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March 19, 2024
Fantasy Stories Wondering Monk

Just My Imagination

The alarm clock went off and started playing an awful tune. Tom opened his eyes and closed them back, squinting. He reopened one eye and stood up to stop the torture. The phone was on the desk, in the furthest spot from the bed. Although he changed his way of…
March 19, 2024
Science Fiction Stories Ocelotlzin

Earth Is Dead

Recording… It doesn't matter who I was; I probably lived a long time ago, and I am now just a voice someone added to the audio-visual records. What is essential is the recollection of events that lead to the current state. So, a little history needs to be…
March 08, 2024
Flash Fiction Benoit

Some Enchanted Evening

It was a rugby tackle with tears: Chrissy burst in, sobbing and babbling, hugging James. Her face was all wet, eyes wild. What…? My parents split up, Dad has moved in with his boyfriend and I cannot join them. I am shut out. I have lost my dad. Torrent of…
March 08, 2024
Horror Stories Marvel Chukwudi Pephel

In The Hands Of My Legs

The car pulled up in front of the large salon. The neon sign, that sexy broad thing, on the salon'sroof read "Mr. Gil's All-night Salon". The exhaust pipe of the car was pumping solid smoke, theswirls moving from the car and towards the salon.…
March 07, 2024
Mystery Stories Vanessa Leigh Giles

Casualty of Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Chapter 1 Until Death do us Part ‘Ring, ring!’. I answered the telephone and asked, “Hello, good evening. Who’s this? “Hello.” This is Dr. Smith from Red Cross hospital. “Is this Mr. Locke, John?”, he asked, hesitantly scratching his bald head. “Yes, doctor.…
March 07, 2024
Crime Stories Robert Pook

Bar Room Trigger

Another return journey on footpaths so familiar. He strides across each crack in each paving stone. Regular loose drain covers sidestepped. Mapping long ago mapped in Richard’s desolate mind. His pace hastened by the sight of the oncoming storm. Quickening…
March 04, 2024
Horror Stories Ano Chinemerem

Sanctity

Where should I begin? I could begin by telling you about this comely boy, whom every notable person around the streets agrees his smile could charm the bills off one. Between one smile, there was his goodness, his dreams and humanity—a little far ahead?— but…
March 04, 2024
Flash Fiction Emanuel Diaz

Et Mortui Partium

As Rafael stepped out into the rain, it wasn't the ordinary drops that fell from the sky. Instead, it was a storm of souls, each one taking the form of shimmering jewelry as it cascaded toward the ground. Rubies, diamonds, and sapphires twinkled amidst the…
February 29, 2024
Poetry Jing Li Ava

London

‘Am I in London?’ "I am." Where is Elizabeth? Happy living story All of your chapter Bounlance joy Please my heart Power hand Wise mind Our baby Vow vow Love all love Miss I miss Endless wonder Bring us together Love all love Miss I miss For everything My…
February 29, 2024
Flash Fiction Rob Pook

Life Sentence of The Smith

Born nine months after his country won the World Cup.A child prodigy.Cast off at age twenty-four.Husband, father, emigree, away on the other side of the world.The blue-collar life.The dreams of success.The search for fulfillment.The long years of empty…
February 29, 2024
Mystery Stories Joshua Lowther

The Operator

Jason looked over to his right, his eyes barely able to focus themselves on the subject of his attention. His neck ached terribly from the strenuous movement. He was tired. The captain’s gaze came to rest on the rookie sonar operator sitting tense at his…
February 29, 2024
Flash Fiction Salvatore Difalco

The Chute

At dusk, we left our unit with a soft pink bundle. I carried it through the wet streets and into the black woods. I said I’d take it all the way, the bundle, but that we had to drop it in together. My wife’s green eyes flashed. “Don’t make me do that.” I…

As we enter the seaport guided by shadows and lights used by boats and ships to enter and leave the harbor, we pass a series of boats tied to their docks, the sounds of ship horns and the clanking of channel markers fill the night air.  Leaving the seaport’s harbor, we visit the ever populated city of New York, where tall buildings and crowds of civilians move through the streets like waves in an ocean.

In this city lives a man named Jay, a 28 year old student who attended Queensborough Community College with a slim build, dark hair and metal frame glasses. He has a friend named Alexis , who he met when Jay was visiting the American Museum of Natural History to write a research paper on the Paleo- ecology of the Green River Formation. She’s a 33 year old woman who volunteers as an exhibit explainer, working at the fossil halls. Jay’s mother was staying with her friend Carl, while he was at home with his girlfriend, working on publishing his paper to a scientific magazine.

Alexis has a friend named Lilith, who is married to a lawyer named Gary. Lilith is a 35 year old woman who is tall and curvaceous, with flowing black hair. She has an intense love for wild animals and got a job at the Coney Island Aquarium as a docent, studying the biology of aquatic vertebrates during her training and educating the visitors on preservation and conservation of habitats in which these species thrive in. Lilith has loved everything about her life, except her lawyer husband who is a business lawyer, who views his wife as the barefoot and pregnant type of a  person, who must submit to him. An abusive tyrant her husband was and he tends to harbor a traditionalist mentality when it comes to women, even his own wife. Jay and Alexis received an email from an editor from Discover Magazine named Elisa. The email described the submission guidelines for submitting articles into publication.

