In the eighties, in Russia, there was no honeymoon trips for "Just married" couples. Or at least, they were just starting to become usual. "Svàdebnoe puteshèvstvie", this was he Russian term. My man would have liked to go home with me for a while, to Florence, but he could not leave his work place for a long period, and not even I could get a passport and a...
If you wish to, feel fee to go straight down (sic) to the proverbial good parts. Back in school ("in the day") it was the Henry Miller pages with the turned down corners. Here, it is indicated by an underlined Episode Title. If you are interested in how these real life adventures came to be, please read this short preface. While it is unlikely to get you te...
This provides a background for the story skip ahead if you like although I recommend at least reading from paragraph 3 so the story make more sense and you know what the character looks like. ***** The class 4 starship called Galaxius began its long journey from earth as the third exploration shuttle ever departed to visit planets beyond earth. When the wo...
It didn't take long to untangle ourselves from each other and I was surprised to find the food still warm when we all sat down to eat a few short minutes later. Somehow it felt like hours since the delivery man had handed over our food. I realized once the tension dissipated that I was starving. I dished up huge helping of lo mein, fried rice, chicken egg fo...
Arnold Bond has always been referred to as a geek, dweeb or nerd, and humiliated by his high school peers. It was partly because he looked the part of a geek with two left feet. And he never stood up for himself. Some of the pranks ranged from shoving him in his gym locker to sending his boxers up the flag pole. He thought his life would change in college bu...
When Zainab Dudayev moved to the City of Miami, Florida, from her hometown of Gudermes, Nation of Chechnya, she definitely expected a culture clash. After all, she was moving to a completely different country, one whose cultures and ways contrasted sharply with her own. The young woman braced herself for these changes, but wasn't one hundred percent sure wha...
Moscow – Winter 1564 The man who would become known as Ivan the Terrible didn't have what anyone would call a charmed childhood. His father died when Ivan was the tender age of three, leaving the young child the Grand Prince of Moscow. His mother, who had done her best to protect him against the boyars who sought to use the Grand Prince for their own purpos...
It was strange for me, with my almost military education (and my bad experience), to find myself in an unfamiliar bed, naked with a naked man, and happy of it. Yes, I knew that man would have married me (we had already started to run the paperwork for it), he loved me, he wanted to live his life with me and to die the same day, as we say in Russia. But it wa...
Planetary Solar Power Plant, Nevada Dessert Davis ran for his life. He was stuck in the middle of the desert, but any place was better than staying here. A cling on the metal grate behind him causes his heart to beat even harder. I'm not going to make it. His mind screams for his legs to run faster. He'd never seen anything like it, except in maybe in the...
The morning after... I woke up in the same position, head on his belly and all the rest. It had to have been a very quiet night, no nightmares. Yes, I winced a bit seeing... that part of my man. And recalling all the story... But then I relaxed. Confessed, forgiven, overcome. And all that remained was a taste of arbutus bitter honey in my mouth. But I knew,...