My first adult job after leaving school was as a pool lifeguard. Many of my friends, male and female, worked at the local swimming pool, which made shifts fun to do. Constant training gave us pool-fit bodies, sculptured and toned, that differentiated us from our peers, and the many residents of this small town, whose ideas of exercise were the pool table and...
Zhair'lo eyed the pathetic lot of prisoners stomping and stumbling through the forest in front of him. He thought they'd looked haggard back at their camp, but the glaring sunlight of high noon made their filth all the more obvious. "That's the best they have?" he shook his head. "You sound disappointed," Sergeant Yung appeared at his side, his eyes never...
She stood bent over the sink in her bathroom applying her second coat of mascara in the mirror. She always used black, knowing it clashed with her blue eyes in all the right ways. She had never excelled at the art of make-up application and was thankful she had features that didn't require much enhancing. So she stuck to the basics: foundation, blush, eyelin...
I yelp as water is dumped over me, and flinch back to the walk. I blink a dozen times, trying to get accustomed to the light, or the lack of it really. Was this another training test? My body aches a little, and as I look down I realize I'm totally naked. Who undressed me? What the hell?! I glance up, seeing the space I've been confined to. It's tight, only...
Tatiyana announced, as she strode outside where I had been washing my Pet, "I have a wonderful idea. It's a beautiful day, a weekend. Lets go to the beach!" From Karen's cheerful cry I figured out that a unanimous decision was likely; was, in fact, the plan. I even heard Suzy, obviously back from church, holler out her window. I smiled. "It's a great idea....
BUKAKKE AND DOM "What do you think?" Gwen smiled. Jacob stood behind her as she surveyed herself in the mirror in the bathroom. Her nipples were pierced with gold figure eights and a medium weight gold chain hung between the two. "I like them. I just wish I wasn't so sore. Can you at least take off the chain?" "I can't. It requires a tool. When you're do...
The votes have spoken, and Ch. 19 currently stands as the weakest chapter in this entire story, with an even worse track record than the strap on chapter, which I fully expected to not do well. As I admitted in the comments in Ch. 19, apparently, fights are a weakness of mine, and it was probably very obvious how much I am influence by shounen anime and man...
We all understand the impact of leadership on organizational dynamics and effectiveness. In a military unit in a war zone the impact can be more pronounced and more rapid. When I arrived in the RVN in the summer of 1969 I was assigned to an Assault Helicopter company commanded by a Major. A commander served for six months; in my one-year tour of duty I exp...
My many thanks to hex_nalun and Rosemund_deBurg for corroborating with me on this. You guys rock!!! ******************** "So... the Sword has ordered me here... A town called Nightshade..." The young man's voice trailed off a bit. His short golden brown hair rustled a little in the breeze as he stepped out of the car. Not much could be told about him at a...
#B34123J is the most perfect specimen of humanity Dr. Kent has ever seen, and all she can think when she sees him is: what a waste. She has his specs on the pad in front of her: 6'5, 190 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes, 28 years old; section: lambda, section of origin: delta. Even that brief outline caused a commotion among the other doctors when it arrived...