The message light was blinking on my answering machine when I returned mid-morning from the gym. "Hey Larry, this is Nancy. I need a favor. A girlfriend and I have booked a cruise that leaves in four weeks and I have a situation that just came up and now I can't go. She would like to do the cruise and I don't want to have to cancel. I told Joyce about you,...
Art, part two. Ch. 07 Dr. Heidi shows Art how he can be one of her dolls. The room Heidi led me into was in the front of the house and included an elevator to the garage level. Where the first room is a table top workshop, here the equipment is larger and floor mounted. There's even a small jib hoist above the work table. Heidi said, "I've had some inquiri...
To my dear readers: this episode includes the Maori Haka dance. No text description can do it justice. I recommend you google the term if you don't already know what the maori Haka Dance looks like. ***** Friday, the big day. The dive shop was spotless, shelves full of gear were arranged tantalizingly. Air tanks were lined up, heavy with compressed air. Th...
Bindi peeled off her wetsuit in the change room of the scuba shop and hopped into a toasty warm shower. The wood-panelled walls of the tiny change room became steamy very quickly. Had Jason noticed her checking him out during the dive expedition? Bindi's tummy turned flips. Jason was a honey. Early twenties, bright blue eyes, a solid tan, curly brown hair, c...
With one long tentacle wrapped around my waist, it flipped me onto my stomach and lifted my body so that I was on my hands and knees . . . so began the most terrifying experience of my life. ***** The weekend started like any other. Jack and I were Marine Biologists working at the Las Campas Marine Research Institute, and after a particularly stressful we...
I was stretched out beside the pool because the sun had already left the beach. The pool area was still bright and sunny. The resort was up a slope, and the pool area was a terrace that looks down onto the ocean. The lounge chairs were comfortable and the sun had made my body warm. The Jamaican vacation was starting out lovely. I had gone away seeking a week...
Hey Minxy, I got your letter the other day and you know it feels good to get actual letters. Pieces of paper that arrive in your mail box (well at my office the mail man drops it off on your desk, its fucking boss) but actual pieces of paper not emails, not IMs and not phone calls. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with an email or an IM and I can't...
As with so many stories with chapters, please read the previous chapters to understand this and subsequent sections. This story has four chapters; all chapters will post here within a few days of each other. Thanks to my editor. Enjoy. Please vote. * The next morning at the Austin office was an ordeal. I was exhausted from getting so little sleep the night...
It was the Spring Break of my senior year of high school. I was 18 years of age and having the time of my life. Cancun seems to be a modern-day Mecca for beautiful women and alcohol providers. I was staying at the cost-efficient Marivel Grande on the strip in Cancun. My room wasn't much to write home about, but the view was most excellent. The hotel is mad...
Call me a spoil sport, but after I'd turned twelve I never cared much for Halloween. I'd had my share of dressing up in those ridiculous costumes and performing trick or treat stunts, so when Kyle asked if I'd like to come to his Halloween bash, I automatically said no. That's not to say that I didn't feel honored at having been invited. Kyle and his best pa...