Chapter 1 -- An Arrow Astray "Verily, these are dark times... the tension pervading these lands is reaching a breaking point. All appears to be progressing in the manner it should... yet I fear something to be not as it seems. Yes... if history continues on its current trajectory, it may be irreparably damaged in the end. It is time. I can no longer maintai...
I stretch, making sure my workout clothes move with me. I don't really need to work out, my magical nature keeps me at peak condition, but I enjoy it. I need a partner to keep me motivated though. Samantha refuses to even consider it, and Alex doesn't have a consistent enough schedule to join in, so I have to fall back on my magic. I hear the knock on the do...
"I can't believe Dad woke us up so early to come shovel horse shit. What the fuck?" "I can't believe he called my Dad and asked him if I could come help. I was cozy in my warm bed dreaming hard about your sister. Now look at me. Pushing a wheel barrel of smelly shit out of a horse barn. My Dad just laughed and kicked me out of the house. Said it was good f...
Foreword: The first profitable mass literature in America arrived in 1860 when the dime novel (AKA Penny Dreadfuls in England) appeared.. With America's and indeed much of the world's attention focused on the Wild, Wild West, and the Civil War, these cheap books became a sensation very quickly. Popular authors were Buntline, Ellis, Ingraham and Wheeler. With...
The SHTF, Fallout and Time to Leave The sound of the soft swish-swish-swish of the propellers on the dirigible could be heard over the morning birds and insects waking in Vern's Dale. I thought they'd take longer than this, Alyssa thought as she sat in the tree overlooking her home, dressed in her Ghillie suit. At least the guys have better than an eight...
Monday morning Sara, Shannon and I were on the highway heading back home to the ranch after a very good sales week at the rally. Nigel and his four girls were following close behind us in a separate van that they had rented to make the trip from the Twin Cities to the Sturgis Rally. Nigel's girls were going to entertain my cowboys for the next two days and...
How could Priscilla let herself get in this situation? Just yesterday morning she was living a normal life, enjoying her new teaching job at a community college, living in her new apartment in Baltimore after moving from the south, a move so welcome to her after her marriage to that s.o.b. Vince finally ended. But yesterday afternoon changed it all - caugh...
Author's Note: This is my sixth semi-annual "invitational." The initial one was based on the Statler Brother's song, "This Bed of Rose's." The second used the Marty Robbins El Paso trilogy: "El Paso" "El Paso City " and "Faleena." The third had stories based on the various versions of "Maggie May" or "Maggie Mae." The fourth invitational was based on any Co...
Batgirl: Ravishing Revenge The city of Gotham plunged into darkness for several tedious weeks. A victim to the clutches of the devious criminal the Joker. A city that never sleeps has had too many night without sleep as the underbelly terrorizes the honest citizens of Gotham. A petite librarian Barbara Gordon like many other citizens had too many tireless n...
Now that I have gotten my wife to fuck other guys, and that she has been servicing a few of my friends on a regular basis for the last two months, an event that happened with my best friend Tony stands out. Tony and I grew up together since the beginning of high school. Tony is as black as black can get. He is also a very smart guy in the communications ind...