Cristi sat on the edge of the bed, dabbing herself with a tissue. Brad had lasted a record two minutes, exactly 30 seconds longer than he had in their previous sessions. He lay on the other side with a game controller, playing online with his friends and swearing at the monitor. "Fuck you!" he said as he got taken out by a 12-year old Australian kid. He turn...
Sharing the Burden Part One Word Count: 6802 In all her years as an ethics professor, Macy had never seen a girl as stir crazy as Naomi. More professionally described, Naomi had obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but from Layman's perspective, she was a spiraling stress-nado without an off switch. Worst yet, this problem wasn't isolated by time. She was i...
This story follows after The Loft Game-Kermit if you'd like to get some idea of who the characters are and what the Loft Game is before starting this. —C ───────── I took it easier on Josh in my dorm room the second time. Yeah, he lost the coin flip a second week in a row. As we walked down the driveway after the game, he glanced over at the others leav...
This chapter is not meant to stand alone. Please begin at the first chapter to fully appreciate this tale. Friday, November 9 I was lying on my back with my arms stretched out to either side with a blond snuggled into my neck on the right and a warm redhead on my left. Carol had just begun to nibble on my ear lobe when Veronica's hand slowly began meanderi...
CHAPTER 1 Ralph de Clune stood waiting with his beautifully groomed wife Yvonne in the airport terminal looking at incoming passengers for Adele de Clune, sole survivor of her family Ralph's brother James and wife and their two other children were killed in a helicopter crash. Yvonne and Ralph had spent a day in London with Adele after the funeral but she...
I liked my new outfit. Maybe it was silly but I've been called "too serious" by more than one of my friends. So deciding to break out a bit, I went shopping and came back with a short pleated skirt, sneakers -- real retro Keds, not running shoes -- and a short, loose halter top. When I got home and put them on, even I had to admit I didn't look anything like...
Alyssa walked towards Rachel with open arms, but then paused as she looked down at her glistening black Phalanx armour. "Maybe this would be more inviting if I wasn't wearing power armour!" she said to the brunette with a smile. Rachel laughed and ran over to her, giving her a hug regardless. "I thought my time was up! I've never been so relieved to see...
CHAPTER 1: A Trance Encounter Kate scribbled through her paperwork like she was trying to fail a test. She anxiously tapped her foot on the hardwood floor and flipped through page after page, jotting down all of the required of initials. Claire admired Kate's headshot on her driver's license. Her full name was Katherine Ann Thompson and she was a petite bl...
John and his crew of beautiful young women were up on the bridge of the Invictus. They had watched quietly as Alyssa had taken off from the docking bay, and then skilfully guided the huge spacecraft through the canyons underneath the vast shipyard, until finally she had them soaring away into the upper atmosphere of Ashana. "I got kind of used to having Ash...
The culmination of Alyssa's journey. Part Six: The Price of Passion Gary was dead, and I had met the man who had killed him. Trying to return to a normal life after that, I felt, was nearly impossible. I withdrew from the semester, and even though it was too late to get any tuition back, I didn't care. I could easily pay my father back, although he would...