"Oh my God! Look at the prices on some of these prom dresses. I can't afford these?" "Quit pouting already. Carwash cash to the rescue." Britney pelted her bestie Cryssa on the forehead playfully. "I thought we were saving that money for our Daytona trip." "We have enough. Besides we can always throw another carwash." Tara Zellers bulges her eyes, "Anot...
I remember now how my eye was drawn to him when he was merely one of my prisoners. Having no idea who he was, he nevertheless seemed... unique, dignified and strong even in chains. I paused and my generals paused with me. Their gazes followed my own. "Ah, you recognize him, my Queen?" Auggie asked, drawing herself up as she met his glower. "No," I replied,...
We returned home without further incident. Linda stayed in bed for the rest of the week and as much as I wanted to be with them Anne thought it best I not visit until "the dust settled." That turned out to be a really good idea. It gave me time to consider all I had done over the weekend and I can't say I was particularly proud of myself. I had been out of c...
I slipped down into the bracing embrace of the pool, and let the cool, clear water seep into every pore. A piercing grasp of cold took hold of my heart almost immediately, setting it leaping with earnest, cleansing adrenaline. All the dust and sweat and dried-on fluids of the last few days began to just drift away. While the silver-spun moonlight and gentle,...
Author's Note This is but a single part in a series of stories. To avoid confusion, I would advise reading the previous two parts first. Unlike the previous stories, this one is all plot, without a single sexy interlude. None of the stories has had a particularly happy ending thus far, and this one is no different. But, this ties them all together, so th...
The Morning After Good friends Tyrone, Dawn and Jenny all lay sprawled out in Dawn's Queen Size bed as naked as the day they were born in deep slumber after a raucous bout of drunken, frenzied three way sex the evening prior. Dawn was the first to awaken from a buzzing sound. It took her a moment to register what it was. It was coming from one of the mobile...
The planet Luxos 4 was a world that tourists visited in a continuous string of spaceliners. With little surface water, the weather tends to be benign and predictable and the whole surface of the planet within the temperate zones was covered in a thick carpet of ancient deciduous trees, hundreds of feet high. The first settlers, a thousand Earth years before...
Ever since my divorce I immersed myself in the many things I had previously denied myself. One of them was motorcycling. I had let my license lapse so I redid it. Friggin graduated licensing now, I can't ride at night, 'til the next stage. I also can't carry a passenger and I have to have zero blood alcohol level. The alcohol isn't a problem. The divorce was...
Notes: Head-rooms: “Max-Headroom,” a television show originating from 20th Century Earth in which an artificial intelligence construct is tapped from a Network 53 cameraman. Mega-plex: A large, multi-level agricultural complex. Crops and livestock are raised beneath domes to minimize the effects of weather, temperature, and insects on output. 47 Ursae...
"This floor's clear, Diane. We can go up to the top level," Stan muttered as they met at the stairway. It was an elegant mansion: a dacha for a party official in the Ceausescu regime. Built around an elegant, three story entryway featuring a crystal chandelier, the ample dwelling had space for a large retinue, but now it was rather empty with drop cloths cov...