Day 1 How do we find meaning without independence? Eight people. One room. Four walls. No doors. They awoke together, the groans of the first awakening the second, and so on, until they were all sitting up, examining their surroundings and each other. Before anyone could gather their wits, a deep voice poured out of the walls from every direction at once. “W...
"God, Ben! You have a wonderful way of making people regret ever meeting you. He's my cousin for Chrissakes!" These words are carried from the bedroom, down the hall, and into the living room, by the sheer force of the anger in Madeline's voice. Directly behind them is the form from which they propelled, struggling through the small apartment with...
--Red academy for girls is an advanced school for those between 18 and 21 years of age, who wish to excel in the future of art, science, literature, and athletics.-- She hugged me. "Don't cry Mercy. Let's just get dressed and you can explain." Partly in shock and partly in shame I stayed on my knees. Trisha Got up and left me, confused with the water still...
This story contains characters who grow to crazy sizes, so if that is something you are not into, I would advise against reading this. ***** "You're both in an open relationship, right? So what's the deal? Why you holding back?" Gary had found himself in a rather compromising situation at his wife's holiday office party. As Maya presented in the other roo...
"He looks so peaceful floating in there." "I do don't I?" Sophia Ridge frowns a Young James Ian Pryce as they observe the body of James the Elder from his own future. Floating in his preservation tube he at least would not decay. Being deceased does that to a person. Sophia was tired of being duped and used. Her Great Grandfather Orin Ridge had switched hi...
"Thanks for coming over, Dr. Rose, Mr. Stalvert." I widely swept a hand inside. "Please come in." The woman standing at the front door of my condo gave a perfunctory smile, cordial but brief. I gave her a quick up and down as she passed me, breezing in through the front door and looking around. She was in her late forties to early fifties, maybe; about ten...
Amy Redoreck's day started like any other. She went into the coffee shop early and opened it. Why the coffee shop was open at night was beyond her, but they always seemed to get enough business so, whatever. She fended off Brad, her annoying co-worker's advances as always. She caught the creepy owner's stares at her boobs, check. And the usual customers came...
I smile at you as you look at the woman in the grocery store, she's by the produce, near the ground grown vegetables. "How about her?" I ask, my teasing smile already adorning my lips. I can see that you're already eying the woman with me, too, only a few by that section. She's dressed in a grey pants suit, a darker grey blazer adorning her shoulders. It's...
For centuries, Leviathans had dwelled the waters of the world as undisputed rulers of the sea, before they suddenly vanished. All, save for one. She was born just before the odd phenomenon, and as such, seemed unaffected. She was raised by Merfolk, who had found her due to her constant, earsplitting wail. She was a newborn, hungry for a mother's milk. The wo...
Believe it or not, I'm not a peeping Tom. Not by nature, at any rate. But what are you going to do when a shapely and attractive woman parades herself in front of her large picture window for all the world to see? Here's the set-up. I live in a big apartment building that's really two buildings in one, divided by a "courtyard"—if you can call it that—t...