The rain came down in soft sheets, millions of small droplets banded close enough together to make a beautiful, hypnotic rhythm on the awnings of the shops and apartment buildings on Clark street. The water rose halfway up on the curbs, covering most of the drains and threatening to rise onto the sidewalk. It had been coming down since 4AM and now, at 6:05AM...
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How could I have let this happen? My husband and I live in a mid-sized city in Minnesota. My husband is a section supervisor at the local retailer. He works the afternoon/evening shift and is seldom home before midnight. Earlier this year, to make ends meet we rented the room to Brad, an 18 year old hockey player with the local semi-pro team. Brad had nev...
Your name is John Doe and you were an ordinary human working at the National City Branch of Star Labs, until the day you discovered you weren't an ordinary human. Rather you were a Hybrid Species, born of an illicit affair between Aquaman a Powerful Atlantean and Meta-Human, and a Daxamite. You never knew or your heritage until that fateful day, the day when...
If I live, I will fight, wherever I must, as long as I must, until the enemy is defeated and the national stain washed clean. - General Charles de Gaulle * * * As Nicole stood looking out the full-length window of her Paris loft, she reflected on the changes the city had gone through over the past few years. It was the Spring of 1943, and life for Nicole...
It was yet another day for the villagers to go without water. So far the villagers had kept the foe at bay but another day without water would mean either that they would have to surrender or would be defeated. Woe had come to the land of these remote tribes when the king sent his sons on the mission to capture all the neighbouring lands and include them as...
It was a warm spring day. Pauline was enjoying her first free Saturday in a long time. At 36, she was a successful intellectual property lawyer. This meant long hours at the office, and little time to enjoy some of the financial perks that came with the job. Nonetheless, she enjoyed the intellectual challenge and was able to juggle work with regular visits t...
Introduction Up to now, all my stories have been fact-based from my earlier life. This is my first attempt at pure imagination. All characters (or websites) are fictional, any similarity to real persons, living or not, are purely co-incidental. ***** Gerry was bored. Bored with his job, bored with his succession of girlfriends, even bored with his compute...
Author's note: This is exploring what I think is a cool idea. It's mostly explored by tying as much of the rules and backstory as possible into sex, of which there is a lot. #### He was sitting at the same table, at the same café, for the third day in a row. He had a bland face that made him difficult to remember, but I reviewed all the players each day...
Mike shifted his weight, and moved to sit lightly on Charlotte's stomach. Still holding my face in his hands, he kissed me hard. And I allowed him. He moved one hand down my throat and chest, and hastily grabbed a breast out of the corset. But I wouldn't touch him yet. Instead, I gripped each of Charlotte's legs under the knee, and pushed them back over his...