Vanessa operated her scanner, watching a holographic display map out the surrounding terrain. She sighed. Another day, another survey. She couldn't wait to get off this planet, off this job. Come to Venus they said, a jewel among the stars they said! It didn't take her long to find out that Venus was the butterface planet of the solar system, pretty from af...
Six months earlier. It was at a beach party that Jack was turned. Someone, an acquaintance, invited him and a few bottles, to the dunes on the South Kentish Sea front near Dungeness. As usual, he drank a bit too much, but he was sure afterwards, that his drink was spiked. Certainly, he had a metallic taste in his mouth the next morning and a monumental hea...
With my darling wife Sally committed to the trip to LA to meet my old friend, now working in the porn industry, she entered into the project with the usual commitment she gave any new enterprise. She made appointments at the 'female only' gym for a one hour session both in her lunch break and immediately she finished work. The gym was near to her office and...
"You suck as a best friend!" Kim shouted at me. He was so pissed. I had gone and started dating someone and now I must be punished. I didn't understand. He'd dated for the entire 9 years we knew each other. "I look out for you, and this is how you repay me!?" He was actually kind of cute when he was mad. His fangs descended and he began to lisp. It only...
If you're not over 60, this story will make no sense at all to you. ********************* I admit it: I'm a geezer. But it wasn't always this way. There was a time when I was young, a time when I could do anything. A long time ago, so long ago that I have almost forgotten what it was like. Almost. When I was a little kid, my friends and I would get involv...
Last time I told you how Carl and Ann met, he saved their house and she got him to come down off the hillside. Life should have been led happily ever after but that is not the way of the world. Had it been that smooth, I would never have come into the picture. ------------------------ Carl was just going by the room that Ann's girls (Linda 13 and Sara 11)...
CHAPTER 1 - FIRST MEETING I'd known Jeremy pretty well for five or six years - we'd been to school together right up until I went off to university. He got a job in a local supermarket, and we caught up with each other from time to time when I was back home in holidays. I ran into him in the Easter break in my second year, and he seemed very enthusiastic ab...
No moon, no stars, just dark clouds and headlights. She continued driving in the near pitch black staying focused on the lines of the road and trying not to get blinded when another car passed her going the other way. She was headed home after attending a party with her friends, it had been a good night but she wasn't happy that she had to make the drive hom...
A welcome relief from two months of the yawning black of deep space, the magical colours of the Rainbow nebula filled the upper deck porthole of Carlo's sleek black freighter. He was still far too far away to see the Rainbow itself but the signal from the hotel's deep space beacon was unfaltering on the deck's instrument panel. The signal faithfully guided t...
Hard Passion: The Chronicles of Erica Bradson Chapter 5 The False Smile Morning came faster than before. My eyes soared at the sight of the sun peeking through the window in our room, and my body felt weak and used up. It did not help that my alarm clock kept ringing that god awful sound, like a nagging two year old wanting something. I kept missing the...