“Babe, you forgot your mask; here.” I was about to argue, mostly confused for the moment. I had just settled on the train to head home, and a warm body had just sat down next to me. My focus was on my phone, setting up my after-work-train playlist; it took me a moment for the thought to cross my mind: was the comment towards me? “--Huh?” That was all I could get out when I looked up and over at the man sitting next to me....

Often. “You make me feel so alive that it drives me to kill. Not out of wrath but out of envy for others taking the precious and vital breath meant only for us,” he whispered, his stubble grazing mine. I gasped as his lips claimed mine. “So you see, you should fuck me so I don’t go out and make a mess.” Trove said things like that. “There’s a problem with that,” I countered. And meant it. “What problem?” His words frowned...

The coast off of the North African Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco in 1803 was as dangerous a place as anywhere on earth. It was known as the Barbary Coast and was a very lucrative business for Pirates. Capturing merchant ships and enslaving or ransoming their crews provided the rulers of these nations with wealth and naval power. Although the majority of pirates in history have been men, there w...

My name is John, and I'm twenty-one years old and live with my parents outside the Bay Area of California. I grew up here, and my private or sex life has not been vanilla. I had some adventures with some cheerleaders that went out of control. I was able to get back to everyday life for a while. This story is about how I disappeared for some time without anyone knowing. We lived in a house in an older neighborhood. Some of...

“Well, well... Look what trickster has been outsmarted at long last.” The coyote turned her head from left to right, handcuffed to the post at the bottom of the four-poster bed. She’d been relaxing in her flat, a city home that her high-paying job afforded her the luxury of, when her world had gone dark, a rag clamped over her muzzle as her vision dipped and swayed. She should have been ready, but she’d never even heard t...

He suddenly had a fistful of her hair to make her cooperate. She was whimpering into his unsympathetic eyes and curling under his body towering over her. When he asked her again if she’d be quiet, she nodded quickly and sniffled. He let go of her hair and ran his fingers through it instead. Then he cupped his hand on her cheek. He was smiling. His eyes were still squinty and mean so she thought this was a sadistic smile....

Excerpt from The Miami Herald - "Co-Eds Still Missing" Police remain baffled over the mysterious disappearance of over a dozen college-aged students. The case received unusual notoriety after the release of one eerie viral video, showing a naked woman clutching a unique species of octopus, walking hypnotically into the water. Police Chief Dan Patrick commented on the growing online sensation. "So far... we are unable to a...

Shauna stood outside the Bed and Breakfast, looking up and down the main street. She looked for moments frozen in time and tried to capture the memories that she should have. The street looked narrower than in her memories and the buildings smaller. "But that might be the perspective of a child over an adult." She thought. Down south, a row of small shops that seemed to have evaded time brought back a few memories. Turnin...

I fold the note you most recently gave me and slide it into the box with the others.  You and I have come to a point in our relationship that you’re asking me for the things you want and need from me instead of greedily accepting what I give you.  Truth be told, you’ve come much further than I had ever imagined you would when we first started playing together. Your masochistic side is heavier than my sadistic one and alth...

My name is Kat, and I was in my mid-thirties working at a boring office job in North London. Days rolled into one without anything exciting happening. I lived alone in a two-bedroomed flat. I go to work nine till five each day, I leave my flat at 08:30 am, get on a tube at 08:45 am. And then arrive at work at 08:55 am. I just answered calls all day.One day, after another boring day at work, I was walking towards the tube...

Grace was walking to her car. Classes were out for the summer. She had finished some last minute administrative paper work that needed to be turned in to officially end the semester. The papers were in and she was free until mid-August. Over two months for her to do whatever she wanted. Free from the rigid schedule she had to keep. Free from the immature college students that thought they knew it all, or knew they did not...

It sounded easy, but wait till I tell you. Me and Jake O’Leary had just finished up a short-time bid for a bad-check beef at Warm Springs, a min-security bucket in Carson City, and through some scams we’d scraped together close to three thousand bucks, but we needed seven thou to buy into a major credit-card grift. We brainstormed and cogitated, trying to think of a way to top up our funds, and then Jake mentioned Benny L...

I don't have dreams very often. Well, if I do I don't remember them. There is one dream I remember quite vividly though, and it got me hot. Really, really hot. And wet. But no, I won't get ahead of myself. I'll start at the beginning.     Late one night sleep had been avoiding me for a long time and I was getting frustrated with tossing and turning. I was in a state between awake and asleep when suddenly I heard a scratch...