Good evening, dear people of the world. How are you doing? What brings you to my doorstep at this hour? Perhaps you wandered in by accident. Or mere curiosity. Well, whatever brought you here, since you might be here a while, why not sit down and spend some time with me. I have a story which I would very much like to share with you. My name is Stephen Michae...
There is this thing about being normal. It is often described as the preferable way to spend our lives, telling us how to behave socially, how to prevent embarrassment, how to be accepted by the people around us. But do we really know how it's properly done? Are there rules, say, things written down? Oh sure, there is the law, of course, and there are...
Suzette shivered and her eyelids fluttered as she struggled to see something—anything—in the dense shroud of mist that surrounded her. All she could see was the gnarled trunk of a monstrous tree several feet away. It looked positively ancient and otherworldly, like a redwood or a giant cedar. But how could that be? As far as she knew, there were no such tree...
She looked ridiculous. Like some beached whale, wrapped in a tarp while the humans attempted to save it. She was fat. Fat and disgusting. She had been for as long as she could remember. Though she tried, desperately, but too often in vain, not to remember. Not to think about the past. About the pain. Cathy stared in the mirror. This was a bad idea. She sho...
"If you wish to claim the woman as your own, Lieutenant," the captain spoke casually as he took another bite of his dinner, "you know that you must make a display." "And if YOU don't display her," Commander Blake piped up from across the table, "then I certainly will!" Lieutenant James knew that he meant it. Blake had had his eye on Mary from the day the...
Readers: This is just a short fantasy fable in which I present a revised version of a classic fairytale. I wrote this tale in response to a question I asked myself. Whatever happened after the girl with golden locks got away from the three bears and grew up? This is my answer. Once upon a time and long ago A woodcutter and hunter was I, living alone in th...
This is Chapter One of a book. Because it is a book, some of the chapters are more exciting than others, and some situations do not complete until the next chapter. This first chapter is primarily setup, but has some very interesting parts. For later chapters, the characters and situation will be more understandable if the previous chapters have been read. I...
As the sun rose on a cool spring morning, a young orc woman was taking her first steps on a long journey ahead, leaving the village she had grown up in behind her. Mazra had come of age in her village, meaning that she was free to explore the world as she wished. Her beautiful face was glowing with excitement at the possibilities that lay ahead for her. She...
Abigail sat weeping on the couch of her darkened apartment, arms hugging her knees to her chest. Gazing with puffy red eyes into the light of the TV she watched her failure play out on the evening news. "Police are calling for assistance in identifying a woman who invaded Alhambra High School this afternoon. Surveillance footage shows she entered the ground...
Interesting crowd of people assembled. Anne made a mental note to come back one night when she hadn't any plans. She filled the empty stool next to a couple of bickering lesbians and ordered a beer after being told it would be another ten minutes for the lasagna dinner she'd phoned in. The elfin mulatto girl, with the long braids, platinum jewelry and a gauz...