This episode is Part 2 of 2. In Part 1, an elaborate foundation has been laid for the events in these chapters. Please read that part (published yesterday) before proceeding. Enjoy. Chapter 8 Fever "Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, ... so are men consumed by the flames o...
I was 36 when I started grad school. I was older because I had spent a lot of years in the military and also on starting a family. I got into a pretty good school and four years later I was writing my thesis. My area of concentration was U.S. History and in particular 19th century reform movements. This meant I spent a lot of time in the school archives as w...
The wedding itself was small and intimate, just immediate family and a few mutual college friends who lived within easy driving distance, held in the gazebo of the main park at the center of town with its small scenic lake providing a beautiful backdrop. Yet I was not focused upon the beauty of Nature or the aesthetics of the wedding. I was focused instead...
"I can't believe I'm doing this." Allison said with a confused look as her top fell to the floor. As her dainty fingers wrapped around her back, she looked on in disbelief at the already naked form of her coworker, Danielle. "What's wrong?" Danielle said with a concerned frown. "Don't you want me?" She stepped out of her easily discarded dress and sauntere...
"Alicia!" I hear him cry, through the darkness of the trailer park. Looking out my window I see him, Tony Keller, he's drunk or high- probably both. I sigh as I left my bed. Even in his inebriated state, it wouldn't take him long to find my door. "Open up you fucking whore!" he's kicking the door, which would be a problem in itself, with Tony being a wel...
He left her in the cage, he knew that with the girl's current stress and all that they had just gone through would be enough to coax the change from her. He returned to his office and checked the monitors, and made sure each was recording and well focused. He sat back in his chair and propped his feet up. Watching the girl pacing on the screen, even in huma...
Chapter 6 -- The Assassin's Apprentice "In the Forgotten Lands, children who make it past their fifth year are trained in the use of nets and bola, by the tenth year the child starts to learn the trade that will serve the family and their tribe best. Always in that order, because tribes have to be flexible to reform in the event of a schism, sudden land ch...
Prologue: In all the long history of life there has been struggle, always fighting for energy and resources against the entropic nature of the universe. The very first lifeforms on the planet Earth had to contend with a very young, very hot planet that cared nothing for their survival. For every cell death was inevitable, save the ability of these cells to r...
I was nearly done fixing my neighbor's broken dryer, sweaty as could be, as it was already unseasonably warm for an afternoon in April, Saturday to be precise, when the door to the laundry room opened behind me. I wrapped up the last of the repairs before standing up to face whoever it was, thinking that it was Daisy Eisenstein, the sultry soccer mom who had...
"It still makes my bottom tingle when I hear the clip-clop of a woman wearing boots," he said. The interviewer listened attentively. "Take all your clothes off," she instructed. She smiled to herself when he immediately stood up to remove his clothes. She knew that most guys have no reservations about undressing for a female they find attractive, and more...