III The radiant glow of a lightening bolt striking near by, brightens the room long enough for Clem, Jake and Virgil to see a huge man standing in the doorway of the bedroom. Jake points his flashlight at the door and shouts, "Who the hell are you?" "The last son-of-a-bitch you wanna fuck with, so I suggest you and your swamp rats get out now while you s...
Chapter Twenty One Intrepid - 3755 C.E. It had been a long time since Captain Kerensky last had to squeeze into a space suit. It wasn't really what a captain of a space ship, especially one as large as the Intrepid, was ever expected to do. Why would a captain ever need to go anywhere that wasn't climate-controlled? The last time Nadezhda had put on a spac...
He looked up a bit, blushing at the officer at his window. He knew he had been speeding and he knew that this time he was going to be in serious trouble since it was his third stop this week. He was surprised to see a new officer at the window, a beautiful buxom blonde. He stammered slightly as he spoke, "Good morning, officer." The officer glared at him, "...
Mary Nasi was a high-powered executive in a top marketing firm. She was in the top of her game until Michael Brown joined the company and basically stole her job. He got accepted into the boy's club and several months later Mary was out the door. They gave her a nice severance package and was sent on her way. Now Mary, had always had a nanny who cared for...
The next day Tim discovered that Carol Ann wasn't the only hot woman in the apartment complex where he lived. In mid-afternoon he came out of his apartment and headed downstairs, on his way to work, when he saw an attractive woman in a nurse's uniform emerging from an apartment on the ground floor, near the stairs. The nurse was short and attractive and had...
Day Forty Rose was right: in the cold light of morning I was not so fatalistic. The effects of the cream had worn off, and I yelped when I tried to pull up my clean knickers, but Rose refused to rub on a second application. "They might notice when they inspect you," she said: "besides, it's only a small tube, and you're going to need it tomorrow." "Don't...
My whole existence is flawed / You get me closer to God. Nine Inch Nails To whet my appetite for dinner, I decided to go on a walk. Blue-gray clouds roiled overhead and I thought about taking an umbrella, but Dallas Raines, the argent-haired spray-tanned flamboyance of a weatherman, forecasted the rain to start around ten or eleven that evening, so I had...
The Schmidt family shivered at the terrifying orders, shouting and screaming echoing down Oranienburger Strasse. Once or twice a pistol went off. The Jewish quarter was alive with fear, the Star of David daubed on doors, the painted swastikas, street by street, every night for days. Now it was their turn, the rap on the door speaking volumes of doom. "We ha...
Author's note: This story takes place is the same universe as "Riverside Police Department" (which is also Big Changes in Riverside) and "Big Changes in Riverside High." It takes place mostly after the first story. Please read "Riverside Police Department" first (and Big Changes in Riverside High) so you will understand the mind control devices at work, and...
Jeanne drove her Prius through the boringly familiar reaches she traveled every day on her way to work, dropping off her husband, or bringing Cody and Callie to school. The town of Middlesex was typically unremarkable suburban sprawl, so sleepy it could be described as rural. Jeanne was a honey-colored beauty who wore her lush golden brown hair braided with...