Chapter Two -- The Dishonored Outcast In the Grand Duchy of Upper Danubia, all accused criminals had the right to a trial. Serious offenders, people facing either the collar or the death penalty, automatically were assigned a Spokesman. Spokesmen were court employees whose duties included trying to find mitigating circumstances and exculpatory evidence for...
This story is set in colonial Kenya in the 1920s and 30s. The Happy Valley crowd actually existed, as did the house called Clouds as described at length in the movie 'White Mischief' based on the book by the same name. The narrator, however is highly fictional, as in those days not many Africans could read and write, much less put down a story like this. Wel...
Dirty sex or is that really dirty sex? The difference to be honest, is often nothing more than a Johnson and Johnson wipe. With tensions high, lust in the air, it's so easy to forget the most basic of hygiene tricks that can really prevent putting a damper on good clean sex. It maybe curiosity or pure voyeurism that has led me to delved into the inner world...
Well it didn't start as one of the legends; it was all to mock me. By the way, I'm Jide Ekpo. I loved browsing the internet, data cost made me delve into converting radio frequency into data connection so as long as there was a radio station, TV station or GPRS for tele-communication I could have access in my village home, with the tall trees serving as my...
LIIThe Streets of LondonEugenie2099 It had been a long and arduous trek to London from her distant home in a plague-ridden village in rural East Midlands, but Eugenie was determined to get as far as she could from all that she'd used to know and all the memories associated with it. Although Eugenie had lived all her young life in one of the English Republ...
It had been sometime since my beautiful mistress had placed a collar around my neck and that of my new 'sister' Sarah. I had effectively given up my work, however the money raised by an app I had created kept nicely filling my bank account as I toiled for Hilary as an unpaid stable hand and slave. You see I was no longer Claire Fullerton, systems analyst an...
(For us the oval is the sporting centre of a community. We play cricket in summer and football in winter on the oval. The tennis/ netball courts are usually nearby. It is maths, not math. We can count more than to one which entitles us to the "s".) * The Mayor of Juniper Berry shook as he unwound the scroll. He read it aloud to the chancellors and council...
What was it my brother said when enraged? Oh yeah, I remember. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. Seeing my husband Jerry and his cheap blond floozy emerge from the Blue Bird motel definitely enraged me. Pounding the steering wheel, the radio playing a Three Dog Night tune, the car heater warming the interior of the car, I watched them through the dirty w...
Anari found the building, on her first visit, cold and uninviting. Truth be told, if there were a possibility of running away from her desperate situation she would have done. She had found herself getting deeper and deeper in a clinging quicksand of debts, from which there was little escape. She shuddered as she remembered the expression on her bank manager...
John awoke to a pulsing contraction flexing around his entire body. Wearily his eyes began to open and adjust to the natural light around him. He had a splitting headache and his body felt like he'd run several consecutive marathons. It was like the worst hangover he had ever experienced. As his eyes regained their focus, he scoped his surroundings. He wa...