The Rejuvenation of Dravo Asta Vera knew who Dravo Asta was, the aged monkey warrior was the chief's uncle and had been the defacto chieftain until Tragon, the present chief, was of an age to assume his duties. He'd been quite the wily statesman and warrior – warring with the neighboring monkeyfolk tribes, expanding the territory, then negotiating the pea...
"What? Why.... monkey?" Will stammered. "Very eloquent." she laughed. "Monkey!?" he repeated. "It's a witch thing." Bella grinned. "He's my familiar." "You have a familiar now?" Will said, impressed. "Isn't that pretty high up on the witch achievement scale?" "Middle-range, really." Bella gave a one-shouldered shrug. "I had him watching from outside in...
Wayne entered the curio shop in an obscure corner of Manhattan, seeking a novel gift for his little brother, Jack. He spied a fat Buddha with a huge hard-on. Asking, he was told that the Horny Buddha was over a thousand years old, and came from the headwaters of the holy Ganges River in India. The asking price was nine hundred dollars. Wayne had made a fortu...
As they walked the paths looking into the cages at the various animals they talked of the extinctions and of the once common animals that are now rare. Both were interested in conservation and talked of the tragedy of what was happening in the world. More embarrassing, they thought, were the extinctions in their own region, the loss of the numbats, bilbys, b...
Alpha Chase Nygaard's POV Over Northern Minnesota Vic and Spider were awake for the last part of the flight to Duluth because no one could sleep through that kind of turbulence. The pilots had us buckled in and seats up as we passed over the strong winter storm. Wind gusts tossed the plane around, and we all just held on and waited. Finally, just before...
Thou hast answered a call by the United Federation of Civilizations for settlers to take ship for the newly discovered world of "Dacien Primaris". The United Federation of Civilizations began as a grand experiment on on world at the center of the Northern Spiral Arm of what thou, (The Reader,) wouldst know as the Andromida Galaxy. Yet, verily, not...
Readers; I couldn't get the idea for this 'dirty-old-man' story out of my mind, so I went ahead and wrote it. I suppose this is a tale of forbidden seduction, but after writing it, I'm not sure of who seduced whom. Did the 'old man' seduce his 'innocent' neighbor or did the 'young woman' seduce him? If you have an answer, please let me know. Thank you. (Pa...
Chapter 11 - Soul Sisters of Sapphos We had been in Barney for two months, I had planted the oats as soon as the pipes were laid for the subsoil watering system and the oats were starting to grow pretty well in the new field. The oats planted in the terraced fields as a safety measure were up and growing much better, probably due to the manure that was spre...
We'd made the plans. We'd meet at Perth Airport and fly to Port Hedland and then charter a helicopter to take us to isolated Monkey Mia beach. At last the day has come. As the Cessna landed on the beach we could see that we were alone. We jumped down and waved the pilot goodbye. He wouldn't be back until 1 hour before sundown. Monkey Mia is beautiful. Glea...
Erkos woke grateful that he no longer had to sleep in a hammock, since that was just an all around bad idea. Today, the Chef, Croop, decided that it was time for turtle soup. Erkos thought to himself. Well that's better than horribly burnt swine. Erkos shrugged and went up on deck, a mischievous thought dancing into his mind. Looking up to the riggings he c...