February 2019. Maja Allen. I lay on Spike's bed, staring at the ceiling. It was my eighteenth birthday. I was sad and alone. I'd been working earlier in the day, serving on the counter at Burger World, when Bex and Roz came in. I'd tried to get away, making for the back room, but they'd seen me and shouted my name. "Happy birthday, Maja," said Bex, k...
It was 8:00 AM. Janice's husband had just left for work. Neither she nor he had mentioned that it was her birthday; perhaps he had forgotten again. Now she stood by an open window removing the pajamas she'd spent the night in. Jim didn't know how much she hated the hot cotton things that he'd given her the previous Christmas. The breeze from the window felt...
He ordered the phone to disconnect and sat down crosslegged. Breathing deeply, he slowly flexed his well-built body one muscle at a time, emptying his busy mind. The deal was complete. His secretary in Tiensin had just called to confirm his flight back home to United Korea in the morning. Finally, he could relax. He refilled and drained his small sake cup as...
Gwen's surprise at her friends' practical joke was total. As she stood looking at her family with her mouth open, Steve hugged her shoulders to him and whispered in her ear. "This was Lisa's idea. She had the patches waiting for her on the helicopters and passed them out when you weren't looking. Are you going to be able to laugh this off?" "Are you kiddin...
I looked at the category "Loving Wives", and wondered. I feel sure this was intended to be stories of the love of one wife per story, and the plural "wives" was because there were many stories in the category. However, this is one chapter about several loving "wives". In the most pedantic sense therefore this is fits the "Loving Wives" category. And in any c...
Part 8 - London Chapter 14 - A Recruiting Trip Abroad After the fuss over whether Janice should be recruited, Liu called two days later and asked if I was interested in a trip to London. "The Head of R&D for the Asians is giving a talk at a major trade show next week. His assistant called and wondered if you could hop over there for a day or two to discus...
Part 1 It was a cold and dreary day in south Texas. Well, ok...not cold. But chilly for south Texas. Mid-50's and overcast skies made it feel pretty cool, at least when you were just sitting around the house playing on the computer. Too drizzly to go out and do anything. Jannie shivered again and wished that her husband, Bobby didn’t have to work today. It...
"Hey, hey, hey, Tanaka," a eighteen-year old Chinese boy said to Reo after the peeper opened his own apartment's front door, the Chinese gangster speaking Japanese with a Chinese accent. "I'm Li Wei. I fuck a new girl, or woman, each week. Sell people, buy them, the usual. And a mutual friend of ours hired my services. She wants me to entertain you, so you w...
The story of my life with computers and the internet goes back to Klamath Falls, Oregon, Pelican Elementary School and a number of primitive educational games such as "number munchers" and "the Oregon Trail." When playing, you could hear the insides of these early computers zooming and cranking to animate a small green-dotted buffalo running across the prair...
At Samuel Ezra Xander University, a small, private, liberal arts college on the east coast there are several options for freshman living. One of these options is the Johnson Complex, and it’s considered the best place a freshman could live. Twelve buildings, Forty-Eight students per building, a lounge, every room has AC, and it’s in a great location on campu...