Antonia's office is wide and oval with built-in shelves with old books and ornaments. Where the shelves end in the far curved corner of the office is a cello, properly polished without a speck of dust. In the far curved wall is a wide desk made from glass, equipped with a holo-array and a computer with access to the galactic data-stream, decorated with a gla...
Wearing a Penguin suit on hot summers day was not my idea of bliss, how could any one contemplate getting married in the middle of summer, when the weather is always going to be scorching. The Principal of Julie's school had finally found someone who was willing to marry a sixty year old, I did not see what the thirty something English teacher saw in him, I...
It had been only a week since their sweaty encounter on the floor of the bank vault, but in Tesla's mind it felt like it had only happened moments ago. He could still feel her ghostly fingers against his throat whenever he closed his eyes, and inevitably afterwards a moan would slip from his lips. Embarrassingly, the last time that happened was during a meet...
I have been in love with physics since my first exposure to it, it is my religion, it is my life. I love believing that each and every interaction can, on some level, be explained by a mathematical formula, even if that formula needs a little bit of statistical uncertainty for lubrication. It was my second year of grad school, and, as much as I loved my sch...
When I was a young(er) man, I wanted to earn some extra cash by selling my sperm to a local sperm bank. I figured that the sperm of a blond, blue-eyed Viking would sell like hot cakes and find its way into countless wombs and eggs all over the world. I went a couple of times to make a deposit. My college campus was in the old town as was the sperm bank, so...
I can't say that the first time I knew what was happening was the first time it happened. It's possible something had happened when I wasn't home but I think that first time was pretty close to their first. I knew generally, from all the clues, that something had happened and I'd seen my wife go next door just as she said she was going to do. She was very n...
What the hell is that noise? I thought. I heard the racket coming from outside in my backyard. It sounded like someone had tripped over my lawn furniture in the dark. Retrieving the Mossburg 12 gauge shotgun from under my bed, I popped a couple shells in the chamber. Slowly and stealthily I crept out a first floor window on the side of the house. "What th...
Trash day was a week away. I had just finished carrying all the junk back into the garage, when I was surprised by the big door closing on its own. For a moment, I wondered if I had pressed the switch, but then I was surprised by two new customers. On of them was violet, the other nearly neon blue. They only had two eyes between them, but they were both sup...
Chapter 12: The Great Dane As Annie pushed me down the stairs, panic began to creep over me. Frankly, Annie was a woman that I barely knew. Other than a brief conversation over a year ago, I had never even talked to her before today. Today's conversation had consisted of Friane displaying me in front of Annie, dressed in Annie's used lingerie, and promising...
I awoke with a sense of purpose that I had been missing for several years. I knew I was good enough to manage the project and get everything Gina, Yoni and I wanted in Albai. We filled the entire day with hard work. Then the night with good sleep. I was relaxed and ready for Prince Tulan, at nine a.m. sharp. Yoni and Gina could each recite what I was going t...