Chapter 1: The Longest Chapter - continuedKadren swung her mace threateningly at one of the creatures.  It backed away a little, but did not retreat.  The other five paused, but then resumed their slow advance forward.  They looked like small, ugly (uglier than usual) goblins, and more feral than any goblin she had ever encountered.  These were the same sort of creature that Coj had already handily dispatched.  They made...

I don't usually put myself on stage at public events, but since a few of my friends are a lot more outgoing than me, they keep dragging me with them on occasion. Novella is one such friend. The unassuming librarian already organized a reading for me and hooked me up with interviewers, so when an erotic fair started, she tried hard to get us there in one form or another.Her idea was some form of public discussion about "po...

PrologueMagic was once abundant in the world: most agree with that.  What people disagree on is how to bring the magic back.Some say the magic will never return, that it is a punishment for past sins.  Some say the magic will return once the sins have been atoned for, or when wrongs have been righted.  Others say that magic can be made abundant again through effort and intelligence. Most say that the world was paradise wh...

In the first place, even Patti would have to admit that she had no idea the appointment to do an in-home massage was inside a nudist mobile home park. She only knew it was called Gulf Side Sunny Acres and that the woman who placed the call sounded like she was a senior citizen with a need for relief for a bad back and other issues with her knees and lower calves.She was not entirely certain that the sign at the entrance i...

Hi, my name is Charles. I was sixteen years old as was my step-sister Janice at the time this took place. My sister had three of her girlfriends over, Lynn, Sandra, and Melanie. All of them had been in our pool, swimming. They had got out of the pool and onto the deck to sun themselves in their bikinis when my friends Larry, John and I came out for a swim. This all took place in early July, almost ten years ago.My step-si...

The California visit left me nearly paralyzed by the death of a man I briefly knew. The cops interrogated me relentlessly as the only witness to the shooting. They were firm but not as harsh as you see in the movies. There were no good guy, bad guy policemen. They let Lucas and me go after grilling us for hours. I knew from my work, their idea was to wear down the witnesses and/or suspect until they changed their story. O...

"Gail, how do you know Brian is the police chief?" Grant, her husband, asked."He was talking to one of our attorneys at the office today. Apparently, Brian was testifying in a pedophile sex scandal. The girl is sixteen and the age of consent in our state is seventeen.""Are you involved in the case?""Not at this point. It looks pretty straight foreword. How stupid could the abuser be? The guy took pictures of him doing it...

I. Retrograde One of our old haunts, a repurposed manufacturing plant, still hums with life on breezy Saturday nights. Used to come here every weekend. Her great escape, a middle finger to her name. Detach from reality and just… exist. Breathe, ya’know? Be straight average for a change. Slip into the other side. She never said it, but I could tell she hated that bitter chaos circling in her head. That suffocating truth of...

I don't go to the cinema much, but for some reason my co-workers had given me a voucher for the local cineplex for my last birthday, so eventually me and my boyfriend Triss made it there to a screening. The movie was Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, which I thought we both would enjoy.It was the last show on a week night, so the cinema was practically deserted. We took our seats towards the back, behind the other dozen-or-s...

Now that you've met Chloe in Part One:Today I want to remind myself of how much I owe her for luring me into the circumstances wherein I met a beautiful man, a man who would change not only my life, but my basic conception of myself. I found him in the most unexpected of places. A place where Chloe brought me.SUMMER 2011. THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.I had just gotten home from work, put on my makeup and changed into some old,...

The craving tore at my bodyI could feel its heat, scorchingThe need wouldn’t ceaseMe, twirling, moaning, arching Sweat glistening on ivory skinMy heart racingPounding the beatLimbs and torsos embracing Energy buzzing and consumingThe beginning to the endBodies rocking and meldingLines and colors blend Mirrors surrounding, reflectingAn image encased in paintingsEvery desire taking partShowing Lust’s high yearnings Naked in...

Chloe McGill never led me astray. I was a fulltime, tax paying citizen of Astrayville long before I met her - I just wasn't that good at it. Then Chloe came along, and that girl has ended up getting me into some of the most outrageous adventures. I adore her. It must be made clear how much more she is than just a cohort in gangbangs and sexual trysts of all sorts and sizes. She is the most influential person in my life af...