Slow Stories

Richards Enterprises
Elspeth was born to Boston's elite. She never expected to find a place and a purpose beside a slouching nobody from New Jersey. Ain't life a bitch?

A story set in and around Hanging Out
I really like my best friend, Jess, but she only likes girls. Our attractive new neighbor likes both of us, and she’s also a bit different. This could be the start of summer sexyfuntimes—if I can get over Jess, that is. [CW: mind the tags]

An accident leaves six orphans behind, 3 males and 3 females. The oldest male/female pair of step-siblings are 18. They have to act as parents for the other two M/F pairs of step-siblings, aged 15 and 9. Of necessity, the new parents share the big bedroom, and loving shenanigans follow. Each 15 year old finds an outside partner; new irresistible romantic and sexual feelings can't be denied. More passionate adults become active family members. Active with each other?!

A Pathways to Submission Story (5)
While on holiday with her girlfriends in Italy, the naturally submissive Rebecca befriends the dominant Heidi, and her two indentured maids. Soon Heidi offers Rebecca financial support to help her study belly dancing at a dance academy in France. The only snag is that Rebecca must agree to be an indentured servant to Heidi's family for six months on completion of her study. Heidi's two maids seem happy with the arrangement, but Rebecca isn't so sure.

In a shop thick with oil and silence, a clockmaker discovers a key that rewinds time in precise increments. His apprentice, Lira, turns it with him. Loops stretch. Desire deepens. But the clocks begin to falter—and so do they. Ticks blur. Scars remain. Moments once shared begin to slip. Each turn takes something: breath, memory, steadiness. What remains when time breaks around you, and you can’t remember who you were before?

After escaping the ADVENT controlled city, our hero and his alien lover find themselves among the ranks of XCOM, a rag-tag band of soldiers and resistance fighters who are bent on driving the occupying forces off the planet. What will their success mean for the aliens who will be stranded on Earth, and how will the couple adapt to life after the war? (X-COM fanfiction)

A Tale from the Western Continent
After losing his eyes to a medusa, dark elven assassin Gheeran has a major crisis of faith. No eyesight, no way to ply his trade, no future in his band of cut-throat outcasts - what's a guy like him to do? As it turns out - a lot!

A retired army officer pursues a mature woman after ending his disastrous marriage.

It's a song, no that's not what I mean - it's inspired by a song. It's pretty obvious which song it is. (Well it's obvious to me, but then I wrote it - the story not the song.) Read the story and drop me a line if you think you know what the song is. I'll tell you if you're right - not much of an incentive to read the story I know, but then it just goes to show how desperate I am!