"A rookie gamer challenges her DM with breathtaking results"
“SUCK MY BALLS, ASSHOLE!”With one last excited pump of her arms, Kris opened her hand and let loose. The die rattled across the narrow table, wobbled to a stop and rolled upright. Eleven.“Congratulations on your basic adequacy,” murmured Otis Chen...
"HR steps in to mediate an 'unusual' office romance."
Devin Kilroy hummed as he tended to the Zen garden on his desk. The shifting of the grains beneath his hand helped calm him, the fine movements needed to maintain the patterns he wove. He took a moment between every...
"Seeking a break from monotony, Marianne pushes her husband to the brink."
Marianne stood at the window, naked but for the sheet wrapped around her torso, and watched her husband and his friends shoot the breeze beside their pickup trucks in the driveway below.She took another draw on her cigarette. Usually the...
"Honour student Mika lets down her teacher and pays the price."
“Miss Conti, please see me after class.”The message delivered, Mr. Desaulniers returned to the seat at his desk as the bell rang. As if a cord had been cut, twenty-seven twelfth graders leapt to their feet, reaching for their coats...
"Some purloined treats propel a young couple into new and kinky territory"
Bertie tugged for the third time at his necktie, then finally unwound it and started over. The motions of a Windsor knot still came clumsily to him, but it wouldn’t do for the new Assistant Manager to look sloppy. No...
"A dominatrix has a new lesson for a pair of curious college students"
Sherrie took her seat, crossing her legs. This was new territory for her, and she wanted to ensure she was making the best impression. She’d gone for the ripped jeans over the fishnets, a loose-fitting IME T-shirt instead of the...
"Rachel faces her final challenge... and judgment"
Rachel, please see me in the studio. H.Rachel felt a chill that had nothing to do with the cold inside the radio station garage. She didn’t have to the check the number to see that the message had come from...
"An omen on the night before Christmas..."
In the dream, he stood in a house. Not an apartment as he lived in now, a man of thirty-five, but a house like the one in which he’d grown up. The floor strong hardwood that creaked in the night...
"One tanning leads to another"
Rachel lay stretched in the lounger by the pool, a drop of sweat beading on her forehead. She felt it swell, begin to dribble, and then dissolve into steam before even touching the bridge of her nose. It was hot,...
"A face from the past ignites Bertie's memory"
NOWThe aphorism that “you never forget your first” was one that had always bothered Bertie.For one, which ‘first’ was it referring to? His first crush would have been on a classmate in grade school, but which classmate or even which...