I don't know how long I lay in the white room. A loud bang woke me. I felt tingly all over, like my limbs were finally beginning to thaw out. I tried turning but again I couldn't move. "Good morning, Katie," a voice rang out behind me. I could hear a scratching sound and, of course, the whoosh whoosh whoosh. I tried moving my head, but she was out of sight...
Author's Notes: (1) I have no idea where this story was lurking in my subconscious. It's dark and horrible, and maybe it springs from a fear of isolation from love and human contact; I don't know. (2) But for some reason I had fun writing this. And jeez, that's a scary statement. (3) For all you trolls out there, blast away. This one's for you. ***** Ja...
Prologue I am groggy. I open my eyes and I do not know where I am. The room I am lying in is white. I am on a hospital bed, or gurney, and everything around me is white white. My body feels like it weighs a thousand pounds. I try to move, but I can't. Nothing is responding. Not my arms, not my hands, not my legs. I fear I am paralyzed. I try to speak, but t...
Flash story. Winning by losing. All sex between consenting adults over 18. Be nice in comments, please. *** Poor Dumb Cuckold Valerie was certain of her husband's love. The weak man she married worshipped the ground on which she walked. Too bad for him that in the last few years she had come into her own, become the master of their relationship, and deci...
With a clink, the can fell into my shopping cart, briefly muffling the tune of the easy-listening music in my ears. It bounced a bit before coming to rest gently against the bag of carrots that sat behind it. I looked up, smiling - not at anything in particular. Today was good. Today, I'd get my groceries for the week and spend some quiet time alone, finally...
Chapter 32 Who Lives, Who DiesTwo doctors, a fourth-year resident who was a woman and a third-year who was a man, sat slouched in their chairs in their rumpled scrubs in the doctor's lounge off the ER of San Francisco General Hospital, watching a re-run of Grey's Anatomy. A third doctor, also a resident and a man, slept on the couch, turned with his back to...
Shortly after my lunch break, the day took a turn for the worse. We got a new patient, two-year-old Dylan who suffered from epilepsy and had been rushed to the hospital by ambulance with high fever and seizures. The paramedics had been able to stop the seizures on their way to the ER but the doctors wanted him to stay for observation so Mike and I admitted h...
The three ladies moved about in the comfortable bonus room Dr. Killian had designed for them. In one corner of the room, Keery sat at a small table with a drawing pad. The table was painted with a champagne colored finish with a translucent gloss making it look as if it were fit for a princess. A simple cream colored velvet cushion served as the seat in whic...
The use of the word Tranny is not meant to be disrespectful; it is used as it was in the past although not politically correct at this time. ***** There is a rare moment during an eclipse when the sky turns dark red and winds seemingly gather together from nowhere, as if to celebrate the celestial event. I had come from a business meeting that ran late tha...
"That's my girl Jayla over at the yellow sea horse. Which one is yours?" "I don't have one, yet. I'm prospecting to get a feel for what it's like to come out here." "You white folks have a lot of discipline. I popped my first one with sixteen." "Well, the economy is hard. A month after Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, my husband's production line was black-lit...