'There's a strange thrill in falling for someone who could ruin you with just a smile.' But with Rhea, even her smirks carried shrapnel--sharp-edged and deliberate, like she wanted to see what bled. She was the kind of woman who made everything burn brighter, hotter--especially the parts of Vikram that should've stayed numb. The parts that knew better. The parts that had buried desire under logic and self-preservation lon...

Chapter 7: The Poker Game Madison blew up flotation devices on the bottom of the round circular table she was holding and threw it into the middle of the hot tub. It was conveniently sized so that it nicely fit between everyone. She then set the deck of waterproof playing cards in the middle of the table. “I think everyone knows what we’re playing,” Madison grinned. “Yes!” Jason exclaimed, giving a fist pump. Morgan and K...

Chapter 4: The Party Chloe was glad she and her parents could work something out for her birthday. Before going out to what ended up being more of an early dinner, they had given her their big birthday gift: a brand-new computer for college. Her father had proudly listed off all kinds of statistics about its memory, graphics, and processor speed, which she didn’t fully grasp but that he clearly found impressive. Regardles...

Chapter One: The Invitation Chloe slowly sipped on her mocha sweet coffee and sighed, watching as the brown of the coffee and the white of the cream danced around each other in the cup. It seemed just like Madison to set up a time to meet and then be late for her own meeting. Although, Chloe didn’t mind it all that much. She had nothing else better to do at the moment, and it allowed her to observe her surroundings, as sh...

There was only the need. We spawned beneath the surface of the water, spreading out unseen through the oceans. Our thoughts melded into one incessant murmur, muted and toneless when the needs of our flesh dominated the hive mind. I needed to ejaculate. There was nothing else until I did. Our bodies were these slippery appendages, a mass of tentacles and a small, bulbous head. Not much more than we needed. Once our kind ha...

Be me, Thomas Murphy, a seventeen-year-old high school senior living in the California Bay Area. It was the first day of my senior year of wrestling, and Coach Barton had me getting all the novices organized. According to Coach, as one of the top-ranked heavyweights in the state, I was in a “Leadership Position.” Apparently, being a leader meant I had to do administrative work. Note to self, being in charge can suck. As I...

Autumn reaches the town of Wayfair early, the trees intermittently turning shades of yellow and red, the air accompanied by a biting cold despite summer ending not five weeks ago. As Karina walks home from her shift at the local diner, she daydreams about the vacation to Florida she and her mother will take next month - a place where it never snows. She’ll be turning eighteen, and her mother promised they would celebrate...

She rushed to the local Whole Food Store to grab her dinner after a long day at work. It wasn’t normal for her to work twelve hours but since her assistant quit two days ago, it was obvious that this was going to be the new normal and Michelle hated it! Her crisp white shirt neatly covered her amble bosom and her size ten, form fitting, cranberry red Tahari suit was a stark contrast to her glum gray mood that was immediat...