In this third segment a new female protagonist is introduced. She's occasionally referred to as a child. The author categorically states if the character came to Earth from The Known World modern science would prove she has lived a minimum of 18 years (or as the inhabitants of The Known World would say: "What is a year?") They have a different concept of tim...
This is a story I wrote a while ago, under another pen name. This is all there is at the moment, and you won't find any steam in this bit, but you can guess where it's heading. It's Urban Fantasy with some fairly unusual characters and background. I personally like it but it hasn't raised much interest on another website I publish on, maybe because it doesn'...
Nina spent the morning sneaking around. She snuck around her house, packing for the trip at an hour too indecent to wake her housemates. She snuck along the sidewalks, around early-morning drunks and coffee-clutching workers, heading for the bus stop. She should have been excited for this summer getaway, and part of her was. But it would be the first time...
Unnamed Planet, Sector 98-A, Neutral Space The Milky Way Galaxy 2398 "Uh oh." Tiffany Winters did not want to hear 'uh oh.' She didn't want to hear 'oh dear' or 'fuck' or 'shit' or anything like that but she most definitely did not want to hear 'uh oh.' In fact, she didn't want to hear anything at the moment. At the moment, her head felt as if it was be...
World Peace Initiative Back on the Poseidon and ready to return to Earth, Mark could tell something was bothering Rayven. Figuring it was because he had left her on the ship today, he apologized for not taking her to the surface. Rayven just hugged him and said that wasn't what was upsetting her, as she started describing the call she just had with Annabel...
Stardust: Indian wife and Black Adonis Author's note: The following story is a pure work of fiction, all characters and events in the tale are imaginary and fictitious. Although, human imagination is also influenced by external stimuli. In the case of author, someone has always served as poetical inspiration to imagine, fantasize, think and write. So, this...
My name is Matt Stewart. I'm in my late twenties and working for a property development company in El Paso Texas. I'm pretty good at what I do and have always had aspirations of owning my own real estate company. I used most of my early commissions to flip a couple of inner-city houses. This gave me enough cash for something bigger. Blair Mountain had been...
Chapter 21 The blizzard arrived just before dawn, with enough force that it almost extinguished the bonfire despite the windbreak. Fergus trudged over to Sarette. "Come help me!" he shouted over the howling of the wind. "If we move the firewood and build another wall closer to the fire, it'll keep it from going out!" "I'll do it!" she yelled back. "You sh...
This is a resubmission as the original was fraudulently reported as not having RichardGerald's blessing to publish an alternate ending. Please join me thanking the person who keeps reporting my stories, the attention gets me extra readers. Also join me in wishing the site administrators would check some of these malicious claims before acting. Finally, rest...
I almost never write topical stories, but this Covid-19 thing deserves commemoration. So, with apologies to Boccaccio, here's my stab at a "plague story." It's shorter than most of my pieces, largely because it started to oppress me even as "social distancing" is oppressing us all. Perceptive readers may recognize the main character, who once got his hig...