Mr. St. Franklin was a difficult man to be friends with. He viewed all others in order of their usefulness to him. Yet, Mr. St. Franklin, defying all odds, had a friend. He was Bob, who was without a doubt the nicest man in the twelve western states (as well as a grand swath of western Canada). Bob and Mr. St. Franklin had known each other since childhood....
Sometimes fortune smacks you right in the face. Such was my good luck last month when I went to visit a friend in the hospital. After buying flowers, I wandered the halls looking for the room number. By mistake, I pushed open the door to the wrong room and peeked inside. There was a woman lying asleep in the bed, and a nurse was tending to her. The nurse l...
Mayra twisted her dusky blue hair up into a neat bun and wrapped a scarf around her head. She knew it would be freezing outside, and she had trouble zipping up her coveralls because of all the layers she wore underneath. The coveralls had a thin seatbelt-like strap around the wings, which snapped shut over a scarf she'd wrapped around the base of her wings f...
I went to a very exclusive small liberal school back east somewhere. It used to be single-sex, but prided itself on a successful transition to co-education. We were known in the nearby town though as a bit of a party school. Well, let's just say actually it was a huge work hard/play hard kind of school. Lots of drugs on Thursday, lots of hung-over kids in th...
35 Days - Chapter 1 I was anxious to get home today after work. I had been monitoring the shipment from California via the US Postal Service and the Canada Post package tracking app. I had ordered a new cock cage on line at the end of November 2018 and wanted it for Christmas. It arrived on the Thursday before. The bus ride home felt excruciatingly longer...
New day, new walk. It's true, the medic though: everything can become a routine. Even the fact that he was keeping in hand what he was keeping in hand. Who could have said that, just a month before? Semiautomatic assault rifle AK74, for its friend "Kalashnikov". For closers, "Kalash", it seemed. Just the new, "upgraded" version of the old AK47. So his drill...
Part Six 'Shrooms by The Preve Thanks to Todger 65 for the edit. Interlude: Hansen's World, construction period, 2nd Age, 2217.08.10. "Here, put this on." "Filters? Why?" "For this." "Whoa! Are those . . .?" "Yep, Galatean mushrooms, heh!" "But . . . but those are illegal! We could get sent up for this! The spores are the most powerful hallucinogen...
"These barbarians?" the aide asked. "Are you certain, Chief? Why not just let them destroy their environment and die off?" Jon O'Connor drew himself up to his full height. "Because forty years ago, some of them saved me." "Oh. It's that planet. But are you going to try and save them all?" "Just the ones that are decent." The aide nodded. "Shall we releas...
"Who did Edward kill?" Lucy tried to keep her voice calm though she felt inches away from falling apart. The pain Jackson felt was clearly visible in his eyes. It was almost too much to take. "My brother Louis. And my father, the former Alpha." "Oh my god, Jackson. I'm so sorry." A tear fell down Lucy's cheek as Jackson's pain transferred through their m...
My life was boring when I answered The Ad. I worked in an office. I went on dates. Sometimes I had sex. It was unfulfilling. I wanted something more. Something exciting. I wasn't sure exactly what that would be, but I knew it had to be more. I knew it had to have that element that makes you slightly uneasy. Or even, very uneasy. Stretching your boundaries....