This is one of several extra "mini stories" that are supplements to the Beach House series. Some of these will be elements of the story that I had in my head as I was writing a particular chapter, but which were left out because I couldn't fit them in or they didn't lend themselves to the first-person narration of the story. Others will be side stories that...
[Author's Note: This is just a fun, relatively plotless little short story using two characters from one of my favorite anime shows.] The smartly dressed man fumbled awkwardly for words. The two women before him were imposing figures. One was an assassin called "Twilight" Suzuka, a woman of distant Asian lineage, a lineage back from when Earth was a releva...
I really hate to sleep alone. I'm used to having a man next to me while I sleep because it comforts me. Sex really has nothing to do with it. Of sure, I love to have sex with my sleeping companion as well since it relaxes me, but afterward to fall asleep with a man you trust who can protect you is a wonderful feeling. Though I believe in the equality of men...
Authors note: If you didn't like my story, "The Racist" you won't like this one either. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I met her eyes across the room and she smiled a knowing smile and then turned her attention back to the woman she was talking to. That little knowing smile had said it all, loud and clear, "You want me and I know it." She was ri...
Ah, ha!—Come, some music! Come, the recorders!—Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 * I used to work around the corner from that church, and I remembered the day the fire tore through the building. There was a lot of snow. It was in December, about ten days before Christmas. The fire trucks had a tough time getting through. It took years to rebuild the church, and by...
"You want me to write a story about what?" I sat there across from my feature editor Phillip and wondered if possibly your hearing could go bad just like that. "I want you to give me 10,000 words on the B&D, you know, bondage and domination scene here in Seattle." I ran a hand through my hair, "Jesus, Phil, isn't that something best left to Jerry Springe...
I had lured Veronica up to my graduate dorm room to see my fish mate. Seriously. Veronica was an extremely beautiful, dark-haired lovely. She was completely out of my league. Veronica was only dating me because she hadn't found a replacement for her usual type of boyfriend. Veronica had gone out with me a couple of times, and that evening we had gone to a mo...
The final bell had just rung and I dismissed the class, letting them join the screaming horde that was rampaging through the halls of the school. I take English and the final class had been my senior group. They'd had essays due today and I collected them as they left, squashing any excuses for non-delivery. I don't exactly fail a student for non-delivery; I...
The US government swears androids are not sentient. They assure everyone that companies like Speculation.net Robot Inc follow all the protocol and install all of the safety protocols that are demanded of them. No matter what happened to it an android should never be able to have a thought for itself. Of course there are a lot of strange things that happen...
The reason the first alien species, Zooms, came to Earth, was not for purposes of destruction and annihilation, as many doomsday prophets had long predicted. It was not to find a new habitable planet, as many others suggested. It was not for scientific exploration, nor was it even flat out curiosity, as many optimists had opined over the years. The thing whi...