John was so deep in thought that he almost ran a traffic light on the way to work. Today he was to have a six-month evaluation meeting with his boss. Although he didn't think he had anything to worry about it still bothered him that he could go one of two ways after today. If his boss liked his work then he would be fixed for years to come. If he didn't he w...
I opened my eyes and looked at the clock on the stand beside me. 6:20, the glowing numbers informed me. Not bad. Almost enough sleep, and still time to- What was I thinking? There was no time for anything. The alarm should have gone off at six! I turned over to see Charles looking at me. "I'm sorry," I said. "I must have set the alarm wrong. It's twenty pas...
It was pretty late on a Friday night when my doorbell rang. I had not expected anyone and looked through the peephole to see who was there. I saw no one. I had assumed it was a kid, after all I was a jr. high teacher and my students had an unformed sense of humor. As I turned to walk away the doorbell rang again. I opened the door quickly so I could catch t...
Chapter 16 -The Rogue and the Paladin After Christie left her to go into Natalie's room, Rain once again started reading the novel she had found among the other books on the book shelf. She was enjoying the humorous story when she started hearing moans of the elf and drow having sex. "Fuck! You can't be serious?" The half elf said aloud to no one. She pu...
It was 8pm. Erica was sitting alone on a bench at the quiet suburban Fern Rock train station. She had just gotten off work and was waiting for the north-bound commuter train to take her towards home. This had been her routine for the past several weeks. In an effort to save money costs, her and her husband Robert had decided for her to use the train to get...
I knew it was time to end this whole thing and get out of the master control booth before anyone arrived to shut me down. If I hurried I could switch off the "live assist" mode and put the system back into the fully automated broadcast mode. Our local television audience had seen enough for one night. As soon as I had the system up and running normally I cou...
Hi everyone, Sorry for the long delay between chapters. Life... Thank you to all that have provided your feedback; I really appreciate it. I also would like to once again thank Todger for editing my work. For anyone that has not been reading this series, I suggest you read parts 1-3 first or this might not make much sense. Also, if you are not a fan of I...
Chapter 13 During operations he had been home twice. Other than to see his aunt, he had had no reason to go home since the day he had received the telephone call from Jane telling him she was sorry, but although she still loved him, she needed someone who wasn't likely to die tomorrow. She hadn't used those words, but that had been the sentiment. The first...
The idea from this story came from tapeworm, and it was heavily outlined by demos. I owe nearly everything here to them. -- Parker Marson spent every day after school in the basketball locker room. At Toriville High School, basketball was the most important sport. The games were always packed, the pep rallies were wild, and the basketball players were the...
This story is true even though I am not at all proud of what I did for Robert. He and I had been married for only 4 years when he changed jobs. He was very satisfied in his last position as a department manager for his firm. He knew there was just no hope of promotion within that firm because of two things - 1, The old boy network where the very best friends...