It was another blazing summer day. Triple digits for the fifth day in a row. Well, July and August are the hottest months of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere, so August 1 should be right at the peak of the heat. I had set up my chair on the front lawn, in the shade of a tall tree, and was lying back, sipping an ice-cold lemonade. I had a book with m...
Sister Persephone of the Order of No Mercy: A Special Session with Mistress Persephone Trembling like a schoolboy who forgot his homework, I rang the bell to Arena/Blaze. Although I was punctual and had the correct tokens for Mistress Persephone, I was still nervous that something wasn't right. I always want to please my mistress, so I pay attention to ever...
Sunday, after Persephone and Jocelyn had accomplished whatever weekend tasks that needed to be done, they went out to eat together, and went to the movies. In the darkened theater, they leaned against one another, and held hands. It was a wonderful evening. On the way back to Persephone's home, they agreed that Jocelyn would virtually 'move in' and stay over...
Jocelyn stirred under the warm, soft covers as she gradually came awake. She felt disoriented. The bed felt different, and the covers felt different. She brushed her blonde hair off her face and opened her eyes. In her muzzy state, she didn't even recognize the room. "Where am I?" was the groggy thought that drifted into her mind. She turned her head. She wa...
The mask was waiting for her when she got home. It was the only thing dangling from the coat hook, and the message was clear. Persephone stared at it, shivering in place. It couldn't have been there long. The rules were clear. If the mask was there for longer than fifteen minutes without her being in her proper place, there would be hell to pay. Persephone...
Demeter, goddess of the botanical world, lovingly referred to as "Mother Nature" by those that inhabited the Earth in the 21st century … caretaker and overseer of the tall corn fields and fruit-ripened trees, was a mother. True, that part of ancient Greek history might have bypassed many a reader and philosopher of the mythical world but it is, nonetheless,...
~o~ The next morning when Persephone awoke, she was surprised to find that she was at home in her own bed. A morning breeze blew in through the open window, fluttering the curtains and lending a slight chill to the room. Persephone stretched her arms up over head and threw off the heavy comforter. She swung her legs out and shuttered as she let her bare fe...
Persephone gently pushed Hades away and stepped back, his hands reluctantly sliding from her flesh. She turned and walked toward the gate behind her. Still on his knees, he stared enthralled at the coxinant twists of her retreating buttocks. His callipygian captor paused and looked back at him and gave one word. "Follow." Hades scrambled to his feet and was...
Prologue Persephone looked at her friends with the ouija board. She'd declined to join them, not because of some fear of the occult, but because it was nauseatingly cliché. Sarah began to chant a sumerian raising mantra whilst Zoe, Lorna and Felicity held on to the glass that would supposedly spell out the wishes, or otherwise, of the contacted demon. They...
It took several minutes for Kore to rise. He had left her there, had disappeared in the midst of speaking, leaving her bewildered. Her chiton was wrenched out of place and her back was damp from the floor of the grove. She stood, confused by his disappearance, and scanned the empty grove. Had he truly gone? Was he still somewhere nearby? What would make him...