Elodie The club was a heartbeat on loudspeaker, bass rattling through her blood and bones as she moved like water on the crowded dance floor. That feeling she craved, permission to let go and just feel, block out the impersonal city streets, and let her body follow the flow of the music. It was an intoxicating primal need to be around people, dancing as close as physics would allow, and experience undiluted joy as one; th...

2060- USS Robinson Space Research vessel: Being on a ship with seven other people got boring at times, there was only so much time we could spend together before we got bored of each other's company. This mission was only supposed to last six months or at least that’s what we thought when we signed up. Even though I was single, at first, sexual relationships were completely off the table. Most of the crew were in committe...

~5~ As fast as we can, we bang and pound our way down the ventilation shaft. The noises made by my hands and knees are so loud that they drown out any sounds from outside I would otherwise be able to hear. We dent the flimsy metal as we crawl. Eventually, I slow down, listening for any noises around us. Surprisingly, I don’t hear anything from below, and I wonder if I should be relieved or more nervous. Alicia’s head arri...

The trees have yet to find the colors of fall, nor has the autumn chill found its way down from the mountains, but a new season is slowly on its way and with it, many memories of falls gone by. In memory of one such fall, it shall be stated that the State Fair was underway in Nashville when the following story took place. I was meeting Carmen, a Latin woman, whom I had worked with as an intern at Chapel Hill. We began see...

As a poor Filipina working in Japan, I didn't have many allies I could count on. The Japanese are polite people but are suspicious and cautious around those from the outside world. Japan, was an isolated island nation for thousands of years, and not that long ago opened up to civilizations beyond its beautiful shores. I understood this going into the situation I was putting myself in. That I'd be an island drifting among...

While Emma and Donald are enjoying the three weeks of their honeymoon, many new things are developing in their absence.  Sasha and Joseph are becoming closer and closer, but the real total change in things to come happens at Cape Cod. Since the Christmas interactions between Karen, Julie, Dorothy, and Maude, the four have been in regular contact with each other.  During one of their video chats, Karen and Julie learn more...

Chapter Ten: The fall of the wicked, the rise of the worthy. During the time that I was being trained as a Mistress Will asked me to marry him. He explained that he would be happy to sign a prenuptial agreement so that he wouldn’t get anything from me if, for any reason we should part. Then he went on to say that he was so in love with me and wanted us to stay together. I had to admit that I was crazy about him as well bu...

I do not know how it happened. All I wanted was a quiet drink and maybe someone to talk to, let off some steam. My wife had died just over a year ago and I was feeling depressed. We were together for 30 years!So after work I stopped into a small bar. Never been there before. I rarely drank, not use to it. Did not know it was a gay bar.There were maybe 7 customers inside, all male. Hell I did not think anything of it. They...