At least I didn't have to answer Shane's question until I had contacted Aki. I was nervous about calling him, but I had backed myself into a corner and now had to do something. Maybe he had left Bangkok, or perhaps he wouldn't want to meet me. Worst of all, he would want to meet me again. I left the others and found a quiet spot to make the call. Aki's numb...
Most of you will never know me. I am the faceless one, the "everyday Joe" you pass on the sidewalk every morning, the nondescript neighbor that you feel obligated to wave to whenever our cars pass. Five minutes after an encounter with me, I'd be willing to bet good money that you can't remember a single distinguishable feature about me. That is how I like...
It still rained all the way to the subway. Nik's phone blew up with texts wondering if he was okay. Their lifestyle became regimented, routine, where any abnormality could be instantly recognized. Nik didn't lie. He just didn't tell the entire story immediately. "I'll be home soon. Got hurt at work. Try not to worry too much, babe," he texted, sitting in t...
Nik sat on the witness stand inside the old city courthouse. Media sat on both sides of the room, taping and writing every comment said during testimony. The jury took notes during the proceeding. A diverse group of people, men, women, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, all did their civic duty. Even though Nik acted in self-defence, he felt the eyes of some onl...
Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don't know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...
*The first few stories in the Alternate Earth series were originally written as individual, unconnected stories. After about 10 years, I've started merging some of the story lines and using characters across other stories. That's when I got the idea to release episodic stories with a broader plotline that eventually comes out in a few later stories. I really...
One of the greatest masturbation sessions I ever experienced was in an onsen, a natural hot spring bath, in Kyoto in Japan. I had been travelling around that beautiful country for nearly two weeks, staying in the cheapest places I could find – which meant they were all communal rooms in youth hostels – before staying with a friend for a few days near Kyoto....
His arms crossed, the eighteen-year old Min-jin kept his focus on the ceiling. He was on a bed, an object Min-jin's dead, youngest uncle never slept on during his life. It was Min-jin's dad's youngest brother who had witnessed a Chinese boy kidnapping Min-hee in an rural village in South Korea. After the kidnapping, Min-jin's uncle had told Min-hee's pare...
MOSKVA, PRESENT DAY. "Winter becomes Mother Russia," Dominika Nedel'ka Patroph mutters to herself. Her brandy-toned eyes stare out the trolley's ice-incrusted window at the fur-wrapped Muscovites trudging along the snowy street. She glances down at the evening's duty assignment sheet in her gloved hand. "Infiltrate a formal business gathering and sniff out...
I can't help bouncing with happiness waiting for John, sore from last night or not I'm fertile. I smile up at Francis as he walks over he had felt really good last night. Judging by his returning smile he feels the same way about me. "Hi Catchada, to be honest I thought you would be hobbling around your house for a day or two after last night." I giggle nor...