Note: The first installment of Barcelona beauties describes all the characters and how the story began. 3: Llora After the bout with Carmen, I noticed that the women who had taken me for granted seemed to regard me with a more appreciative eye. In general they were more chummy with me. Bilan didn't warm up much and Chhaya was afraid to meet my gaze but ev...
Her favorite wine was out of stock and, with just two stores in town, he felt the mounting tension. He had very little time left. The second store, mercifully, had two bottles. With small towns, everybody knows everybody. Commerce is second to gossip. The shopkeeper was deep into her story and the person in front of him had lots of questions about so and so...
Tom, Kevin, and John climbed off the plane into the humid heat of the Dominican Republic for their week long all inclusive vacation. The boys had always talked about taking a trip like this, but until now, there was always something that stopped them from going. An hour later the boys made their way from check-in to the suite they'd be calling home. Kevin...
I was fairly chewing on the knuckles of one of my hands as I watched the team of men pull the Petrof baby grand piano out of the ferryboat at the landing and start to muscle it up to the beat-up old pickup truck. Most of the men looked as scruffy as both the ferryboat and the pickup looked, but this was as good as it was going to get on Daufuskie Island. At...
Last month I moved to a new flat in Rhodes, a riverside suburb newly developed to take advantage of the current rental price gouging in Sydney. This is one of the old pre-boom buildings in a group of older ones, no garage and only one washing line that is in shade all day. The adjoining block of apartments (we share a driveway) has plenty of parking and six...
Errol Tarken returned to work on September 14, 2001, three days after Terrorists leveled the World Trade Towers. Power was disrupted for most of lower Manhattan and public transportation routes were redirected, making it nearly impossible for most businesses to open. When Errol finally got to the century old auction house where he worked, he found the Curato...
Somewhere far above the Earth's atmosphere, an alien ship circled. The aliens would have left days ago - the planet was still far too primitive to merit a contact. But something puzzled them. The inhabitants of this particular planet were puzzling. The aliens, coming from a world dominated by huge oceans, were an amphibian species. As amphibians, they did no...
It was just before Christmas and time to pack up everything in the house and put it in the attic so you could redecorate with "Christmas" things. There were some who loved this activity and there were others that dreaded it like the plague. I will let you guess which one I am. My wife and I spent the entire day doing this and we were both tired. "Why don't...
Sex robot M3 - Evening of day 3. I got home and opened my dresser to find it empty. I had forgotten momentarily that Genie, my controller, had locked my normal clothes in a remote operated footlocker. I went to the footlocker and it was still locked. I unplugged it but it did not release so I plugged it back in. The digital lock could only be opened by he...
Afsoon moved with catlike grace along the corridor of the British Embassy in Azerbaidistan, her gum rubber sandals soundless on the thick wool carpeting. She found the door to the Code Room locked, but a few deft manipulations with her lock picking tools opened it. The room stank of ozone as it also contained the wireless transmitter used to communicate with...