I woke to an empty bed. I was getting used to that. Again I found Ivy and Lilith downstairs in the kitchen preparing breakfast. I hesitated outside the doorway, eavesdropping on their conversation. It was the reporter in me. "Are you sore?" Lilith asked her daughter. "A little," the girl I had deflowered answered. "But I suppose that's to be expected." "...
This story was created as part of a writing challenge. The goal was to write a story with the title "The Set" using the following ten words: Charity, Harmony, Lavender, Painting, Remote, Ribbon, Skulk, Sky, Solace, Transform Now on with the story. * * * I've always loved movies. When I was a kid, my dad and I would go to a matinee every Saturday. I would...
(Author's Note: For greater enjoyment and atmospheric ambiance, listen to this while reading the intro or the whole story, really. Thanks to cronor for first posting the link to this great song that is now the unofficial theme song to this story in my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RVTvwZUAyM ) Space. The final frontier...or something like that, anyw...
Health Care in the United States: History, Issues and Possible Solutions One of the biggest problems facing the United States today is the lack of a form of socialized medicine that will continue to serve the people. Medicare and the funds that feed it may be dealt a final deathblow in a few years after the baby boom generation begins to utilize its benefit...
I'm a third year medical student and my wife, Laura, is a doctoral student in counseling psychology with an interest in trauma recovery, particularly rape trauma. We are both 26 years old. Laura and one of her classmates, Marty, have become close friends, although Marty and I have never met - that is, we've never met in the ordinary sense of that word. Le...
Cindy used to be an ordinary girl, born in 2089. In 2107, a neurological device was invented called the Universal Inhibitor™. A device that, when implanted into a consensual adult, allowed either them or their partner to control various functions, such as sexual stimulation, disgust repulsion, pain threshold, admiration level, submission level,intelligence p...
Marge Lewis looked across the kitchen table at her eighteen year old son, Jason, and marveled at how much resemblance there was between him and his father. She could imagine that it really was his father sitting there, eating his eggs and bacon and drinking his coffee. "And, soon, it shall be," she thought. Seven months ago, to the day, George Lewis, alon...
I can't remember a time when Adam and I weren't friends. Our mothers met in hospital shortly after giving birth. They swapped numbers and babysat for each other; because of them Adam and I shared the same milestones, whether it was swimming lessons, birthdays, or joining the scouts. We spent so much time together that growing close was inevitable. From pre...
(Its continuation of my old submission) Well after or first chat for next few days I got stuck up in business so much that chatting was out of my mind. One fine day my whole family left for a marriage to a nearby town and I was alone for next 2 days. I reached home after work little early that day; I changed into something comfy and ordered dinner for mysel...
He brought his wife dinner since she was working late trying to finish the month end reports for her new boss. She eat as she worked since she had at least two more hours before she would be done. He decided to use the company workout room while waiting for her to finish up. Not a real fancy exercise place, just some free weights, couple of treed mills and...