(With thanks to JackJ for his continued comments and suggestions) * * * * * We're in the car, together, driving north. The road moves under us like a ribbon, like we are winding along some impossible Escher reality, twisting and turning on it and somehow we can travel all the sides of it and still find our way back to the side we started on. I feel as thou...
I begin to tap nervously on the arm of the chair, my fingers drumming like the legs of a centipede as my mind races at a million miles an hour in a desperate attempt to work out why I am here. The ad on Craigslist and been very clear but why did I respond? I've never been to see a hypnotist before and actually, as far as I'm concerned they are nothing but co...
During the holidays, Reed, Ace, and I will often frequent each other's families for the bi-annual "eat everything not locked away" celebrations. This past year, Reed's sister Tina hosted and invited us to attend. Tina was about 10 years older than Reed, so she was well settled with kids and quite the sizable home. When we arrived there was plenty to eat an...
When you're a marriage counsellor you come across all sorts of behaviour that might be regarded as abnormal. I once had a couple, John and Paula, who were having relational problems which seemed to me to be almost entirely physical in nature. That is unusual. Anyway I decided to ask them to write down their memories of the first time that they had sex. Obvio...
The fireball had had the desired effect, sowing confusion among the cloaked figures conducting the ceremony. Calleslyn had, at least for the moment, saved the intended victim from her fate, but that hardly meant that the danger was over. As she had said to Dolrim just moments before, there were too many of them, and it was likely that at least some were capa...
It was always a chore for Peter to keep from grumbling aloud when he found himself stuck at the end of the line in the break room. It wouldn't have been too bad if he'd been getting his own coffee but the only reason he ever wandered into the tiny room was because his boss, Kelly, was too lazy to get up off her finely shaped rump and get her own goddamn coff...
I awoke at 8am, Loki had already left. I never spent the night with him before, I don't know why things have changed with him. I sat up in bed and turned my legs toward the floor and went to get up out of bed when I noticed a note on my night table. "I left you an outfit in your closet, please put it on and meet me in the throne room after breakfast" "Hmm"...
Chapter Nineteen Intrepid - 3756 C.E. As if things weren't already weird enough for Paul, they were about to get a whole lot worse. He was already fairly sure that it hadn't been such a great idea that the Intrepid should enter the Anomaly, however much Beatrice argued that it must be worthwhile if Mission Control had authorised it and Captain Kerensky had...
In sixth grade on Valentine's Day, I got a valentine from Ritson Smart. Only it wasn't just a valentine, it also had a stick of gum, Fruity Stripes--the cherry one. We weren't allowed to chew gum at school, so I had to put it away for later. When it came time to compare our valentines, we girls sneaked to a hidden alcove in the bathroom. We called it the Bip...
I had just returned home from the gym when the phone rang. "Harry?" a female voice asked. "Yes, who's this?" I asked. "My name is Sally. I attend the same college as Amy. You know Amy, right?" I replied, "Yes. I met her two days ago, Tuesday. What can I do for you?" (Please refer to the previous episode entitled "Harry, Liz and Amy.") Sally said, "Amy s...