Chapter 35 -- Return, Recovery, and Reality Twelve of the Circle members boarded the Cessna Citation on the tarmac at the Circle Airport. They were Dave, Alice, and Pam; Dev, Sharon, and Wendy; Ty and Dori; Sean and Kat; and Owen and Julie. The group was the original eleven that had formed the Circle, plus Sharon who had married into Dev and Wendy's family....
"You agreed to do what?!!!" Maliha Rashid was spouting madly at her husband, the soon to be ex-VP of the national telecom company. "Oh come on, Patrick was crushed at not being able to participate in our Promotion Party due to unexpected visitors from China (as detailed in 'The Promotion Party', Parts 1-4), and then really blew a fuse at how much Joe, from...
Illustrated by Copperein The rain pelted down in cold sheets as the man leaned against a tree in a vain hope of finding shelter. Under his large coat there was movement and a small voice. "Are we there yet?" Said a young girl's voice. Across a small gap in the trees he watched as a small figure carrying a lantern, emerged from a cave in the mountainside....
Captain Jeffery Hawke had been a science-fiction lover from a young age. He attributed the start of his obsession to the day he discovered his grandfather's collection of old Tom Swift novels in a box in his parent's attic. The elegant but straightforward storytelling from that bygone era had been his gateway drug, and from there he had progressed to such le...
"I've got to hand it to you, Harvey," said the man sitting across from me. "I've seen you looking rough before, but never like this." The Starburst bar was about three quarters full at that hour, but then it usually was. Spaceports never close, which means that spaceport bars also work around whatever clock the locals use. No matter what the hour, the Starb...
Tali raised her head, unclasping her hands. The prayer now complete, she stood up, careful not to disturb the candles around her. Even with only the flickering light of flames to illuminate her room, her eyes still functioned near perfectly. A product of both her training, natural born ability, and her affinity for sorcery. Even on the darkest of nights, she...
USS Surefoot-A, Deck 3 Mid -- Sickbay Suite: Kitirik flushed a darker than usual green around his mottled skin and throat wattles as he sat on the biobed. "Well... this is certainly embarrassing." Standing in front of the cadet, passing a sensor wand over the Qarari's head, Doc Masterson grinned. "It can happen to any of us, pardner." But then he amended t...
INTRODUCTION Probably the least successful of all dude ranches in America has been Sarah McKenzie's Dude Ranch on Lake Knead Island in Kansas. It's had four initiated foreclosures on it in the past seven years and in the tradition of singer Loretta Lynn's dad, Sarah's dad who was a resident in a nursing home, always managed to find the money from somewhere...
Author's note: All characters participating in or witnessing sexual encounters are 18 of age or older. ***** Begin::WeirdTrack: While He Slept Ch. 1 - BadDay; Start(WeirdTrack_BadDay(Intro)); There once was a girl and god loved her. Put like that it all seems so simple. Every life is so small and boring. No life is ever different. They think themselves u...
Tate and Molly had smiles plastered across their faces that they couldn't have wiped off if they tried. They kept staring over at each other happily as their car cruised along the semi-busy desert highway, weaving in and out of rolling boulders and hills. The Bluetooth radio pumped a primer in relaxation. They'd earned it. Everyone had. The Coronavirus v...