Sometime in the Past "Hey...Hey!" a Japanese man waved. Nik took his earphones off. He was jogging on a treadmill and didn't notice the man say hello. "Hi." "You look in good shape. Do you come here often?" the man asked. "Sometimes, when work lets me. Why?" The Japanese man was skinny like a marathon runner. There didn't appear to be an ounce of...
In just a matter of 15 minutes Nora had managed to learn where everything in the kitchen was kept from the food in the pantry to the dishes in the cupboard. After spending nearly an hour with the other servants the meal was done. At any moment, Marshall told her, her new master would be waiting in the dining room for his meal. "Come, Nora. Master Harris is...
Here is a quick update as I have had some spare time. Thank you for all the feedback from comments, email and voting and I'm glad that some of you like plot and character based narrative. I do want to stress that there is no Benedict Bay hotel in the location previously described (well there wasn't the last time I looked because it is a lagoon) and all char...
"How's the party girl?" asked Lisa as she walked into our bedroom. I turned to tell her that Janet seemed okay, but before I had the chance, she saw my wife ungracefully sprawled out naked on the bed. "She's naked!" she exclaimed. "What are you two perverts doing? Bill! For heavens sake, give her some privacy!" "Nothing I haven't seen before," replied Bill...
Detectives Rebecca Ramirez and Stacy Tsao walked into the burnt out building. The sickening smell of burnt flesh filled nostrils. The drawback of working arson. "Ramirez, and Tsao, Arson Division," Rebecca told the fire marshal at the scene. "Got any idea what happened?" Both detectives wore a standard dress suit but had their top buttons undone to show...
A huge orange sun glowed in the iron gray sky above a small, jungle-shrouded planet. Three planets shadowed the weak light of the dying sun, spreading around it like stepping stones, or the spread of a winning hand in a poker game. A gentle breeze ruffled the umbrella-like canopy in the top of a 600 foot tall tree. It was the only movement in the alien lands...
So, we have reached the end of this strand of the story. Chapter 12 is unique because I get to introduce you to another fantastic writer, Andi Downs, with whom I create the story Brother Wolves. No, it's not really collaboration, but more of related stories. Two of the new characters in 12, the wolves twins, are brothers to her dragons in her story, Dragon T...
"Wrong...wrong...wrong...super wrong...Capital of USA...London...Capital of England...France...Fuck sake. I'm dealing with a class of morons," Nik thought to himself. "How much more basic can I make this class." A giant stack of papers filled a box on his desk. It was the latest geography test he handed out during the day. Basic stuff. Capitals of states an...
Author's Note: The following is a work of fiction. It may or may not contain characters based on persons living or dead and may or not may contain actions completed by these same persons who may or may not have lived. The world where this story takes place is an alternate reality where sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies do not exist (no...
Hey, there. My name is Veronique Anglin. A six-foot-one, heavyset and dark-skinned young Black woman living in the city of Brockton, Massachusetts. By day, I am a patrol officer for the Brockton City Police Department. I've been working for the local police precinct ever since I graduated from the Boston Metropolitan Police Academy. Prior to that, I spent fo...