A warm summer zephyr whips its way joyfully down the Terrace. It lifts skirt and coat hems in voyeuristic delight. I adore this time of year, and from my vantage point up here, I am queen. Most dismiss me as invisible in my shapeless clothing, with my nametag and cap that proclaim the company's name: "Krystal Kleen Windows". I abhor bad spelling, but I am an...
Unconscious Camilla was now reliving a memory that had occurred three years before the aquarium incident, so she was thinking back to when she was thirty-four and lecturing in McGill University in late October. She was discussing two passages in Moby-Dick. "'In Chapter 35, 'The Mast-Head', Herman Melville writes of how we can be lulled into an opium-like, l...
Dedicated to Russkere for his artwork in general and "Klingonned Andorian" in particular * * * * * "You may drive a hard bargain, cap'n," said the merchant through his unkempt beard, "but there are only so many deuterium dealers on this neutral station. One, to be precise. Me." Jamie T. Clit, Captain of HMS Enterass, rested her chin on her hands and peere...
With a shiver I closed the book. Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" always held a certain morbid fascination for me, no matter how often I read it. I finished the last drops of the red wine on my bedside table and turned off the light. Cuddling into my covers as if they were the arms of a fantasy lover I surrendered to the misty shrouds of dream lan...
It was early evening on a hot summer day as Olivia paced around her bedroom, shedding sweaty clothes and leaving them strewn about without much thought. Her hair felt remarkable clean despite the gardening and other activities she had done that day, but in many places her mocha skin shined with the evidence of heavy perspiration. Her socks had been discarded...
Jake sighed as he cleaned the test-tubes. He was a freshman, and realized that he needed to pay his dues to get the really choice assignments in the lab, but cleaning the results of grad students experiments was still really nasty. Although, the job wasn't without its perks. One of the perks was that he was always the last one in the lab in the evenings - li...
(Thanks to Jen Lit Girl for the edit.) In hindsight, like all stupid ideas it seemed like a good one at the time; but then, so did the Tuskegee experiments. "If you could do it to poor niggers, spics, and retards you can do it to anyone," so the head of the Project said. Of course he was the type of person to say those things. He came from a long line o...
"American Airlines flight 1351 to Dallas is now boarding from gate A37." The voice came over the loud speaker. Kelly, along with one hundred and fifty three other people gathered their carry on luggage, laptops, purses and back packs and stood in line as the gate attendants scanned each persons ticket stub. A trip she had made many times in the past, she...
Unconscious Camilla was in the middle of reliving a memory from two years before the aquarium incident. She was thirty-five at the time, and doing a lecture on The Taming of the Shrew for her students in a classroom in McGill University. "Female audiences don't need to be offended by Kate's speech, advocating wives' subservience to their husbands, at the en...
This is a true story but it is from memories almost twenty years old. I will not give names as they are not needed. In my life I have been sexually involved with 39 women at different times I never cheated on any of them,never saw two at the same time, and that's not a great number to some people but I never tried to rack up a score card, I was just looking...