09/26/2024
Li’sar lay under the warm furs in the darkness, her body all scrunched up, pondering what would happen to her. She was warm and surrounded by others, yet she felt cold and alone. Light suddenly entered the chamber, it was Master Balad, one of the slavers. “Time to get up” he instructed. This would be the third day since she …
09/26/2024
Attention Dr. Kent Segumi,Last month while exploring a dusty bookshop in Camden Town England I discovered a very pecululair manuscript dated 1872.The old man at the counter said he could offer no information on the book. Since the condition was very poor, many pages missing, some pages illegible due to water damage, and the leather cover cracked and …
09/24/2024
The IQ thing is no boast, really. I have a few dozen patents under either my name or those of cooperatives that I head. They are certainly lucrative, but most are for industrial processes that wouldn’t interest you. You likely haven’t heard of me. I spend the necessary small effort to stay out of spotlights. I have an adequte sense …
09/24/2024
John Bell coughed and glanced nervously at the banker and railroad man, who were both blowing big billowing clouds of cigar smoke as they sat in the hallway outside the master bedroom, waiting their turn with Rachel. Harris had been in there a long time. John hadn’t even bothered to glance at his pocket watch. Ever since that moment of …
09/24/2024
When I wrote “Anna, Susan, Sandra, Sis, and me”, it was a personal experiment writing a story as dialog only. I didn’t get much feedback but three out of the four letters asked for a sequel to the story. This was never my intention but when I read the story again, I realised that the story and characters held promises …
09/24/2024
Rock City was not a really good idea, but I guess all in all it worked out okay. It was a joint idea that David and I had, to run a disco in an outlying small town on the weekends. It worked okay, but we never any money at it. The perks were good, though. She was there the very …
09/24/2024
The Y2K Bug and the surrounding hullabaloo is remembered by people in different ways. For me it simply puts a date, New Year’s Eve 2000, which would mark a transitional point from quiet, ordinary “normal” person with “unusual” secret desires to the beginning of the road to the person I am today.I’m going to skip over the first six …
09/24/2024
Detective Lansing removed his black hat and lightly knocked on the apartment door. A few moments later, the door slowly opened.“Can I help you,” a girl behind the door asked, suspiciously.The detective noticed that she had a cute face. She looked to be a woman of about twenty years old with shoulder length brown hair and stylish eyeglasses.…
09/24/2024
The door to Steve’s shed was unlocked and ajar when I gently pushed it open. “You’re late,” he said, without looking up from washing his hands in an oil and paint-stained stainless steel laundry tub just inside the door. I started to apologize but he cut me short, telling me to “strip!” He sounded definite about it and I immediately …
09/24/2024
It was working out quite well. I had hired Niki for one of my staff positions a couple months before. She was a little light on experience but made up for that with maturity and attitude. Since I couldn’t get my boss to pay market wages, I was quite happy to have Niki.Niki was divorced and trying to build …