This is a true story. It took place about five years ago, a few months after my divorce. It saved my life. I'd been married for nearly thirty years to a woman I'd known since I was in high school. Our marriage had been fairly good but with some natural ups and downs. But I don't want to get into that. Suffice to say, when I come home from work one day and s...
Last fight for humanity. That's what it's come down to. There are six thousand human beings left in the cosmos. All of us are on this spaceship, the Maverick. We're quite a blend. African-Americans. Caucasians. Asians. Middle-Easterners. Latinos. Jews. Atheists. Agnostics. Gays. Lesbians. All of us huddled together on a city-sized spaceship constructed right...
It has been a year into my transition, a year since I first went to charing cross hospital, nervously knowing that my entire life revolved around this and more appointment. Twelve months since I saw the first consultant and was being eaten alive by nerves, wondering exactly how do you show someone that you were born in the wrong body and gender. Its been 3...
It is the heat of summer, one of those days when all things seemed extra sultry and bleak. I climb aboard a bus headed south. It is a nondescript bus with an even more un-determined path. Eyes peer out of sweat coated faces as the air conditioner gasps above the slender rows. Two petite girls with their bug eyes and cherry faces exit with their mother just a...
The room was dimly lit, candlelight dancing off the stone walls casting long shadows over the stands and small arena floor. The room wasn't so big; maybe the size of the average family room. Three rows of oak benches rose from the arena, encircling it so all could see. The cage that occupied the small arena was made of glass. Bars hued a pale blue and the...
'Jason, Amanda would like to see you now.' Jason's stomach knotted up and he swallowed dryly. He had expected the summons, but the shock still scared him. 'I'm sorry Jason.' 'Its Ok Sue,' Said Jason with feigned optimism, 'I'm sure it will be fine.' Jason knew it was not fine. Whatever Amanda wanted, it definitely would not be fine. Jason had got the job...
The room was amazingly bright considering it was lit only by the many candles placed all around the room, on walls, tables and the fire that crackled in the open fireplace. Nice and warm inside, contrary to the brisk cold of the winter that blew outside. No one would have thought there would have been a storm this night given it was the middle of April. The...
I had been active of the net for a long while. I had hundreds of cyber buddies. I had kinky ladies that I chatted to about outrageous things. I even had a cult following on the forum. I was even respected. Yet I was so afraid! Against all my better judgment, I had agreed to meet one of my cyber mates! We had been chatting for over four years. I backtracked,...
The average adult male thinks about sex thirty-two times in the space of a minute. Thirty-two separate engagements of separate thoughts, thirty-two distinct declarations of "I wish . . .", "I'd like to . . ." and the very frequent stream-of-consciousness interruption of a simple "Damn!" Long, low mental whistles and cerebral catcalls that never make it past...
Our next door neighbors were having an "adults only" birthday party and invited us, our close neighbors, people from their church, and other friends to attend. For the first few hours of the party we were catching up with our neighbors that we barely saw all winter and met a few new people and overall it was turning out to be a really good time. We were hang...