Cevisa was alone in a cold, dark room. Midnight hair tickled her back to spite the gloom. She had long since given up shivering, naked though she was. It was an unwelcoming waiting room, but the light of hope kept her spirits high. The stone below burned against her knees. Above, applause and stampedes alternated with increasing intensity. More people were...
At some point in the small hours of the morning, my wife unpeeled her sticky body from mine and slipped away from me. I heard the shower go on in the master suite. I pulled myself up off the sofa and staggered into the guest suite. I washed the slime of the other men she had been fucking off of my body and stood in front of the misted mirror, wondering what...
4. THE LABYRINTH "So," said Greg, "how does this place work anyway?" The ghost-woman rippled. The two of them had been wandering through the bleak stone maze for what felt like hours. Greg's feet were sore. His back was sore. His arms were sore, because he was lugging that stupid obsidian sword again. Weird how something so awesome could become so tiresom...
When I entered hospice I was admitting that my money had failed to save my life. I'd visited doctors all over the world but I was still here, waiting for my time to come. Barely a year after contracting a disease doctors didn't even have a name for and my time was running out. But if nothing else, dying slowly gives you ample time for reflection. My forty y...
The blazing sun burns down on the island out of a clear blue sky, and I am walking through the stand of palms, my bare feet avoiding the prickly fronds that have fallen from the trees and are littering the path. At the edge of the grove I pause. The warm trade wind is coming straight in off the sea and caressing my body, and I am wearing my briefest swimsuit...
It was 1956, and Bethany was only sixteen growing up in the small town of Bakersfield, Iowa. It was an idyllic time to be a teenager, in an idyllic small Midwestern town. Bethany had always believed that she was blessed to have been born into such a time and place to what, after a time of trial, would become such a wonderful family. She was born a year befor...
Lorna Dane, her short-cropped green hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, walked slowly down the corridors of X-Factor's underground headquarters. The team was currently disbanded...after the death of Havok, not many on the team wanted to carry on. "Hey, Lorna!" came a cheerful voice from behind her. Immediately, the mistress of magnetism recognized it a...
He was seven years old when he met her, and though she was older, she did not look it. A buzz of rumors preceded her, proclaiming her everything from an axe murderer to a space alien, but when she entered class and silently took an empty seat, he was disappointed to find that she looked perfectly normal, apart from her robotic movements and blank expression....
This past weekend was the greatest weekend of sex I have ever had. It started out as a weekend getaway with me, my wife Tera and her best friend Susan along with two other couples at a secluded cabin near a lake. We were relaxing with lots of drinks and food, it was a great time. The first night there we were all partying and my wife and the other women were...
It had been two months since I moved back, and I still didn't feel any more at home. I had lived on the estate several years ago, but that was when my grandfather and uncle were still alive, when we still had live-in servants, when I was still a teenager. It was different now, with the reality of adulthood coming a little too quickly, the mansion and grounds...