Part One: The Tease "Ya I just can't believe we lost last night, we had such a good team line up!" "Ya we just simply got outplayed, we were a little over aggressive that's all," I respond to my friend Jack across the break room table, as I scroll through my Reddit feed on my phone. "Hey guys, what are you talking about?' Amber asks as walking over and...
Sean leaned against the outside wall of some club, puffing on a cigarette and waiting for some girl his friends had decided to set him up with. It had been three years since the death of his beloved wife, and he was healing, slowly; he knew it was time to start living again. He hadn't put up much fight when his friends Jack and Molly had told him about this...
James Woodward stepped off the vaporetto and began to make his way across the paved approach to the railway station. Like the rest of Venice, it was hot and crowded. Fellow travellers with large suitcases, arriving or departing, lumbered in the heat or stood like islands on a concrete sea, forcing others to walk around them. The steps up to the station entra...
"Where to next Ms. Natchios?" Miki Lee sat in the comfort of her white stretch Limousine, still parked along the curb in front of the Warehouse Clothing and Toy Gallery known as "Fetish's". At the time of his question she was digging into a bag of her purchases and was withdrawn from reality at the moment. She was entirely too giddy inside to accept any out...
In the weeks after the surreal adventure in Rhode Island, I had a hard time focusing on my work. But as fate would have it (and won't it always?) there was a huge merger opportunity hitting us right then. The company concerned was not into software at all. They were large-scale brokers -- they invested for big clients. Enthwistle was amongst them, I saw. O...
When Amy's friend Linda told her about the House of Fantasy it was with a beet red face and came only after a lot of liquor and a fervent promise on Amy's part not to reveal anything that Linda said. For their wedding anniversary, Linda's husband had taken her there so that she could experience sex with another man since he'd been the one to take her virgini...
Amber stood in the doorway, looking out through her storm door on this cold February night. She was watching her neighbor, and her husband's best friend, walking up the street towards her. She had a wicked little smile on her lips as she thought about how this night would turn out. Carl was fairly good looking, and had an athletic body that she had admired o...
Gwen was feeling really tired after an exhausting day of volleyball practice. All around her people were milling towards the multiple exit doors around her; she weakly pushed past them all to get to her locker. When she finally made it to there, she found she was the only person in the aisle except for Brooke. "Hi Brook!" Gwen tried to say as cheerfully as...
It's been a while. New house (with big gardens to plan). New Mac. New promotion. Nuff said. One of my favorite authors is gone from the site, and I miss her work and her contribution to all of us who struggle to open our imaginations to the great readers out there. You don't know me, but good luck out there, kitten. Note to anyone diving into this melodrama...
Mikael strolled down the hallway, a smile on his face. Scratching his damp hair, he felt satisfied; an intense workout followed by a relaxing dip in the baths had left him very content. He'd spent the afternoon sparring with Kristine, his technique improving all the time, constantly picking up tips from the exceptionally talented paladin, and now found himse...