Our ageing retiree used to be a magistrate, handing down sentences to juvenile offenders! So, it's more than a little provoking to find a couple of petty criminal girls helping themselves to his garden, casually sunbathing!
If you had only a few months to live, how would you mess with people? Would you screw them over or help them out? "In Xanada did Kublai Khan build a stately Palace..."
Experimental fiction I wrote for a class.
As the new High Priest, Glurg's duty is to pierce each virgin's heart with his stone knife. But the very first virgin he encounters has a different idea.
A guy and his family's, life is turned upside down, when he plans a little surprise for his wife one day, and he finishes up getting an even bigger surprise himself! How he handles the situation at the time and how his feelings change over the following few years, although he doesn't discuss his feelings directly. Its another one of those, "You don't know what you've got (or what you will miss), until you ain't not got it no more!" stories!