This actually happened. I wasn't there at the time, but it was told to me. Names changed, of course. * * * Sophie's background is quite interesting, or at least I think so. And - relevant to this story - her friends were interesting too. Sophie has had these two friends forever, Lisa and Jeanie. They seem to have always dressed provocatively, used to w...
Evangelists? I had been visiting people in the neighbourhood with a junior member of the church community I was committed to working with. We always worked in pairs, which had the advantage of mutual support for one another, and usually one could learn from the other more experienced campaigner. I was about 18 months into a two-year contract, which includ...
My father passed away when I was six leaving mom and I devastated. She worked and we got by spending most of our time together. It wasn't until after my father had been gone for almost five years that she started dating and showing up with a nice gentleman named Ken that was a major client of the law firm she worked for. She dated Ken for almost a year when...
My brother and I have always resented the term "halflings". We're proportioned just as we should be, and it doesn't make us any less than ordinary humans. We didn't hear the term too often growing up, in a small community of our own kind. We've had to get used to the term though, since we've been on our quest. I was awoken by my brother Matin's hand on my...
The pounding Jamaican sun loomed over James Bond, just obstructed enough by the shade of the palm tree under which he rested to give him a moment's reprieve, his sweaty, tanned frame resting against the torso of his lover Charlotte. James was fond of women of all kinds and shapes, as they were equally fond of him, and yet Charlotte struck a special chord in...
Dr Jessica Walton floated into the conference room like a fragrance to join Moriarty and the three nurses around the table. A petite woman in her late thirties, she dressed like a senior executive, exuding an air of calm corporate efficiency. "Good morning ladies," she chirped, gliding into her seat. "I thought I should introduce myself before my first ses...
This happened in Sharjah. Those of you who stay or have stayed in Sharjah know about the little slips of paper which are inserted through the front door of your apartment with the mobile numbers of housemaids written on them. One Saturday morning, I decided to try one of those numbers. A young female voice answered the call. She asked for my address and I...
A Strange Friend A girl was sitting at the bench outside the Bus Stop. She was brown skinned, about six feet tall, and had long velvety black hair. She was waiting for her friend to show up so she could leave these humans before her inner demon decided he wanted to eat. Her name is Shekena-Volukar-Tinetsur, but the human friend she had made, Laura, calls h...
Bunky and Skip, two waiters at the Golden Spoon, Buttermilk Fall's Cajun restaurant, stared at the couple. "He's kind of geeky, Four Eyes there, to be with a chick who looks like that," Bunky said, but Skip had noticed the Adam's apple on the "chick" and wasn't surprised...she was hot, but it was still disgusting! Ellis McKeigue shook his head as his fri...
August 1895 Miss Poynton glared at 23 year old Cornelius Froding Hewel IV."Your Latin translation appalled me." The Governess bent her rattan cane. "Do you just spend all your time drawing Red Indians in your copybooks? Do you ever do any work at all?" She paused. "Why should I cane you? You're a grown man, and a father of three children. You appall me." T...