Next day was a Saturday. Tarun had decided to take us for a vacation in a jungle resort nearby in the weekend - a four hours' drive from the city. First two and a half hours' journey was through the highway. After that we reached a gravelled road which ran through forests on both sides on a hilly terrain. There was very little sunlight, not a soul in sight...
2nd Battalion Combat Team, 2nd BCT Major Kai (Ghost) Espiritu Commanding The young major inserted his 5.56 mm ammunition cartridge into the last of his 50 round magazines. The Boxer Command APC smoothly rolled through the marsh filled landscape of central Ar'Raq, six men plus the three crews occupied the wheeled combat vehicle. Unlike the other battalion...
Carmen Sorrento wanted me to fuck her. Naturally, I wanted the same thing. We sealed the deal on my purple futon. Sold to me by a fellow with an uncanny resemblance to the fucker who successfully coveted my wife Monica, both men shared the same olive complexion, busy moustaches and wavy black hair. Unfortunately, lots of hard looking and edgy men, men of a c...
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but Frustration is a real mother, period. It was almost midnight and I sat there in the Dallas club in Pusan, Korea clutching what was to be my last beer of the evening. In front of me was the beautiful Jin, looking at me cheerfully with those intoxicating almond eyes. Her jet-black hair was perfectly styled, as al...
Paddling along the estuary of the Bluestone River, Max McAlpine took in a deep lungful of salt-tinged air blown by the breeze off the breakers pounding the bar where the river met the sea. This was life as life was meant to be, he mused, watching two native grey ducks take off from the semi-concealment of a nearby tributary, alarmed by his almost noiseless...
Tina blew down route 66 at a brisk pace. Her blue 66 VW Bug was only three years old, but some days it made noises that made her worry that it was going to die at any given time. Her red shirt whipped in the wind from the open window as she drove, and she smiled, feeling free on the open road, The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" playing on the radio. She saw a h...
Normally I like the snow. This day was an exception to the rule. Being one of the only girls in the ROTC class, I tried extra hard to show that I wasn't weak. The snow was being troublesome though, and it was made worse by the sheer layer of ice beneath. What compounded the problem was that I was the rifleman today which means when we were moving in single...
"Are you sure you want to do this Gina?" "Yes I do. I can't believe that a successful corporate lawyer like you can be a naturalist, and I want to see first hand what you see in nature." James laughed back at her. "Corporate lawyers like me huh?" As they pulled their gear out of the back of his Land Rover, James looked over at Gina. She was a few years yo...
Nerashi crouched by the fire, her hands held out to capture the warmth as the snow around her started to fall again. Shrugging her thick cloak up over her shoulders, she pulled the hood down over her face, letting the dark grey wool grow heavy with the falling flakes that danced in the wind that howled past, threatening to put out the meager flames. She wish...
Chapter 10 -- Last Call "A lot of people wonder what kind of mind it takes to end a life. They want to put a pretty bow on an ugly package so they can wrap their mind around the infinite ways they're different and somehow better, never realizing that the sad truth is that it's us and the gods who put these values to life. I'm not the only one who's watch...