A long way home 8 Naina visits the reformatory From a scenario from Dalhia 57 Naina, her sister and their twin boyfriends left for the train station in separate taxis. They had booked second class seats together but they wanted to pretend they didn't know the two girls. The compartment held eight seats and both men were on the window side while their girlf...
Chapter Six: All Hands on Valarie Heeding the Coast Guard's warning, Travers had the boat headed toward the nearest dock, which they found at a small seaside village. They radioed their position to Jay, who called Dr. Pound. "He'll be there in about an hour," Jay said. Valarie tried not to look worried, but she was. She had seen Pound with his freakishly...
Chapter 1 I don't know why I'm here. My parents were supposed to be taking me to college but somehow I ended up in this white room, naked. I think somebody drugged me because I'm dizzy--so dizzy--and I feel like I need to throw up. Where am I? The door opened and two men and a woman walked in wearing white lab coats. I cowered in the corner, trying to shri...
Fearing for Katnissa's life, Aablar has been talked into giving himself up to the pursuing Amazon by a strange apparition. He has fallen into the hands of the ruthless Elizabetha Warren and her elite team of dominesses. Even as the Amazon rejoice, Katnissa finds herself unable to join in the celebrations wholeheartedly. In the meantime, Princess Fiona uses t...
"Alright, I'm in. Looks like he's reading that manifest. I'll take him out, get the manifest and then leave." whispered Sonya to Johnny as she slowly crept along the wall in Kano's chamber. "No! We still need him as someone who we can use against Outworld." "Not happening babe, he's going down." replied Sonya and turned off all comms. Meanwhile, Kano was...
It's been a long night. After weeks of mismatched scheduling and general laziness, Harry and the gang finally found the time to get together, drink themselves to inebriated stupor, and sing themselves hoarse on the karaoke. University days are through. No more mindless droning inside the lab waiting for decoctions to drip out of the Soxhlet extractor. No m...
* An immediate and unexpected inspiration hit me when I read the announcement for the 2020 750 word project, a challenge to write a story in exactly 750 words (according to Libreoffice Writer, and the two separators are not counted). Unable to resist, I began writing at once with a song that fit the mood and actually had some room to spare. Splitting the tw...
Part 4 Milka brought his cappuccino across the next day, setting it down she clutched at her stomach. "Oh! No fucks today. I hurts. Time of month, you knows." Chris nodded sympathetically. He had been expecting that to turn up. "Gives Toma a rest, no!" Milka's laugh a delight to hear. "And you. Oh, Chris look sad!" Still the cappuccino was in prospect. T...
I have agreed, and you have written the prescription. You are an anesthesiologist, and everything you do is with operating room precision. Were I your patient, I would lay back under a sterile drape, open my arm as if it were a book waiting to be read, and allow you to inject a sleeping potion in my vein. Open my throat so you could insert a tube through whi...
The green corduroy jacket hung in the wardrobe in Sal's bedroom nestled between her own clothes. It was a strange intimacy with a piece of male clothing from a man she really did not know at all well. One thing if it belonged to a boyfriend or a lover, a husband even, but quite another for just a neighbour. Perhaps she should have hung it in one of the spare...