Book 1, Chapter 11 -- Little Wing (Noveria) ***** The Mako I was driving took the lead, Garrus at the turret of the cannon, Tali looking after shields and engineering, Wrex simply a passenger for now. Alenko was following in our wheel tracks, Garrus turning the turret of the cannon every couple of minutes to check on him. The weather was awful. Practicall...
She had finally found him, Katherine looked up at the towering building from the pavement. The ache in her muscles forgotten, the pull was the strongest in front of this building. She looked at her watch, if she didn't get moving she would be late for the meeting. She stepped up the stairs to the large glass doors that slid open to admit her inside. As soon...
The world was splintered into sects and factions. The Daemon and the Vampires held a steady truce built on necessity, and of admiration. Both species were ruthless killers, powerful and dark . . . most importantly, dangerous. What humans that remained either had one of two lives. Either they served as cattle for the Vampire, or they lived under the watchfu...
Note: This story is the seventh episode in a short series entitled "Louis Makes a Decision". If you have not read the previous six episodes of this series, I encourage you do so before beginning this chapter. This is a dominant wife humiliates submissive husband story. That is the kind of story I write. If you do not enjoy these types of stories I strongly...
With perfect penmanship her back to the students Professor Duncan wrote in script on the clean blackboard. 'Balzac: Behind every great fortune lies a crime'. Lisbeth vigorously underlined the word 'crime'. "In this case the crime is the terrible lie that women are and have been so often treated throughout the world as 2nd class citizens...Do I have to go...
She wakes. The first sensation she notices is the hard steel arm chair beneath her. Next, she feels the roughness of the rope binding her ankles and wrists to the metal, and the sheer silk and lace lingerie draped across her form. Where are her clothes? Her mind is racing, trying to place where exactly she is. The last thing she remembers is the click of he...
Four weeks left in this hell hole, I thought, as I headed to my tent and a sorely needed shower. I had no doubt that these last weeks would feel as long as the 21 weeks that preceded them. I had been a happy civilian until July 1990 when it was realized that there would be no diplomatic solution to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The letter that was delivered t...
The next of my experiences in the village occurred when a notable young wild child appeared. She had come to the village to purge herself and to escape the nightclub lifestyle for a while. A few days after she arrived she approached me and asked me why I was there. "I don't know who you are," she said to me, "but I can tell that you are not a native. I was...
LIIIHope and GloryLord Newbury2078 The whole thing had been a bloody fiasco. In fact, it had been a disaster from beginning to end. Instead of rallying the whole nation to the defence of the beleaguered nobility, the actions that Lord Newbury had foolishly allowed himself to be associated with had rather hastened its decline. On this very day, one and a ha...
Raion awoke gently. The smell of cherry blossom invaded His senses and the texture of fine silken hair was upon His throat. He lay still, eyes still closed as soft hands untied the haorihimo fastening His juban and drew the panels aside. He felt the still chill air brush across His body begging Him to tense but He remained motionless. Gently her hand caresse...