Leonidas sighed as he hefted his pack. The noonday sun seared the back of his neck as he trudged wearily home. As a soldier, one would assume he'd be used to the constant marching, but marching towards something was very different from marching away from it. Ever since he was a boy, he had always loved the thrill: the fire coursing through his veins when he marched towards battle. There was an ancient magic there, perhaps...

Paris, 1962 Inside Bohemia After Dark, patrons squinted through an ashen haze at the nightclub's featured combo. Stained indigo under mood lighting, a quintet of animated ebony carvings whisper-shouted wordless, haunting languages. Cigarette embers winked; wine glasses clinked; heads nodded with appreciation as notes jitterbugged in a tempo hurricane. The tenor man dismounted from the rollercoaster rush of a melody he'd r...

“Miss Vulnerability! it’s so good to see you,” said Index, the bespectacled, green-skinned host behind the front desk of the Moaning Mask Club. “You can call me Billie,” Billie reminded him. “Billie, of course. Will you be participating tonight?” “That’s what I’m here for.” “Usual offerings and preferences?” Index asked, hovering his pen over an open page of the guestbook. “I’m in a punishing mood,” Billie confessed, remo...

The lithe brunette chipped to the counter with that year’s Christmas present to herself – which she saved for first because everyone else could wait. It was love at first sight, days before her store visit, when she discovered the naughty undergarment online. The model’s ass wasn’t as nice as hers, of course. “Ooh, these are popular,” said the blonde clerk, whose nose stud gleamed in the store’s bright lights. “I can’t im...

“We must leave.” Christóforos trembled, holding the dragon’s head between his hands. That was a hard enough task in itself, truth be told, considering just how much larger than him the dragon was. Although he had cared for Re for many years – it had to be going on fifteen years by that point in his life – it was still a surprise to him, sometimes, just how much larger the dragon was than him. The size of a large draft hor...

“Mmm…” The big, green dragon rolled over in his sleep, comfortable in the large, homely cave that Re shared with his much smaller, human partner, Chris. On his back, he seemed to draw someone with him, along his green-scaled hide, though Re had to blink back to full wakefulness to understand just what was happening. As Re came back to full wakefulness, he groaned, licking his chops, tail swinging lazily back and forth acr...

I was trying to get down a steep hillside instead of walking several miles around the ridge to get to the same destination, when I slipped and fell. Hard. I started sliding down the embankment and by the time I ended up at the bottom, my dress was up around my armpits and my ass felt like someone had spanked me with a porcupine. I hopped up quickly, no terrible harm done, no protruding bones, and started on my way again....