I watched quietly as he came to. He was obviously disoriented, and his mind wasn't functioning quite up to par. He grimaced in pain as he discovered his condition. He couldn't move well enough to see how bad it was, but he could definitely feel some pains and aches where there shouldn't be any. He tried to speak but discovered now that he couldn't. The ball...
I met Emma at a party. I was in the last year of my PhD, studying Maths and Physics with a special interest in superconductivity. The party was a regular occurrence but although there was always booze and a bit of weed no-one got drunk and there was very little messing about. It was a crowd of friends and acquaintances from uni and we enjoyed long relaxed di...
Jennifer McDougall slumped in the hard-back chair on the other side of my large wooden desk. The wind knocked out of her sails, I knew she was beaten. Tears ran down her face, and I handed her my handkerchief to wipe them away. It was a losing battle though, for each time she dried those blue eyes the tears continued to flow. "Mr. Roberts, I'm so sorry,...
INTRODUCTION In our day and age of easy labels and quick stereotyping, we tend to imagine the Victorian era in England as something of a conservative and reserved time. It is an old observation that every generation thinks it invented sex, but no people in history are seen as having been quite so sexless as the Victorians, and especially the refined society...
The flight was cancelled? Had I heard the announcement correctly? I looked around at the other waiting passengers. Their faces told the story. Oh my god I thought. I turned to the person next to me. "What now, I wonder?" I said. "I am pretty sure they will put us up somewhere and fly us out tomorrow," the other passenger answered. I didn't know whether to...
This story is total fantasy and has no relationship to real life or experience. There is no under-age sex or cruelty. Over the next few days I kept hoping and praying and crossing my fingers that Mrs Miller and her son would turn up at our door. I could see that my wife Lucille was seething. She needed Mrs Miller to come and made no bones about the matter...
"When you were in Phoenix, ah...did you...damn it, this is difficult for me," Katy said. I shrugged. My business had failed six months before, and the first job I found took me to Phoenix for four months. Katy and our two children couldn't relocate with me. She had a contract with the school board as a guidance counselor, and couldn't or wouldn't break her...
Author's Note: Here's another in cauda venenum story that could go in multiple sections on this site. I think you would agree that it belongs here, despite some of the elements some readers have come to expect from me. Please remember that this is fiction, and it follows its own rules, so please suspend your disbelief before reading. I do believe there are s...
Astronomy 1 - Eclipsus As Patrick turned off the main road towards the idyllically picturesque village that was now home he believed himself to the luckiest man alive. He had plenty of reason. After a few years of moderate struggle he was now forging a reputation as one of the finest guitar builders in Europe. What had once been a hobbyist's obsession was n...
Author's Note: Melancholy story of looking at the past and wishing things had been different. There's no sex in this story, so if that's what you're looking for I'd skip this one. This one is a little different than most of my other stories since I tried telling the story primarily through dialog. It was an experiment to help me get stronger as a writer. Hop...