Betty was this year’s dragon bait. There was a lottery and she got picked. How about that? “No!” she cried out when they called her name. “I’m not crunchy, this wont work.” The others simply pushed her outside and threw the staff at her feet. “What’s this?” she asked, as Read more…
Lena was not happy with the beach. It was apparent in the way she frowned and stared daggers at me. But how was I to know that the supposedly ‘secret beach’ in Crete would be such a mess? Discarded trash, broken glass, thankfully ground down into brown and green pebbles, Read more…
Karen bit her lip and held the hot chocolate carefully. She spilled some on the little plate below the cup, cursing herself all the way. “What do you do up here every evening?” Karen asked, bringing the man his beverage and setting it before him. “My girlfriend and I, we’re Read more…
She stalked them the entire night. Li Wei and his mates went through a drinking bender along the rim of Santorini’s finest bars. They had some fun and drinks with ladies, but nothing crude like strippers or such. They spent so much money anyway that they attracted a lot of Read more…
Ada dreaded the school trip. Landing there at Rome airport, she didn’t know why she’d even agreed to come here. I mean, she didn’t have any friends to hang out with, she certainly didn’t have a boyfriend. What did she expect to do all week? Then again, she had earned Read more…
Many people think they can remember things from when they’re four years old. Truth is, that unless they’ve had a traumatic experience, those memories are fabricated, imaginations with the framework built from someone’s retelling of the incident or even a photograph, with the older mind filling in the gaps. However, Read more…
“Redheads are evil,” Finn said from between the woman’s legs.She moaned softly and ran her fingers through his hair. “Are they now?”Finn bit softly the patch of red hair over her clitoris, and kept on talking, breathing and brushing his lips on it. “Yes. Didn’t you hear? It says so Read more…
Euclidia was the only Geometer brave enough to go to the obsidian mine. The problem was simple, as such problems went: The obsidian golems had gone on a strike. “Knock, knock,” she said lamely when she reached the mine’s entrance. It was simply a cave that had been dug out Read more…
Sir Patrick and the Mermaid In a way, Sir Patrick felt responsible for what happened. It wasn’t his tugboat and it wasn’t his propeller that injured her, but he was nearby and he was minding his nets instead of seeing what was up with all the racket. The sea Read more…
Explosive Decompression KABOOM! She kept telling everyone that she couldn’t cook. At all. But nooo, being an astronaut wasn’t enough, apparently. Having two expert-level skills also wasn’t enough, apparently. ‘Men don’t want an EVA specialist or an acceleration manipulator expert,’ her mom kept telling her. For the first few years, Read more…