WARLORDS AND OTHER NOBLEMEN On Monday morning Val and I each got a note that was folded double and stapled that way, which was unusual. Mine asked me to stop in the captain's office before going home that night. Val turned to me with hers in her hand and raised her eyebrows. I nodded. Then I laughed out loud at how easy and natural our non-verbal communicat...
All characters depicted in this story are eighteen years of age or older. ***** Some years back, during my career in the armed forces, I marched into an air force officers' mess where I was billeted for the duration of a course I was to attend on that base. The duty officer, a young section officer who was also assistant mess secretary, looked at my travel...
Urgency always comes in false starts. Whenever there's a crisis, it seems like we rush and rush to take action, and then we sit and wait in tedium for everyone else in the world to catch up. So when a crisis fell in my lap on a Monday afternoon as I was trying to get out the door, I decided to take advantage of the long lulls between me fixing everything to...
Blurb For Nick Silver, an overwhelming sense of disappointment and failure has dogged his life. Yet it is turning his back on the band he co-founded in 1981 that haunts him above all else. Little did he realise back then that they would go on to become a global success, selling millions of records in a career spanning a quarter of a century. And it is not a...
2 – Carina It was an extremely hot summer. I have never liked the heat, but since I was living with Karin I started finding something positive about it: my lovely wife-to-be was wearing all the briefest cloths in her inventory, including a few short dresses I bought her recently, which kept my sexual drive really high. Karin used to say the physically, my...
After the theme music and the applause died down, Pennie Layne announced, “The women on today’s show are gorgeous, but they say men shy away from asking them out because of their physiques. Let’s meet them.” The things you do for relatives. I’d made my pile in the tech stock market of the ‘90s, parleying my initial investment into multiple millions over th...
Authoress's notes: All characters featured in this story are my own creations, in the Star Trek universe. When I wrote this, I didn't research to see if a Federation ship had been named USS Sarek, so the ship in this story is also mine, and not the real one. I hope that everyone enjoys my story. Please leave me positive feedback, public or through email. *...
Warning: Please ensure that you have read Caribbean Cruise before beginning this story, as this is a continuation of that posting. Thank-you, and I hope you enjoy! TheCaptain * * * * * After lunch on Day 1, the bikinis came out... Rick could hardly believe his eyes; the eye-candy was so rich and plentiful! Wherever he looked, there was a Collins woman swa...
Chapter 3: Calm Before the Storm Hardstorm Kentucky: July 31st, 2052 Dazed Travis looked around him and saw David Johnson. His lips were moving but Travis could only hear the ringing in his head. A moment passed and he was reminded of the battle as a chorus of gunfire slowly entered his recovering hearing. He realized that David wasn't talking but shouti...
I grew up on the doorstep of wild dichotomies, yet my parent's never really tried to help us come to terms with the divergent world all around us. There were my four sisters and -- me -- the lone brother, the oldest -- but not by much. My parents went into a kind of reproductive frenzy in 1945 and didn't stop for seven years, and I think my father paused the...