"We rejoice in her return from a business trip, then she told me what she does for a living."
I travel by commuter flight each week for work. My week starts Sunday night and ends Thursday night when I go home. I met Joan a couple of weeks ago on my flight to work. She was on her way...
"Shane's life aboard the space ship changes forever after he meets a sojourner in his quadrant."
As the last moments of Warner's sojourn in the punitive quadrant tick away I miss him before he is gone. Prior to the unannounced arrival of his pretty stalker friend Parker, a Command officer, Warner was silly and often flirted with me. Now we...
"Spencer finds success in business and in bed."
Emma was pregnant. I thought it was mine. Emma's pregnancy was the third shoe to drop after losing Molly, my girlfriend, and losing my job. Molly never found out about me and Emma. If she had, we would have parted...
"The story of a Cowboy with a personal secret that is finally exposed"
"Hike!"Maverick raised up and squeezed Old Babe around her barrel just enough to get her to a gallop.They'd been driving cattle from Montana to Wyoming every summer for the past three years now. This year, they had fifteen hundred head...
"Sometimes history isn't as ancient as you think."
Marcus Avilius looked up from the scroll he was deciphering when the woman walked into the room. It was tedious work pulling the hidden messages from the benign looking scrolls, and the fact that the messages were routine status reports...
"He was tired of death; tired of trying to kill unknown men who kept trying to kill him."
It was another turbulent day in the summer of 68. Student protests raged from the Sorbonne to Berkeley. In the US, civil rights demonstrations and anti-war rallies were turning violent. Martin Luther King was dead; Bobby Kennedy would be soon....
"All good things must end. Let's end it with love."
It wasn't a great surprise. In the back of my mind I had known it was possible. But I had other things to keep me busy. Life was always there giving me responsibilities and mundane chores to accomplish. Also, all...
"Complex webs of affection."
I could hear them.Touching. Moaning. Kissing. Fucking. Through the walls, I could hear them so clearly. In the darkness I lay alone in his bed, listening to every move made just outside the door. There was a single candle on...
"Is There Any Hope?"
For years now I've been in love with my best friend's kid sister. It all started after she turned seventeen. It was as if a brand new shiny light shined on her. It isn't like she started acting differently, or...
For the next two weeks there would be no uniforms. They were not going to be in the Army now. They were on leave. On vacation from service. And they were getting married. Private Ashley Lovall and Staff Sergeant Jacob...