Just a whimsical quickie for the few who appreciated my last oxymoronic non sequitur... (All fiction. Never knew anyone like these characters. All countries described are fictional. Surely you can't believe a constitutional republic called the United States of America ever existed. No one with flickering intelligence would bother imagining the extant 21st C...
Montauk, New YorkDawn, October 5th, 2018 "It's going to be fine, Finn. This is going to work. I love you." I kept my voice from quavering as I stared into Finn's eyes. His fear and love shone through and made it that much more difficult for me to maintain any semblance of calm. My heart was beating so hard that I became worried about a coronary. Wouldn't...
This continues the reprint of a story that I posted on this site in 2015. I was rereading it lately and correcting some of the typos (God...so many!) when it dawned on me that perhaps I should repost this story (corrected, of course, and in the original chapter format) for readers today. It's still relevant, well most of it is. I hope you enjoy it. Oh, as...
Cyrus has finally completed his solo North Island journey, filled with adventure and pleasure. Now begins the second part of his journey, where he will join Scott and the group in Christchurch, beginning his apprenticeship. Their agenda is to photograph every bit of the south island, penetrating into the most untouched and exotic parts. The journey starts in...
This story is submitted as part of the "One Night in XXX" story event—a collection of stories that all take place in a single night in a specific place. "You're going to kill us both, Zhang," I told the cabbie in his native Mandarin as he whipped across two lanes to pass a Maserati on Al Asayel Street. "You don't want to die all alone, do you?" Zhang asked...
Cast of Characters [Note: Spoiler Alert - this includes updates that may ruin some plot points] Life as a New Hire By Nut Ranch and FinalStand Impossible gratitude to Nut Ranch who not only made this list - he made it thrice. Only my ineptitude had kept the first two creations from the light. As always, the subject matter is my responsibility. If you li...
The Conclusion There remained one more bustle in her hedgerow, one more spring clean for the May Queen. The trip. This trip, our trip, the fabric of our lives ripped apart and rearranged, the storm ravaged journey that had carried Deb to my side once again -- after twenty two years. I wondered, could she still hear the wind blow? Did she know her stairway...
Barbara's tears fell on the white pillow case. After sobbing for several minutes, she reflected on what she had heard. She couldn't have imagined that comments regarding a photograph that had been taken twenty-years ago--nearly half a lifetime ago--could hurt so much. The photograph of Gordon and her displayed in the antique, sterling silver frame that s...
Authors Note: I wrote this story because I was sick of those 3000 word fuck tales that start of with a guy wanting to fuck and end up with him accomplishing that! In sheer rebellion to this growing trend, I wanted to write an erotic thriller with a complex plot and deep multi-dimensional characters – characters who feel, who think, who have political views...
*Editing magic performed by Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and neer-do-wells* *Can the scorpion ever stop being a scorpion?* {8:30 am, Monday, September 8th ~ Last day} [A ROOM FULL OF ASSISTANTS] Well ... there it was ... the office of the Executive Director to the President ... and not 'Executive Assistant' ... because this...