"Unfit succubus finds love and her freedom"
Lilah sulked into the bathwater with a frustrated sigh, trying to forget the humiliation of today's performance evaluation as the soothing heat enveloped her. Three. Hundred. YEARS, Lilah! - not one soul? You are an embarrassment. Her horns nearly steamed from the memory. The demon...
"Fifteen months of research brings Professor Matt Ferney to his ultimate goal."
Fifteen months of research brought Professor Ferney to the Eastern Andes of Ecuador and a long descent into the Cueva de Los Tayos (Cave of the Oilbirds). Matt’s feet hit the bottom of the rope ladder and the light from...
"Sometimes ancient mythology isn’t so ancient."
As the youngest of the staff archeologists at our local museum, I am often asked why I decided to commit to a career at our small hometown museum rather than trying for one of the larger museums in a bigger...
"An ode to a Priestess of our Goddess"
The nine muses sing 'round the fall faerie ringWhile we dance in a circle of stoneAnd the embers glow red as we dance with the deadWhere the spirits in the barrows now moan Our arms slowly raise to the Goddess we...
"In 2020, the Sirens reappeared on planet Earth; compellingly seductive and possessing a new weapon."
1900UTC: USS Nimitz - Sea of Okhotsk, Extended Sea Duties.The sign on the door read ‘Lieutenant Dawn Delaney’ and it stood out in a sharp contrast to the battleship grey innards of the aircraft carrier’s metal passageways. The air here...
"In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora. - Ovid"
Ich komme, ich komme, grünende Brüder…“I am coming, I am coming,” I sing, as my soft arms extend heavenwards – curling, flexing, fashioning out of my imagination leaves, vines, boughs of ash and laurel – as I embrace the gift...
"The myths come to life."
She gazed out through the raindrop dappled glass doors. There had been a harsh, thunderous rainfall last night. The web appeared intact, at least partially. The spider was still and unmoving. The golden patterned arachnid must have been slowly moving up...
"An archaeologist and her assistant go on a field trip and are bred by mythological satyrs."
My name is Alexis, and this story chronicles an experience my graduate assistant, Rhea, and I had on an archaeological fieldtrip on a supposedly uninhabited island in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece. But it will be helpful...
"Man of Lamia blood encounters a lusty Harpy queen."
Aris finished tying his shoes and turned his eyes back to Tiassa. The Lamia Queen’s huge, impossibly perky breasts were partially hidden beneath an out-of-fashion bikini top. Her serpentine lower half was concealed by the waves, and an illusion, giving...
"When the monster fully emerges will it be Masculine or Feminine"
Mulberry trees (Morus spp.) are a species that are gender fluid—they may first be male, then female, then change back again. You can find individual mulberry trees that are dioecious—with only male flowers or only female flowers. But right next to...