"Without you, time drags on interminably." Since I'm behind schedule on Hacker Goddess - a new story in the Geek Goddess universe - I decided to post this flash story I originally wrote for the 2003 ASSTR Anniversary Party. Enjoy.
A tale of a young girl, a promising actress, who following HS graduation heads for the Big Apple, seeking fame and fortune. Unfortunately Amy falls into the hands of her "Uncle John" who leads her into sexual debauchery as well as fame and fortune.
Two brothers farmed potatoes together. One had two daughters and, because Covid prevented them from dating, he felt it was his duty to prepare them to be good wives. His own wife agreed. The other brother had a son and a daughter, and whey they found out what their cousins were doing, they felt like they should participate in getting ready for marriage, too. The result was two families engaged in a taboo lifestyle, which worked as well as the farming did. And the farming worked very well indeed.
So far, fourteen-year-old Lily's sexual experiences have been limited to solitary nocturnal explorations and some unrequited crushes on both boys and girls at her school. When she first meets Zoe and Liam Mitchell, she's thrilled by both their beauty and their uninhibited sexuality. If only she could be more like them...
Alex has always lived a quiet life with his family in a peaceful neighborhood, his days blending into one another with a predictable rhythm. But when his estranged aunt, Allie, moves back into the neighborhood after their grandfather's passing, his world is turned upside down.
The green-skinned zombies appeared a year ago, and Ethan Cross has been surviving in the middle of this hellhole of a world by himself since that day. For being a survivor in a zombie apocalypse, he's not doing too badly. But he still wants news of what's happening in the outside world. A scavenging trip to an old electronics store in search of a radio brings him in contact with something he didn't think he'd ever see again: A woman.