14 November, 1943 The air was shedding its veneer of autumn as easily as a winter's coat, and she stood at the rail looking out over the Atlantic as the great ship steamed to the southeast. Even from this modest height - and she guessed she was about fifty feet or so above the water's surface - the sense of speed as the Iowa knifed through the sea was palpa...
Sumalee Sum Chai, suspended in mid air, kicked and thrashed her legs in terror. The Thai beauty gripped at the tentacles wrapping around her body, trying to pry them, loosen them, they were crushing her! One athletic leg, strong and lean, was free of the sinuous evils, but everywhere else merciless pressure pulsed tighter and tighter. The darkly tanned Ind...
Like all other sensations experienced by humans, pain is intrinsically personal, inherently variable, and incredibly motivating. Although pain is defined as an "unpleasant sensation in varying degrees of severity" and "suffering or distress," one person's debilitating, dehumanizing pain may be the means by which another person reaches sexual fulfillment. Lik...
(Sir) Pulling into the parking lot, the gravel crunching under the weight of the tires. He smiles at finally arriving. It had been a long journey, well, it seemed to him as though it had been. The clock inching forward earlier when he was snared in city traffic. But, as he inched forward, slowly the snare was released and he soon cruised easily along the co...
"There is a certain organized chaos in this life that we lead, and that's what makes it beautiful," Oscar Basing said to himself as he sat on the front porch, reflecting on all the strange things that had happened to him lately. Sipping on his ice tea, Oscar looked at the sprawling sea of greenery that filled the landscape, everywhere he looked. This was Bos...
Will was sitting on the living room sofa when Tori returned home from her long day out. There was an evil looking smile on his face. Will knew all of Tori's dirty little secrets. He knew about her wild new lover, Pat, all the exotic, erotic games they had played behind his back for the last eight months. Only married for two weeks when she start having this...
We are somewhere in northern Germany or southern Scandinavia in the seventh century. In a century or two the people living here will discover that they are Vikings. Now they are living peacefully as farmers and hunters, prospering in the mild climate. They are already worshiping the gods that the Vikings will later make famous. Of all the gods, they revere t...
On the fourth day of January, a couple moved into a local subdivision; a family of six, and what appeared to be husband, wife, and their children. There in South Carolina, at least in that neighborhood, it had been tradition to invite new family's over for cookouts or meals, depending on the season or the new neighbors. Everyone Tom and Yvonne had over or...
With his reputation, a quiet Saturday morning was rarely a thing that actually could happen, and in his line of work those Saturdays at home were few and far between. What he thought would be a quiet day, a day with no interruption that should not be so difficult for a single man, was anything but -- all caused by one woman walking into his building, The Syc...
I was sitting in my smoky office, daydreaming about the good-old days when detective work required hardboiled men in trench coats tailing suspects down dark, rain drenched alleys, when a knock on my door brought me back to reality. My Saint Bernard, Dick Tracy, raised his head from between his paws and gave a half-hearted "woof". Shaking my head in disappo...