"It's your move, John." "Oh. Sorry." Startled, I refocused my eyes on the Monopoly board in front of us. We were in the midst of a heated and highly contested match. This particular game had gone on much longer than we expected. All four of us had properties built up with hotels - we'd been playing long enough that there were no more properties to buy and...
This is chapter two of six chapters. You may want to read the previous chapter before this one. Estragon copy-edited this chapter. * I called Sheila mid-week and asked her if she wanted to come to the fish fry on Friday. She said she was happy to hear from me and we decided on a time for me to pick her up. I wasn't totally sure of this relationship since...
This was going to be the best night of my life. He was coming to dinner. The man of my dreams was coming to dinner and I was atwitter with excitement and behaving like a schoolgirl with her first crush. I had taken the afternoon off work to prepare. I had called in to the markets on the way home to collect the fresh ingredients for his favourite dishes, the...
Jack's attitude had suddenly changed. He was no longer the open-minded man that Helen had become used to. The urgent call from Harry had changed him. He became more protective and hostile and Helen was desperately fighting him off most of the time. He had a plan to remove the danger from her life that she did not agree with and Jack was adamant that it was t...
"Gosh, Lavinia! No one told us that Transylvania would be so cold!" I rolled my eyes at the whiny voice of my friend who huddled as close as possible to me as we walked down the cobbled streets. Sure, it was pretty cold and was indeed snowing quite heavily, but I made sure to only complain about it once out of shock when I stepped from the bus. "It's winte...
Here he was again, sitting on his ass waiting to board his flight. He didn't feel more secure, just more bored and frustrated. He'd learned to create games to amuse himself during the interminable wait. The holding pen was about half full...everyone looked equally bored. Without staring, he surveyed all the women passengers. His game was to look each of them...
Chapter Five The Sahara Desert - 3723 C.E. There was much about the Solar System that was new to Vashti. She'd already made several significant accidental errors since she'd penetrated interdimensional spacetime and materialised in the continuum in which the Anomaly's presence was most concentrated. Her primary error, of course, had been not to understand...
Chapter Two Venus - 3725 C.E. Although it had been quiet for several weeks now, Laurent still experienced some trepidation as he walked into the Emergency Rescue station. It had been quiet for too long. When would this spell of relative peace come to an end? The long history of unfortunate incidents in the South West section of Ishtar Terra suggested that t...
'I can't believe you've arranged to go out without me... You selfish bastard, you knew I took tonight off of work to spend some time with you!' Jenny screamed at Scott, her boyfriend, as he grabbed his jacket from the wall on his way towards the door. 'Yeah, I know babes, but Gary just called a couple of hours ago. All the guys are off into town to watch th...
In Which Alice is introduced to Innocence and Chastity, and discovers that of the two she prefers Innocence; her friends practise the thespian arts and learn the theatrical skills of Innocence; and, to her disappointment, she discovers her lover prefers the charms of Chastity. Alice wasn't so sure she liked the idea of being identified for her incestuous r...