Misunderstanding -- Casiama crouched low with her bow drawn, a hundred yards from the pair of conversing humans on the beach. A small rowboat had come ashore, not two-hundred yards from her, and dropped these two off before returning to the larger craft. The unmarked ship - or perhaps an uncommisioned Imperial vessel - hadn't yet set sail, making Casiama...
I started teaching at the community college a month or so before the end of the winter semester to take the place of a teacher who had emergency surgery, and was recovering slowly. It was a concert choir class, and while my singing abilities are quite limited, I know good music when I hear it. On a couple of unusual occasions, I have stood in front of the ch...
Based on a true story. I admired Cathy as the porn played on the television. She was sitting in a stiff backed chair directly across from me. Her posture was that of an alert student in history class. Straight back, shoulders square, knees together, hands resting flat on the tops of her thighs. Cathy exemplified the stereotype of a prim and proper budding y...
It all started when she stopped by my office. I introduced my wife to my co-workers and she stayed for a brief visit. That's all it took. You would swear the guys at my job never saw a beautiful woman before. She wasn't gone for more than five minutes before my office phone was ringing with compliments. It was like the guys saw me in a different light after...
(Michael Dawson knows a thing or two about women. After all, he's made a living from them. But Halloween brings him an altogether new experience!) White light, white pain. Nothing else. Then voices. "This one's a priority..." "Take him right through to theatre..." More voices. Blurred faces. A sharp pricking sensation in the forearm and then a feeling...
With a yawn Lauren sat up in her bed. She normally revelled in the opportunity to stay snuggled up in bed on a day off but this morning she was alone. Her husband Mitch had already left for work and in his place was a cold emptiness that seemed so much more then physical. Gently she patted the soft mattress she was so used to seeing filled. Raising her arms...
Almost a week had passed since Gabriel had the very memorable sauna session with Jessica. Unfortunately, she had been working every day when he had gone to the gym since. She had been openly flirty with other guys at the gym but Gabriel didn't mind. He knew that it helped make her job easier but also, he didn't like double standards. The two weren't dating...
I hadn't seen Mordecai Kilgrave in a week, he had been avoiding me after we last talked. It was Saturday, and I was over his house. We had been friends since college, where we both minored in History. He was a tall, thin man. His hair was raven black, his skin pale and eyes dark. He always wore fitted shirts and vests that accentuated his build. He was a nat...
Seeing the mother ship for the first time changed everything, everything I'd ever known, thought, believed or hoped for in this life. Sure, I'd seen that big mother on screen. But, in person, the immense gravitational reality of that huge space ship sort of crushed my little psyche, squashed it flat, rendered it pathetically insignificant, leaving me feeling...
Chapter 4 - Big Bad & Little Red I slipped into the alley beyond the back hedge, and quickly discovered that it isn't easy to cut a low profile wearing a wrinkly oversized coat, rolled up trousers and a scarf up above your nose - at least not on a warm late-spring day. Not to mention the red high-heeled shoes. I leaned out into the alley and plotted a route...