Julia awoke as the rays of a warm spring sun cast upon her face. She lay there and allowed the warmth of the light ease her from her peaceful slumber. As she returned to her body, she realized she was in her husband's arms. Engulfed by her masculine form, Julia cuddled back into him, feeling safe and secure with him as her protector. As she did, she brushed...
PROLOGUE Somewhere in the empire, Lucia Holconia Polla had a dream. In her dream, she watched her home city of Pompeii crumble delicately into a fine powdery dust. A wind swept around her, a wind that moaned and sounded like both pleasure and pain, and blew the dust away. Lucia felt both happy and sad Pompeii was gone. Happy because she knew it was gone...
The Human Animal Council had been structured during a period in history when the infant mortality rate escalated alarmingly, creating substantial social decay and presenting a serious threat to the long term economic stability of an ever expanding empire. Land transportation practices within imperial borders along the cross border trade routes were achieving...
Pornographer: a description we should use with pride At school and in encyclopaedias we learn of the animal images and hunting scenes our ancestors portrayed on their cave walls. There are other human images - the so called Venus's, females whose swollen torsos appear to suggest pregnancy, these are thought to be Fertility images. In Tannahill's "A Histor...
You died. But that was not the end. You ended up in white space, with a window explaining your situation. Apparently you ended up in some kind of RTS/RPG game. From here you can define your 'next great adventure'. You can choose your avatar – it's gender, looks, race, traits, skill tree, etc. of course as starting hero you will receive only basic equipment...
What would you do if you could live forever? For me, it's a question I fear to ask myself. I'm not sure I would like the answer. My name is Kalibar Barok and I was born in what is today called Tunisia, in Africa. The land in which I was born was once called the Carthaginian Empire. I was born in the summer of 650 B.C. Long before the fall of heroic Carthage...
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," or so wrote the illustrious Rudyard Kipling in his 'Ballad of East and West.' With all due respect to Kipling, however, the two have indeed met, and have been dancing a complicated exchange of goods, ideas and even people for many centuries now. And this cultural exchange applies to almost all...
Dawn rose, and as usual, Aton rose with it. After thousands of years he had the gist of his unusual existence. He looked around, unsure where he was for a moment. Slowly, painfully, he remembered. He was in a vast field, not far from the Moody Drive area of Kanata, Ontario. Nothing but farms in the area, though they were slowly being replaced by high-priced...
Patron saint of love and lovers. The patron saint of love, lovers, and happy marriages has a change of heart. Did you ever stop and wonder why we have a Saint Valentine's Day? Did you ever wonder who Saint Valentine was and what he did to earn such a saintly perch in the Catholic religion? By the way, no other holiday, not even Christmas, is celebrated as...
(Just wanna say before the story begins this is a working progress and will take time to form a proper story please be patient more will come and also thanks for reading :) "All Rise for before His Imperial highness Kaiser Sigismund the I of the Holy Roman empire, King of, Germany, Bohemia, Italy, Hungary Croatia and King of the Romans" the Herald...