Chapter 21 - A problem, a question, and a solution The following day the reception area of the University Memorial Center was reserved for conferences and the visiting Danubian leaders. The university president, the governor, and several local politicians and union leaders awaited the foreign delegation, while Cecilia Sanchez and Cynthia Lee stood waiting w...
He sat as his desk is dark brown hair and hazel eyes. You'd think he was tall, but he wasn't. You'd think that he would be muscular or portly, but he wasn't. If you saw him on the street you would probably ignore him. However, he could mentally manipulate almost every female on the planet. This was an inherited trait from his father going back thousands of y...
As the world loads in you rise up, drawing up your power... before unceremoniously flopping onto the ground. What's the point? The heroes would just waltz through and kill you 20 minutes from now. You didn't even get the satisfaction of killing them over and over again like the bosses did. You were just a creep put here so the heroes could farm XP. The more...
Louise awoke the next morning alone in her small bed, as usual. She thought back on her evening with Jerri while she lay in bed. There had been a certain sexual tension between them. If Jerri hadn't acted so aggressive, she might have been convinced to give it a try. Louise had always pushed back against bullies of all kinds. It was part of her family's uniq...
This story is pure fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. All characters are over the age of 18. This story is fantasy but is the core of an idea mulling around...
On the anniversary marking the thirty-first year of my emergence into this world, I felt the bare skin of another human being for the first time in memory. Amelia always said I'd come to bad ends. How I ended up in her clutch, considering I had no genetic relationship with the others, remains a mystery. The story, as she tells it, is that four months after...
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I was a 22 year old teacher when this experience occurred. My training had just finished and I was about three months into my first appointment. I was a little surprised by the politics of the work place. I had naively assumed that all these bright, intelligent teachers would work together for the betterment of the kids. Hah! But that is another story. Anywa...
(Note: This page is the history, and back story for the world. The story itself starts on the following chapter) According to the historical and medical records Margaret Elizabeth Brackenshaw was the first person officially recorded as being born with both male and female genitalia in a small rural town in Sussex, England on 11-10-1776. The official term for...
(oil painting by Jaisini) In his art, Jaisini insists on overcoming of the dehumanization, the suppression of sensuality. In every historical period there are ideas and problems which are expressed and will not come to pass. Jaisini seeks to identify this idea in the present, excavate it from the past, and invent it in a new way for the future. In the murky...