Chapter 19 When Alexis entered their apartment she was surprised to find Demetri sitting naked in the living room, staring into the darkness. She sat to his right taking his hand in hers without speaking, leaning her head against his shoulder. Their closeness was all that mattered to them at the time. They had their own thoughts and feelings to resolve; as...
The rain had just stopped falling outside the tent as he tightened her bonds and blindfold. With her wrists tied above her head to the ceiling ridge pole and her ankles spread and tied to stakes driven into the ground, she could barely move. That thrice damned charm of weakening keeps her as weak as any human. This vampire hunter has her at his mercy as the...
This is my WINTER HOLIDAYS STORY CONTEST 2014 entry. Please vote. * I didn't always hate the holidays. There was a point in my life when I eagerly anticipated the season of giving and thankfulness, back when I had a family and a reason to be thankful. Now all this Holiday Cheer does is cause me more pain. I walk through the stores and see the decorations...
You are the lone pilot too the S.S. Strongarm, a lightspeed fast exploratory vessel meant for deep space expeditions and you hava very important mission. About a year ago, the First Galactic Power, or the FGP, recorded an unexplainable anomoly far beyond the mapped regions of space. They don't know what it is or why it's happening, but it seems to be emanati...
Ella kissed her husband Thomas on the cheek leaving a big red smudge from her lips stick. “Now don’t forget it’s our date night tonight. So please try and leave work on time,” she told him as she brought her thumb to his face and started to rub the scarlet wax off. “I will Honey,” he told her. Tom’s dark black police officer’s uniform was freshly pressed and...
Cora opened her eyes and squinted at the daylight. She had fallen asleep in the passenger seat of her mother's SUV. They had been driving for nearly three hours and were reaching their destination. Cora woke up just in time to drink in the beautiful countryside of Trimbridge, a small town in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. She had grown up running thro...
1. First Night of Adulthood Turning 18 was a greater joy for me than anything I'd ever experienced before. Even graduating from high school just 3 nights before was nothing compared to this. The day I had anxiously awaited for years was now here. I was legally an adult. I could vote, enter sweepstakes, buy lottery tickets, or do almost anything else. For dr...
It seems that a number of people around me have recently experienced personal tragedy, sometimes unexpectedly and sometimes in the form or a lingering illness. Their grief and sorrow got me thinking and reminded me of a story told to me by a good friend Tino, who is now a retired minister. ****************** A man and a woman had a child. He was the apple...
In the evening, while I wait for my lover to arrive, I take a shower. It's not that I'm uncomfortable with my own bodily smells. Rather, I practice a ritual of deepening nakedness that opens me to the nightfall that awaits, so that I can greet him, untouched and unadorned. First, I unzip my skirt. Unbutton my blouse. Shimmy out of my panties. Unhook my bra....
When I was 7, I decided I was going to marry a man with black hair and green eyes. His name would be Edward, and he would love me more than anyone else in the whole wide world. Now, a childhood and the first shaking steps of adulthood later, aged 18, I lay awake at four in the morning, feeling the warmth of your smooth ochre skin and silk thread hair, strea...