The world of Aesyr is a brutal, unstable world that holds no quarter. The only consistency is the cosmic rules that all msut follow...including the gods themselves. Every century there's a divine lottery in every pantheon. And only few among them ever get to win the jackpot. Those who do...rise above their brothers and sisters, to become the ruling chosen an...
Some of my stories start off as short stories, but they take on a life of their own and turn into full novels. In the Lovers From Beyond series, Vivian's Escapades was meant to be a short story, but it ended up being a full novel. Similarly, my first Heartbreakers short story turned into an entire trilogy. That's what happened here with Finding Paradise. Ori...
Intro: Few days have passed since Julia returned to school in D.C. Past few days were hell for Julia since D.C was one of the areas that full clothing ban for whites was not in effect entirely and she was one of the only ones fully naked coming from a whole clothing ban states. Now the few days have passed, and in-processing/school is about to begin. How wil...
Chapter 7 Romance and Love A true romantic, Michael yearned for love much like Don Quixote searched for Dolcinea. Never relinquishing his belief that, one day, when he found his special person, he would find love and romance. Like innocence and virginity, something not shared with more than one in a lifetime; he believed that love and romance were as one an...
It was a modern day commune, like in the sixties when it was peace and love, and brothers and sisters. Hey, man, mind if I sleep with your old lady? Sure, man, I don't own her. She's free as a bird, man. The commune sat on old farm land just off the border of New York and Pennsylvania. A lottery winner had bought the property. An old sixty's throwback, dye...
A Wose by any otheu Descwiption is stiw a Wose A Love Story I think it correctly, but I cannot say it right. I mean, I think "rose" and it comes out "wose". Oh, they make fun of me all right. All my life, I get shit everywhere I go. I'm 25 years old and the advantage is I stand 6'4", weight 225, sandy hair and green eyes. The girls think I am cute, I have...
Demetrius was sweating heavily now. Having just turned 18, he and the other young men in his village were subject to the annual lottery. This lottery, held once a year, determined which young man in the village would be the sacrifice to the Goddess Aphrodite that year. All young men aged 18 were subjected to the lottery and there were no exceptions. Diana, h...
The Public Service Program was first piloted in 2050, at the time it was offered as a way to help the people living on Basic feel useful. Every person living on Basic would be put into a lottery and when your name came up you would have to spend a week doing some menial task. At the start it was things like painting walls and digging ditches. Dull but easy t...
My wife Linda and I have always played the lottery. We never expected to win, but we would often spend time talking about what we would do with the winnings. When it finally happened, it caught us by surprise and the shock lasted for several days. We held the only winning ticket to a $342 million jackpot. After taxes and taking the lump sum we cleared just o...
Life sucks, for two years now I have been unemployed. 30 years of age and I can't get past the first door; interviews; I've had that many interviews that I can almost write the script for what were to be asked and said at them, they are nearly all identical. I live in a single room flat, which is all I can afford on the unemployment payment I receive from t...