"It was fifty years ago today." I paraphrase them, but the Beatles weren't at Woodstock. But I was. A spry, music-loving eighteen-year-old from Western Kentucky. Even my hippy parents wanted to go, but being elderly and in their forties (how my perspectiv...
Flying is deemed to be a man’s world but during the outbreak of World War Two, in nineteen thirty nine, the British Airforce found itself in need of an increasing number of planes and pilots. War, it seemed, was proving to be a social leveller in this res...
With months of watching and days of riding through the Great Plains,through the seasons and Christmas time, when snow was falling.It was now May 18th, just a couple of days before bank holiday Monday;even before then did Cindy Silver Buckle choose to run...
The trapdoor creaked open with the heavy resistance you would expect of a door long hidden. Jenna peered down into the dark room below. The smell of dust and stale air rose up to meet her, laced with something a little sweeter. The inky blackness of the r...
“Now this is an interesting character.” “Who’s an interesting character, John?” “The Prince of Wales, the one who became King Edward VII.” Agnes, my wife, lover, and witch smirked, “Yes he was. He threw some wild parties before he became king.” “What kind...
Already gone like yesterdayHaving you in my clutchesnever amounted to muchWhile present in the physical,your thoughts were always wanderingDare I think of your heartErratic elusive encountersConsistently keep me chasingSanctuary found only in memories;for...
Theia was at peace as she knelt on the cobbled stone floor of her father’s home. Her gaze drifted without conscious direction, following her flickering shadow as it elongated toward the wall of the tiny abode. Without the slightest tremble, she held her h...
Melissa woke slowly, she felt the body heat of another, stronger than Desire's heat, with which she was familiar with. The heat of another body, a hotness of flesh not human, but divine. As her head cleared of the dreams and visions her sleep brought her....
Bram Stoker was right, well almost. Vampires do exist, but not as Stoker or popular culture had led people to believe. Vampires are not blood sucking fiends, well not really, and we can walk around in sunlight. The original vampire has never been tracked,...
The rain fell at a steady pace, hitting the windows like pellets. In the war room, there was once again confusion and anger. What had happened? How did the best-laid plans fail to do the job? The German high command was furious; someone would get shot for...
“Jacob, Christopher, get out. You’re going to make a mess of this place,” my mother bellows at my twin brothers. She is working overtime trying to prepare for my sister Jane’s wedding and expects us all to follow suit. “Yes mama,” both giggle as they repl...
One of those social gatherings that occur occasionally that you’re really not a part of but decide to attend anyway. More like a moon orbiting an outer satellite than a major planet closer to the star. Still after not deleting the invite I figured that th...
His mother's undisputed darling by Rex AntiochThe following document was discovered among a miscellaneous collection of uncatalogued papers in a pile of dusty boxes in a cupboard in the Psychology Department Library of a major English university.It appear...
I'm a 20 year old college student attending Boston College. As my username reads I have never really been good with love or sex for the matter, and having all these people around me fucking their brains out doesn't really help either. Well to the point of...
