"Whoever else you have here," the two angels, Malkiel and Lufiel, told Lot, "sons-in-law, your sons and daughters, whoever you have in Sodom, bring them out of here for we will destroy this place. Its cry is very great before God." Lot ran to his married daughters' homes but they and their husbands, men of the city, just laughed at him. He returned home dejected. At daybreak, the angels warned Lot, his wife and their two...

- Late one afternoon in early spring 586 BC, Carchemish, where the Euphrates crosses the present Syrian-Turkish border - "Molat, I got your money!" Bardylla burst into Molat's tavern in Carchemish, a lawless border town that paid nominal homage to King Syennesis of Cilicia, a small state that eked out a tenuous existence among the major powers of the region: Babylonia, Media, Lydia and—far to the south, but with dreams of...

"OK, the last item," Supersonic Woman announced at orientation for new students at the Academy for the Extraordinarily Abled, "is the safeword. Given your ages, and your various abilities, we realize that there will be a lot of, ah, extra-curricular activity going on." She means you'll be fucking each other's brains out "Yes, everyone say hello to Mentalica, our head telepath. Ment'?" Only Speedy Gonzalez here gets to cal...

"In your yeshiva, this would be a sin, right?" "Yep. And in your African Methodist Episcopal seminary?" "Uh-huh." "My rabbi says if you just run from temptation, it will just follow you. You have to turn and face it." "My minister says if you want to wrestle the devil to the ground, you have to grab ahold of him first." Isaac rolled over to face Ashley, who put her arms around him and kissed him as he thrust inside her. T...

Daoud unrolled his prayer rug in the grass, shed his clothes, lay down and bid Basmat join him. "But the rug is for prayer!" Basmat said. "Oh, my jewel, is prayer only for mosques? Why do we thank Allah this night?" "For revealing His Quran to mortal flesh." "Then let flesh thank Him! When we, whom He has joined as husband and wife, bring each other to bliss, are we not thanking Him?" "You are insane." "And you love it."...

Northeast Hispania; Mediterranean Sea coast; June 218 BC "The Council won't like this," Hannibal muttered. "They don't scare me," Madrea replied. "The Goddess Tanit might not like it either." "She scares me." "I hope for your sake that Gisgo is not just some toy you fancy. For a foreigner like him, citizenship of Carthage is a privilege that must be earned, and as good a scribe and secretary as he is, he has not met that...

"But Sarah, I just started antibiotics." "I don't care about your tonsillitis. I'm horny for your tongue and if I don't get it right now, you're going to have a lot more to worry about than a sore throat." "Well, if you put it that way…" "I do put it that way. Ohhh…" # "Do you believe those morons are still using penicillin?" "Yeah, we'll lie low for a while and then hit 'em with the bug de resistance…WHAT IS IT? WHAT THE...

Derek, my grad student, and I sipped our coffees. "So, you and Casey spent six months in the wilds of New Guinea studying the sexual mores of with the K'daw people," I said to him. "What have you learned?" "Well, the K'daw see semen as the embodiment of a man's dyo, his essence, his maleness, that he uses to dominate a woman." "Presumably by projecting his dyo into her?" Derek nodded. "The K'daw see women as the embodimen...

2021 Ben, an attending ER physician who had just come home after a sixteen-hour shift, crawled into bed next to his wife Sarah and kissed her. "Hey." "Hey. Rough shift?" Ben nodded. "The day before Christmas is always rough." "Well…" Sarah placed his hands on her naked midriff and breasts. "Smooth enough for you?" "Mmmm…just what the doctor ordered." There was a loud thump downstairs. Ben sat up. "What was that?" "Go have...

Nadine Rabinowitz pulled her grocery cart up the cement steps to her front porch. She was very proud that at 68 she was completely independent and able to fully look after her own needs. That included, she thought lewdly, those needs, what with her dear Harvey gone these 15 years, aided by The Device, as she called it, tucked away in the nightstand by her side of the bed in the main bedroom upstairs. She checked the mailb...

It all started one morning on my way to the express elevators to the 60th-floor-and-up. I was marveling at the bountiful ass of one of the secretaries for the firm that manages the tower (whom I knew from the WhatsApp groups for tower employees; her username was 'BigWoman') as I followed her into the building and through the lobby. She was wearing heels and tight, knit slacks. I was so engrossed in fantasizing about hot-d...

Near the bottom of the lake, Vari, and her sisters Mayani and Linh, gathered around their mother one last time before striking out on their own. Mother reminded them that while larger bodies of water, such as lakes and rivers, might be home to many naiads, each in her own cove, inlet or bend, smaller bodies of water, such as ponds or springs, might have only one. "You'll have to swim hard and choose quickly," Mother said,...

The wedding was in a month. Michael's mother and sisters were all at the dressmaker's being measured and fitted, and were then treating themselves to an overnight and spa day at a luxury hotel. His father was away at a church conference. Michael was glad to have the house to himself for the night. Michael and Grace had met at a church social barely a year before. They had begun dating almost immediately and announced thei...

Diari didn't mind the Romulan and Klingon making out to her left. They were too busy with each other to pay her any mind which suited her just fine. But the cowboy to her right was being a drunken pain-in-the-ass. "Oh, I just love the angel costume. It is so cool, especially the wings. They are so lifelike! Are those real feathers? And your halo, how do you get it to stay up there like that? You must have wires or somethi...