It was a dark but clear night and I was getting a lift home with 2 post grad students in their crappy old car. For some reason we were taking a roundabout route and going over a large hill outside of town. When we got to the top of the hill we pulled off the road and stopped, with the driver getting out and chatting to some guy on the side of the ( Read more... )

I was on holiday with a family and looking after their 3 young daughters. They were nice kids, ranging from about 8 to about 12 in age, and we had adventures ( Read more... )

I was with a friend, and she'd bought a house in a nice part of town. Naturally it was up near the top of a hill, you definitely needed the hand brake when parking here. We were by her car chatting about something when a guy came by asking if we knew of someone. We didn't, but asked why. Some person from here had sent someone he knew a letter, ( Read more... )

A friend and I were in a book store in Japan. It was an older style building, the panes of glass were small for one thing. My friend couldn't find the book he wanted and I suggested that we try Tokyo instead. He agreed to that and after waiting for the corridor to clear I opened a gate into Tokyo and we went through. We came out by a grey ( Read more... )

I was part of a team testing 5 different types of motorcycles. The first test was a simple linear obstacle course, a good test of their off road abilities. For some reason I wasn't really happy with my choice of bike, it, dunno. I came upon a group of Mazda riders who'd stopped by a rock outcropping and were having a drink. They pulled a ( Read more... )

I was a drow youngling, maybe 10 years old, maybe 15, dunno. There were 5 of us, 3 females, 2 males, and we were in what looked to be hastily put together office space. We were sitting on plastic chairs on the side of a corridor and humans milled around us going about their business. We didn't really know each other, and we were from different ( Read more... )

I was sailing up an inlet in my nice sail boat and was just going past a sandbar covered in scrabby long grasses when I noticed a young woman wearing blue standing on it, looking rather uncertain. So I parked my boat and went to have a chat with her, and she was rather nice, and somewhat clingy. I wondered what was up. I didn't have to wonder ( Read more... )

I was at some trendy street market buying spices. I bought a couple handfulls of some spice, small red and green spheres and the lady wrapped it in a cone of paper, held together with wooden sticks. She apologised that it wasn't her normal wrapping but it was the best she could do at the moment. I told her that it would be ok, paid and left for ( Read more... )

We were inside a giant metal shell, it was like living in a cavern, the walls and roof the colour of dark steel. I was a mage, and reasonably powerful, a mid level worker in this society. The rich had it all, the entire society was set up to support them. The poor had it really bad, you didn't want to be one of those. But for us in the middle ( Read more... )

It was an open area, not flat but gently undulating. Short grass covered the land and a menagerie of animals did their thing. Somehow 2 rabbits had gotten in though, and I was elected to deal with them. I went hunting with my forearm mounted crossbow. I nailed the first rabbit easily enough, but the second was a hassle :( It got into a fight ( Read more... )