"A Fantasy Vacation That Will Last a Lifetime"
Chapter One: Be Careful What You Wish ForJulie Jo “JJ” Johansson looked up from her personal tablet and glanced at the company computer screen in front of her. It still said, “Standby for Transcription.”“Do you think there is any worse...
"A painted lady emerges from the lake at W’s retirement home."
Chapter One - The Lady EmergesIt was a very nice autumn evening and I was sitting on the back deck of my lake house sipping bourbon when the alarm on my phone sounded. That was immediately followed by a loud...
"Alfreia deLong proves that details matter in EVERYTHING!"
The UTCSS Neil deGrasse Tyson moved slowly through uncharted space. Technically it wasn’t uncharted, but no Terran ships had ever traveled into this relatively barren area of space. Through the years, the United Terran Confederation had sent many drone ships...
"John has the very best Halloween parties ever."
John has the best Halloween parties ever. I attended the first one of his parties ten years ago. I’m not on the guest list, never have been, but no one knows that. There are always a lot of party crashers...
"Young man finds out why his grandmother was afraid of Halloween."
The Karodang house has been on the side of the hill... forever. There are some old frontier pictures of great-great-great-grandma’s sod house from when they first settled their farm and the old stone house is in the background sticking out...
"Belinda Barnotti discovers a real Copper Lady on Witch Hill"
Belinda Barnotti, known to her friends as BB, stood at the entrance to the Witch Hill Nunnery Museum silently debating with herself. She was almost a Doctor of Anthropology. All that was left for her to gain her PhD was...
"Sid is invited to a very special Halloween party."
Sid is a good friend of mine from days long past. He has fallen on hard times. A lot of the men... and women who have been the places we have been and done the things which we have done...
"A young man finds that he is able to see aliens."
They want to know when I first realized that I could change my world. That’s not exactly how they posed the question. They asked “When did you first realize that you were disconnected from reality?”That is a really stupid question,...
"Some bars have great stories behind them. Lady Lucille’s has a legend."
Lady Lucille’s Bar & Grill has been a fixture down on Second Street for many years. Supposedly it was once even closer to the river, but back in the big floods of ’93 it survived only because the owner and...
"Rogue One Finds Out How Kinky The Base Commander Actually Is"
Chapter Five - Commander SylviaRogue walked up to the base airlock and reached up to trigger the microphone so he could speak the entry code. But before he could speak, Jada said cheerfully, “Good Morning, Rogue.” The lock on the...