In this world, various traits and rights of a person can be sold at a public market, and are then taken away from that person until and unless they can buy them back. It sounds weird but if you read the story you'll get the hang of it. Their mother wouldn't let them come along for the actual bargaining. She was afraid it would be too stressful. So the three...
A powerful and potentially dangerous magic spell is uncovered, it holds the vast power over the human body, allowing those who utter it's words to manipulate their own body into any form be it person or object. Allowing them to become whomever or whatever they desire. All they need do is picture the person or object of their desire as the achieve their next...
Life didn't offer a lot of joy for Lydia. Her only daughter was one of them. In fact it was the only thing her former fiancée. Unfortunately the bastard had left her after her pregnancy. She raised her daughter Mary alone, her parents didn't give a lot of help. She thought about finding someone but she failed. Now at 45 she didn't have the mind and the body...
I have known I was a failure for years. My only daughter Magi is an alcoholic. She got pregnant when she was 16 and married and divorced when she was 17. She has also done a terrible job of raising my granddaughter Jackie. Jackie just turned 18 this year and she is a terror to behold. She's just like her mom. Spends all night out with boys drinking and party...
Author’s note – This is a sequel to the ‘latex stripper/Mephisto’ story thread in the original ‘Susan Storm’s Secret Life’: __https://chyoa.com/story/Susan-Storm%27s-Secret-Life.10398 I’ve started with a synopsis recap, for the benefit of those who don’t want to dig through the original sprawling epic! But I’m still happy for people to go back and add chapte...
I'm a psychologist by trade, but I'm far from your mainstream therapist, and I'm certainly not a Freudian—although to be fair, in spite of the faults we can find today in a lot of his theories about the psyche, the guy did open the door to self-reflection, and that can't ever be a bad thing. He thankfully paved the way for (and helped mentor, at least for a...
I was still in shock from what the judge had said, 6 years under my stepmothers care. I couldn't believe it but there was know way I could pay for the property damage and my stepmother was the only one who could. My stepmother and I never got along, in fact we hated each other. When I found out my stepmother would pay for the damages I knew it was a bad deal...
It's the middle of august, your family all decided to go on a final road trip before the season ends, the destination is a large ravine that was discovered right near your home. everything seemed to be going well except for the fact that your sister kept nagging you about how you didn't look happy enough, she said that since they were taking you with them yo...
It had been a shitty week. Really bad. The Windows guys had totally fucked up an update, even after doing a week of regression testing. Well, Charlie and I had, at one point eons ago, been MS certified, so my boss said "go help them". Jeez, that was a mistake. But WE fixed it. Let's be honest, it took me more time to scratch build Gentoo on my home machine....
Tom sat on the park bench and watched his wife queuing at the ice cream stall. They were both hitting 40 this year and he couldn't help ruminate on the nature of his relationship as they planted their feet firmly in middle age. He loved her, no doubt about that but did he desire her? Yes and no. They still had sex and whilst infrequent it was always good and...