The scientists of Earth Friendly Futures were working as fast as they could to complete tests on the soil and water samples they'd gathered from around the U.S. during 2004 and 2005. Then they started on samples that were being sent to them from other environmentalists around the world through the IOPF. Most of the next few years would be spent doing nothin...
Graduate School is tough and is a place where one should be going due to aptitude and personal conviction, particularly when attempting to secure a professional degree like an MBA. I met Sheikh Hamed al Sagri, in my finance class, during the second semester. Hamed was in his mid-thirties and was attending the school courtesy of the Saudi Arabian government's...
This is my first submission and I plan to make it a series. Constructive criticism is wanted and welcome. I also would love to hear if this excited you in any way. I have written many stories for my love, and this is one of them. I thank him for encouraging me to start sharing my stories and for being my inspiration. All characters in the story are 18 years...
Author's note. This is a continuation of my previous story 'My Egyptian Romance.' Although not essential, I suggest you read that first. Chapter 02: Betrothed I was besotted with him. No, that suggests a temporary crush and that was not what I felt for Ahmed. I was in love with him as I had been for most of the six months I had known him. We met when I ha...
Been offline for a bit since making my debut in the Summer Story competition. Got a compliment or two for my entries there, so here is a late one for the September competition, to keep me in the running ... When I started discussing porn with my wife, she said the most erotic film she had seen was The Sheltering Sky. In this, I vaguely remember, John Malko...
Games and Distractions It was long past noon and the weather wasn't exactly making their long road to As'arain easy. With a minor sandstorm roaring outside the group were sitting inside a cave waiting for the weather to improve. Zalen sighed, lounging against the wall. The others were killing time in various ways, Darnac had dozed off, Coryel was sharpeni...
This is an idea for a story I have been kicking around for a while. I am going to try releasing an episode a week if people seem to want to read it. Hopefully it is entertaining to some. ***** Chapter 1 I always did like to make a grand entrance. Unfurling my wings I slid in between the newbie necromancer and the two paladins. Surprisingly there were e...
I first set foot in the Shawarma Sky restaurant in the City of Nepean, Ontario, a few months ago. I work as a loss prevention officer at the nearby Blue Store, the largest retail outlet in the area. The owner, Malik Al-Bouri, is a nice, forty-something Arab gentleman married to Nafisa, a tall, lovely and curvy, soft-spoken and doe-eyed, friendly and kind Afr...
It's Thursday morning, and I lie on my bed, sighing profoundly. Tonight, at midnight, I'm finally getting paid. As of right now, though, a quick logon into my CIBC account reveals my combined assets totaling one dollar and seventeen cents. Why is that a problem, you may wonder? Yeah, why can't a brother wait until Friday? Um, it's my lady Fayruza "Fay" Bin S...
Abu Dhabi had changed a lot in the past twenty years. Obviously, I had expected more marble, more glass, more glitz, but boy, they had outdone themselves. From the grand mosque to the monster shopping malls, it looked like the UAE capital had exploded to catch up with its sister Dubai up the coast once the sheikh had passed away. Three nights, two days, one...