Workplace Stories

A summer of hard work with a 2 hour subway commute. My uncle knew how to stick it to me real good. Then again, you never know what kind of perks you might find at the beach in the summer. It was the summer of the permanent erection.

An investigative reporter gains passage on an old tramp freighter that works the supply route from earth to the moon. Her well placed sources claimed an alien was hidden aboard. The lack of government news about the aliens and the rarity of their appearances in public made Carrie a curious woman. What she didn't know was the lonely owner of the spaceship had quite an interest in her too. Who wouldn't enjoy seeing a naked news reporter in person.

A Character Sketches of Sketchy Characters Story
"You know why we cahll heem Crahbbair? Eet eesn't because he wahs raised on a plahtfahrm 70 miles offshahre. Eet's because he uses zat wahtersahw he cahrries to peel ze ahrmour off of cybermercs ahnd tahke whaht he finds eenside. Tahbernahc! - Rogitien La Croix - Union Steward - Longshoreman's Union Chapter 539

Krish is on loan from India and decides to give her boss the gift that keeps on giving...

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
A scientist is granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to the Trappist system, home of the Brokers, where no human has set foot before. A seemingly simple expedition grows more complicated as he is forced to balance the interests of his government and those of the enigmatic aliens who have requested his help.

She'd been shopping and stopped off at the shoe store for her last stop. There she had felt playful, so she flirted shamelessly with the shoe salesman. But as she left the store and got to her car, the shoe salesman came up to her with more than flirting on his mind!