Thanks for everyone's patience! As always, all characters are over 18. ***** Day 8 continued. I wolfed down the food provided (a perfectly cooked steak) and waited around in the hotel suite, wondering what would happen. What did Big Brother mean by 'roommates'? I thought over the bizarreness of the past few weeks. I'd entered a reality TV show, calle...
AN: This is a side story to "Single Combat". Please read "Single Combat" first if you haven't already. * Serena, High Priestess of the Goddess, knelt in prayer to Mother Earth. "Oh great Goddess, from whose womb the world is born, shelter and protect your chosen people, the Amazons. A great evil has come to the southern jungles: men, who seek dominance ov...
I'm a married man, and for the first 12 years of that marriage, my wife and I had what you might call a pretty unremarkable sex life. I don't mean to denigrate it. We had sex reasonably often and we both enjoyed it, but we never really did anything surprising or noteworthy, anything that would be worth writing a story about. We were just a typical suburban c...
This story is another based on the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. If you haven't played the game, there are minor spoilers. If you've read 'Time Heals Wounds', I would consider this a prequel companion piece to that. Usual disclaimer. All characters etc owned by Bethesda. ***** I'm sure the first time Aela the Huntress laid her eyes on me, she wasn't particularly...
History of the Empire: Volume Two (1001-present day) Authored by Scribe Bernard Kerr for His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Uhtred VIII 1192 -- Beginning of the War of the Dragonstone. Norman rulers are increasingly proving tyrannical in the face of growing opposition, as Normandy and Trois-Rivieres grow ever richer, the rest of the Empire stagnating, the peo...
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline your request, Jon." Jon frowned at the ambassador's words. Zanari sat in the chair across from him like an unbowed statue: all sharp angles and intractable stiffness. She had her hands folded together in her lap, her multihued outfit glimmering in the light as she watched him with a sharp, contemplative gaze. "I w...