon/McCartney Rogues Bay, Tortola, BVI Today There were a few low clouds scudding over the far horizon, yet all-in-all the day's weather was looking good -- better than good, really, especially for the time of...
This story contains no under aged sex whatsoever. The two protagonists meet when she is under aged but do not have any sort of sexual relationship until she is twenty-eight. * He had first met his niece when he was eighteen and she was six. She was the daughter of his half brother; she was a bubbly, active young child with an abundance of energy. He had ne...
'We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.' -Ovid He was 32. I was in college. There were six or seven of us who stayed back that day; I didn't count the number exactly. The room was shoved away in a remote part of the school where you only went for class, yet he brightened it, made people want to come. His charisma and q...
I woke the next morning a bit confused and disoriented. It took a few moments lying in bed with my eyes closed before I was able to piece together exactly what had happened in the past twenty-four hours. Once I had it all straight in my mind, I was still unsure what to think. I was somewhat horrified to realize what I had done, yet, I felt a strange pride ab...
The sullen stranger opened his brown eyes to the warm dawn and marked the start of his fifth day in a mobile cage. He brushed a lock of his shaggy brown hair out of his eyes and looked around. It was bad enough that he woke up on a bed of hay that reeked of animal droppings, but the scent was made worse by the rain that fell and blew through the bars of thei...
Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, 10th April, 1865 General Order No. 9 After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the las...