Dana was transferring to Japan from Europe- her parents wanted her to try education in different countries, so she’d been globetrotting since she'd started school and it hadn't changed when she grew up and went onto college. She hadn’t seen her parents in person in years- both she and they had video cameras and they would record “letter's” to each other on a...
One week later, after having endured a week of intense army and jungle survival training, with several Kukuana nursing aides, all of whom were to be assigned to anyone of the several military medical clinics in and around Kukuanaland, Darla and Shelly packed their bags for Kisangani, where Mombassa had decided to send both of them for the first of their plan...
I first met Kiki in a youth hostel in New Zealand. I arrived late one afternoon at the hostel where there were several people in the kitchen, preparing an evening meal. I usually preferred Asian style food and so while I was travelling, I would prepare stir-fry dishes. I would pick up the ingredients, some form of meat and vegetables during the day. I carrie...
I arrived at Yokota AB in the middle of the winter, having spent the last year and a half in Thailand. It was cold. I was used to the high temp, high humidity of Siam. I was sure I wouldn't like it. The first few days flew by as I checked into the squadron and went to my assigned shop. I was ensconced in a barracks on the base. That sucked, but being an E-4...
Japan can feel like a strange and alien place to a Westerner, but I think it's wonderful. I am not really a city person, but these have a wow factor, especially when lit-up at night-time with their twinkling, rainbow brightness, constant noise and busy-ness. It's the history, culture and countryside of Japan that I love the most, which is why I was delight...
One Alec wasn't sure why he was at the party. For one thing, he disliked the host, a loud-mouth Wall Street attorney who enjoyed exhibiting his affluence. Secondly, there were too many people in the rooms, the small Upper East Side apartment filled to capacity with bodies of one sort or another, male, female, and various intermediates of uncertain sexuality...
This is a calculated risk, the first chapter of a fairly long story I've been struggling with off and on for several months. When I hit a dry spell, I fleshed out a few ideas for shorter pieces and submitted them, but this story started calling me again. I've almost finished it, but unfortunately the most incomplete chapter is the next one. I was going to wa...
I have what I started calling, a few years ago, a Janus Complex. I do not believe this is an actual condition as listed in the DSM, and psychiatric types would likely scoff, but I believe it's real. Janus, as you may know, was the two faced Roman god of beginnings and passages - hence he looks in two different directions. In my case, it represents two opposi...
Colin was a large man, in every way. He was over six foot tall and weighed over two hundred pounds, all of it muscle. His job in the Australian outback was a tough one, and you had to be fit to survive. Now, however, he was on holiday, visiting Japan and enjoying the sites, just another tourist in that busy city. One of the things that Colin was going to...
Don't forget to vote or leave a comment. Hopefully you like how the story is progressing! And my apologies for being away for so long. _______________________________________ "I can't make it in today. I feel like shit." Kaori shivered and sank deeper into her blankets. "But, Minamoto-san, we can't shoot the scene without you," her assistant's nervous vo...