She’d seen herself in a shipwreck at the wild Aethen shore three days ago, was still waiting to recover from the look of her hair in decay. The creeping, quiet footprints of history leading the curious from ( Read more... )

This one's a classic. Now, I'll admit I lied a little. I DO enjoy rape fantasies. However - and this bias is one of the few I believe is both necessary, excusable and just good common sense - I don't believe that men should be encouraged to have them about women. I'm allowed to fantasize about being raped because I'm the one who has to live in fear ( Read more... )

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Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 66% Stability |||||| 23% Orderliness |||||||||| 36% Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 63% Interdependence |||||||||| 36% Intellectual |||||||||| 36% Mystical |||||||||||||| 56% Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Religious || 10% Hedonism |||||||||||||||||| ( Read more... )

An embrace after a play was something that was like Ghaeten himself- surprising, unorthodox, and in the end appropriate only because it was him. Jash reacted too late to pull him in as close as he would have liked, but made up for this by fencing Ghaeten in with two hands at the base of his back. “Theater is like love. It only happens sometimes, ( Read more... )

For the continued necessity to duck when entering an establishment’s door, Ghoure had a frown bristling under his facial hair. Alas, if you’d seen him before the inconvenience struck those many features sour, you probably wouldn’t have noticed an incredible alteration. He thundered in as big men do, wrapped from head to toe in the skins of a heifer ( Read more... )

The need has come to explain myself to somebody. First: I hear voices in running water. This communion-with-nature deal started out as a mystic and romantic charm, like being on the edge of a great secret. I’d be hiking along the willow flats or aspen groves next to your typical Wyoming bubbling stream - moss-covered stones, Lonicera waving in the ( Read more... )