"Do wishes really come true?"
Three months had passed since Lena had said goodbye to Arion. She focused on work as much as possible. Saw her friends sometimes, but nothing ever replaced him. She felt hollow without him. "Lonely" could never cover it. The only...
Beyond the timeWe should have ended Braced through trialsWe should have lost Betrayed by thoseWe’ve since unfriended BenefitsVersus the costs Reaching outWhere understanding Doesn’t seemWhat we will find Surprised that weHave stayed together Unlike in lifeUnlike in mind Long sufferingWe...
"One final wish..."
Lena sat behind her desk at work, smiling fondly at the framed photo of Arion and herself which stood before her. She could hardly believe it had been so long since she'd first received the magic jukebox. 2015 was coming...
"Every god has his day."
“Gods should be exempt from human passions.”-Euripides, “The Bacchae”***Eros arrived. He could already tell he had quite a mess on his hands. There were two of them, a man and a woman, both in love with the other, though neither...
"When a tribe is nearing extinction, one has to go to extreme changes to save the clan."
It was the disease the white man brought to us. It wiped out almost our entire tribe. There were only thirteen of us left. The worse part was it wiped out all the women and children. We were a tribe...
"A ghostly presence helps Kathy discover her sexuality."
Kathy had always loved men and had several male partners she had sex with on a fairly regular basis. She loved the feel of a man's chest hair pressed against her breasts; the hardness of his muscles. She loved the...
"Sometimes wishes do come true..."
Daria Sitting alone in her cabin high in the Rocky Mountains Daria gazed at the dancing flames in her fireplace.She was absently stroking the fur of her favorite cat, Leo, and wishing she were not alone on tonight of all nights,...
"Lea can have everything but David, or so she thought"
The sun descended into the jagged horizon, casting dark, ominous shadows across Lea’s room. She gazed out the window, forehead resting upon the cool glass, watching the men below stack hay into the cart. Her heart pulsed at the sight...
"KEVIN!" Jane cried out, her eyes streaming.The heat from the flames was getting nearer, but her bonds were too tight for her make any progress on escape. The pounding noise on the other side of the thick steel door had...
"The woman with the glow faces the past she kept secret"
At first I thought I'd imagined her aura from across the room simply because she was heart-stoppingly beautiful. Blamed a product of too many movie moments in my head: the slow-motion swish of her charcoal plait and an orchestral swell...
