The old samurai had been traveling north for so long he'd lost track of the days. A lifetime of loyal service had ended with the old Emperor's death and now he was free to do as he chose. Lacking any commitments or connections he had chosen solitude and a half-formed desire to find something lost long ago. As he rode his mind wandered, reaching back to the d...
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HOSPITAL He was hauled, quite naked, out of the police wagon by the two Female Safety Policewomen who had escorted him from the magistrates court. A leash was placed round his balls and a as one of the two policewoman both in regulation uniform of thigh length fishnet stockings high heeled leather boots and peaked cap placed a loop round his balls and dragg...
For college students, the mid-seventies proved to be a confusing and difficult time as suddenly, after watching the flower children and student activists so successfully protest the war in Viet Nam and seemingly change the world, when the time came to grab the torch and continue the revolution there suddenly was no real issue to gather and protest. America's...
As much as I loved being a teacher, I was burned out and tired of the low salaries and policies of seniority. I was in my early thirties and had spent the past year helping my friend's business get off the ground. One Saturday I decided to go to the mall to get some new work shirts and was disappointed to see one of my old students squatting near the mall do...
It was never taken under consideration that building a large university in the middle of nowhere in the northeast United States might prove a bit stressful come winter time. What was considered was the large amount of undeveloped land on which the school could, it hoped, expand for future generations. As time went on, this proved to be true and the school, w...
-PROLOGUE- A court of six waited for the moment that the night was the blackest. Then they began. Beneath a dome of brambles they summoned their prisoner from the sapling that grew between them. They drew forth his soul from the roots of the child-tree so that they could bind his physical form to its trunk. "Laird Marvon of the Brambleprick Grove-" began...
Central City's downtown, like so many others, had seen better days. While moderately successful, it thrived only during the light of day. After sunset, perhaps even as early as four o'clock in some neighborhoods, it was a very different sort of place. The kind of environment where no deliveries were made, few cabs stopped, and even the police tended to be he...
Why do I always yield to impulse? I don't know. Maybe a shrink could tell me. But I don't have the money or time to invest in such things. So I suck it up and move on. I've had to endure all kinds of hell in my life. My father Lenny Braxos Sr. was a mean-spirited womanizing medicine man and my mother Chelsea Johnson Braxos was a man-hating brute who battered...
"I swear to you, I don't usually do things like this." The compulsion to defend my honor drops the words off my tongue right as I'm noticing their incongruence; this is how I know I'm out of it, and part of me goes cold and clenches, bracing for impact. "Things like what?" she asks, laughing behind the words as she drops her purse onto something solid in th...