Slow Stories

After a split with his girlfriend, a young man is changed by a magical spell. Will this give him the fresh start he so desperately wants?

A Story in the Laresa World Universe
(Follow-up to "Deified", completing Nathifa's tale) Laresa and Nathifa are living a quiet, simple life among their newly adopted people, but Laresa is troubled. Recent events have eroded her ability to brush off that she is Djinn, and thus a slave. Being so close to Nathifa, only recently freed from the bonds of the Djinn herself, is a source of turmoil for Laresa as well. The village also faces danger as "Those who live outside the light" stalk the peaceful community.

An Uncle Bob Story
Chrissy wants her uncle to teach her how to do the massages her mother raves about. She watches him do one, but wants to know what it feels like too. She gets rubbed everywhere and things heat up even more when she and her brother see another kind of massage her uncle and their mother are doing. / (Reviews)

Bobby was a fourteen year old boy, who still took baths with his mother. He was used to it, and didn't think a thing about it. But the boys at school talked about things he didn't understand, and, when he asked his mother about them... bath time changed. Codes will be updated as the story progresses. / (Reviews)

The blackness was complete. Somehow I wasn't afraid, though I felt that I ought to be. I just couldn't manage it. It was odd. I wondered where I was; the last time I had been in this sort of situation had been once in a sensory deprivation chamber. Perhaps that's where I was. I tried to remember how I had come to be here. Nothing. I couldn't remember anything. I felt fear then, but it was distant, a small thing, inconsequential... / (Reviews)

A man driven to succeed finally discovers what he'd lost and retires to a remote island in the North Pacific where he lives by himself. A winter storm hits and after the storm, the man discovers an unexpected item on the beach. / (Reviews)

Poravuvu Island in the remote South Pacific is known for its lush tropical scenery and famous fertilizer mines, but what are they growing over two miles deep in a cave in far West Texas? More than a few inquiring minds want to know and their secret just might be worth killing for! / (Reviews)