"You are one - hundred percent correct, John - your father was Liberal - AND your grandfather was a Liberal, too!" he stated emphatically - as if it were something to be proud of. He reaffirmed what I already knew - that I was the only logical male in our families recent history. Mr. Jensvold took a bite out of his sandwich, chewed it slowly then swallowe...
Free speech does not mean the right to scream "Fire!' in a crowded movie theater. The matter has been decided in courts of law and in the court of public opinion. [It comes under the doctrine of reckless endangerment.] In both arenas, the backers of unlimited free speech have lost. Free speech does not mean the right to physically threaten someone. Again, t...
Prologue: This story is set in the year 2045. By 2020, gene editing, stem cell treatments, and many other next generation treatments have advanced sufficiently to be available in general medicine in rich countries. Due to ethical concerns of such medical technologies, specifically the fear that they would lead to the wealthiest families utilizing these ne...
This story is a work of fiction only. Any chance resemblance to actual people or events is purely accidental. * I was in Bagdad escorting a civilian computer expert with 3 others from my squad when this story begins. He was a Department of the Navy employee sent to Iraq to assist in setting up computer networks for the new Iraqi government and we were assi...
Chapter 2 - A Lovers' Quarrel After a couple more hours of studying, Dave ventured into his bedroom, finding Maddie sitting cross-legged on the bed. To his surprise, she had found the TV remote and had already figured out how to use it. She seemed enraptured, almost hypnotized by the images on the screen, which did not surprise Dave one bit, considering it...
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, to find my sweetie, Amina Alzahrani, either crying or tossing and turning. That's when I know for sure that she's dreaming of her old life in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. As liberated as my sweetie says she is, I can see in her eyes that Amina is still haunted by the country and people she left behind. Those nightmares...
We have many laws that I just don't understand in our country. And why do we have these laws? Because some "God" loving legislators want to protect us from ourselves; heck I bet there are some that would love to even shut this site down to make sure we don't pollute our minds with evil and impure thought. They have been doing it since law began. The funny th...
(Hey guys, it's FutaWriter here. The first page or so is going to be decent amount of history for this alternate timeline of mine. If that stuff bores you, I won't be angry, just skip past it. All you need to know is that there are futas, and they can do whatever they want pretty much. This is the beginning of what I hope to be a fully fleshed out universe,...
First story so please, send feedback! Also this chapter is slower, but it will get better later on! ~ I was already special when I was born. I didn't have any special abilities or skills or anything like that. Simply because I was born as a man. At the year 2080 there was the Event, the way we call it now. A mutant attacked our planet. A bacterium that cou...
Copyright Oggbashan November 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. +++ The following notice appeared today on the doors of every...