Chapter 1 - Robert's Apartment Chicago attorney Robert Johnson sat down at his office desk at 8:00 as usual. Behind him was a plate glass window that overlooked Lake Michigan, but he was in no mood to enjoy the view. Today is December 10, he reflected, exactly six months since Amy, the daughter of his law partner and friend John Debbs, had disappeared. It h...
Only Marcella and Richard know PLATO's true powers, but the outside world is rapidly closing in. Others have found out about the PLATO project and are trying to steal PLATO... or at least enough of him to grow their own neural network computer. This story stands-- more or less-- on its own but might make more sense if you have read the previous chapters. P...
I awaken to the gradually brightening walls of the cabin. Confused and blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I lever myself up to sit on the edge of the bunk. It always takes a few moments to orient when I wake up in a strange bed, but I come to myself pretty quickly this time. I'm here! Today's the day! Giddy, I check the station net while I shrug out of the d...
Author's Note: This is a follow up to The Young Master series. You can start here if you aren't interested in Belle's misadventures as spoiled young man turned out by his own sissy slave and eventually enslaved by his step-father, but it does introduce a lot of characters you'll read about in this series. * I don't know how long I was under...days, weeks....
Author's note: Here we go again with a short romance of roughly 15k words. Have fun and please don't forget to vote or even make my day with a comment, be it positive or critical but please be polite. My thanks go to my editors. Stattion for his help to make the storyline consistent and fluent and Joffa for his spelling, grammar and punctuation expertise....
It was 1985; the end of the "bareback era". Sex was good and condoms were only for birth control. Couldn't do any of this now. Don't even try it. But have fun thinking about it. ** Brian came to visit at the end of final exams. He arrived on a Friday morning and I was bagged from studying all night. I had an exam at one in the afternoon. He buzzed into my...
Becca decided that she wanted to start working with a councillor to deal with her dad being released from prison. She used the counselling service provided by our school. Even though we were almost on the opposite side of the world and there was practically no way he could get to her she felt there were unresolved emotions and feelings that needed to be deal...
After the harsh words in the kitchen, I was very quiet on the drive to meet DR at the mine, having been put firmly in my place. Kim sensed that something was out of kilter, but Susan kept the conversation going and drew Clara in with frequent questions. DR's truck was by the side of the road when we arrived and I walked over to say hello. "Morning. You want...
It had been a long day for Sheila. This was her 3rd night on this trip and she was exhausted. All she wanted was a drink, a soak in the Whirlpool in her room, and then to go to bed. Her clients had been brutal today, they brought her in to help them get several things done and promptly put obstacles up at every turn. She was getting aggravated just thinking...
This story is fiction. Fantasy. Not real. All characters are over 18 ***** Mr. Black made casual inquiries around the school, trying to find participants for his next experiment. He made note of who seemed interested in the subject of natural instinct, with emphasis on who he thought would be able to handle the sometimes intense experiences. How the partic...