Your feedback is most welcome. ***** My name's Dan Zander. I've been working as a journalist since I graduated from college. For a long time I covered local news for local newspapers, basically hopping from one sinking ship to the next. Fifteen years ago I got a break, and for a while now I've been in the jet set, working for Rolling Stone. Traveling a...
The following story is a work of fiction that takes place in an alternate time line to our own. The time line diverges from ours during world war two. Tensions remained high between the US and Japan. The US never dropped atomic bombs to force a submission. Only a cease fire was ever established. Japan remained a world power, and grew enormously wealthy. Thro...
Sitting at his desk on the seventh floor of the G4S Secure Solutions headquarters in the City of Tokyo, Japan, Dwayne Lucien looked at the nighttime skyline of Tokyo, and smiled. What's a humble brother from Fayetteville, Georgia, doing around these parts? Dwayne privately wondered. The Capital of Japan, while superficially similar to many other world-class...
Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won the coveted Akutagawa Prize in 1976, for his semi-autobiographical story of teenage experimentation with sex and drugs near a US Military Base in Japan. He continues his exploration of the decadent, dark side of Japanese society in Coin Locker Babies (2002) and in his most recently translated book In t...
This story is written by both Dice Casden and Kristi as part of the D&K Universe Note: Hiroko's speaking style is intentional! ****** In the early weeks of January 2005, following a successful WWE Tag Team title defense at a special live event in Tokyo, Japan, Rob Van Dam, dressed in a red and white wrestling attire, and Rey Mysterio, wearing white wrest...
Darcie had been widowed six months now after the staggering loss of her husband to suicide. He didn't even leave a note. The fact that he left her alone in the world was bad enough but not even an explanation was almost to much to bear. She was a young woman, all of 30, with a future ahead of her and this is how she must play the hand she was dealt. Darcie...
Brian is a business associate who I don't know all that well, but we always get along well when we talk. He's a salesman from a company that our company does business. We usually talked sports. Last week, since the World Cup had started we talked about some of the matches that had been the most exciting. I told him my girlfriend Hana was excited that her t...
Please vote. Please give me the support of your vote. I dedicate this story to Walter from Southern California. * Ruth confesses the sexual affair she had with Jack, Jay's older friend and neighbor. The final leg and the culmination of a long, tiring trip home from Japan, Jay's taxi drove down his street and neared his house. A quiet street with a lot...
It Was a Surprise, and Not a Good One ***** It was at Rowdy's, a country-western place about a mile out of town. She was sitting with two other girls and as soon as I set eyes on her I knew I just had to try or I'd regret it forever. The band was Without a Net, and they were playing a twostep. I walked over to their table and asked her for a dance. She sm...
Here I was, on a Super Constellation. Heading to NAS Atsugi, Japan. Me, a South Georgia farm boy that had never been away from home. I had completed Storekeeper's School in San Diego, and my first duty station was an AF (refrigerator ship) out of San Francisco. My first duty was Mess Cooking. Army recruits would know this as KP, but the Navy was different....