Alexis also considered changing the title of the article to make it more “people friendly”, keeping the scientific knowledge written as the information as taught by scientists, while also adding other information to it and making the article more accessible for laymen and museum visitors to enjoy. Alexis and Jay decided to promote their work as a  book on paleoecology, and submitted the work to a publisher who specializes in books on nature and science. Later, Jay told his mother all the good news about his book. “Ma, I have some good news today? He said smiling. “What’s the good news? his mother asked. I just promoted my new book and submitted it for publishing” Jay said. “Well, that’s great, it good to see you doing something you love, I always supported you” she said. After visiting his mother, Jay and Alexis went to see Lilith at

Bellevue Hospital to make an appointment with Dr. Gonzalez, her psychiatrist... that’s right, Lilith, because of the stress of her hazardous relationship, she requested the help of Dr. Maria Gonzalez, her psychiatrist who specializes in relationships and family services. Dr. Gonzalez asked Lilith to come and join her in a roundtable discussion with other abused women to talk about their own relationships and share solutions to problems. “Alexis, I’m not embarrassed to say, that I don’t hate men at all, and I ‘m not a feminist , but I just hate my husband... he is an asshole and kills my vibe in any way possible, and he’s very abusive to me mentally... a toxic mix of destruction and sexiness... he is” she said. “I know is hard, but you’re trying to do the best to keep from breaking down emotionally and physically as you can Lilith, especially with these psychiatrist visits with Dr. Gonzalez... I really hope they help. ” Alexis replied. “ Yes it does.” Lilith replied.

As night fell upon the city, Lilith was asleep, having visions of her husband’s abusive nature of a history of beatings, forced sex and berating, which made her angry, and she thought to herself that she took a trip. Lilith went along to seek her prey, the alpha male bastards she called “unsavory”. And so, she stole through 42nd street pursuing men who reminded Lilith of her husband Gary. As she came closer and began to ease herself in on her enemies, only to find them inside sex clubs and prostitute rings. Lilith witnessed a young man beating his girlfriend in the face, with a tire iron.  When the man left her, he strolled into the alley where Lilith waited for him. As a woman bent on vengeance,  she began attacking him with claws and fangs rapidly as he screamed, where Lilith began to cannibalize the man’s body from his head to his toes. Hours later, with the woman lying on the ground bleeding from her head, Lilith then returned to her and escorted her to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance, where she would receive medical attention for her wounds. The horrific images of abuse have been clamoring in Lilith’s mind, had long subsided... At least for now.

The next morning after her harrowing ordeal, it was time for Lilith to go to work, with a few hours of rest, she managed to get to the Aquarium and decided to take Jay with her. During his visit, Jay watched with amazement as Lilith showed her people skills as an educator, in teaching visitors every aspect of vertebrate ecology in aquatic habitats and it can be preserved.  After she was done, Lilith decided to pick Jay’s brain about his experiences at the aquarium.“What was the training program like at the Aquarium, after you graduated Jay? She asked. “ I can say with great certainty, that the program was an eye opener, being that it was a 6 week course on conservation, zoology and habitat ecology” he said.   “Were there any homework assignments that you had to do?  Asked Lilith.  “Yes, participants were responsible for doing an assignment each week, plus a research paper on an animal at the aquarium.” Jay replied. “But, how did you get the job, Lilith? “I was trained as a biologist at the Bronx zoo during an ambassador program, then I was contacted by the Aquarium’s volunteer coordinator for an interview for the job I have now.”  So, what do we do after you get off tonight? Jay asked. “We can go to a hotel later, I have money saved up for rainy days...it’s enough to get a room for the night” . “Sure, why not? Jay asked. “Because I’m bored with my abusive husband and I wanna bang one out a few times” Lilith  said.  Make sure, you take your medication, I wouldn’t want you to go psycho”. “No need, I already took some this morning”. Lilith replied.

At the hotel, things were getting hot and steaming between Lilith and Jay, as they frolicked in the hotel bed naked, exploring all positions of sexual nature, even those her husband wouldn’t even try. The night ended with both of them spooning one another, while Lilith, still sweating from the vigorous sex, felt the tip of Jay’s erected penis stroking her buttocks.  Lilith touched his penis again was immersed in its still erect form... she wasn’t going to let this penis go to waste... so Lilith placed a condom on the tip and began to perform fellatio on him, before Jay turned her over performed anal sex on her and then in one last effort, he ejaculated inside the crease of her buttocks. However, Lilith wasn’t through, she grabbed the back of his head and opened her legs and positioned his head and tongue into her waiting vagina, and Jay laps her clitoris as she began to orgasm. During a wet night of steamy sex in a hotel suite, things can still get dangerous.

After her vigorous night of pleasure, Lilith still had a score to settle with her husband. Lilith returned home without any sight of Gary, apparently he was finishing up a trial. So, she looked for a suitable weapon to defeat Gary with. She then remembered her uncle was a research chemist working for a lab at Columbia University, and he wanted to study the uses of red phosphorus- an explosive substance found in meth on certain materials. The funny thing is...he left a bottle of it in the linen closet.  She also got some G. H. B - a date rape drug, which some of her college friends used once, and carefully dipped her husband’s favorite chocolate in some red phosphorus, while putting the G. H. B in his wine.

Lilith drove Jay back to the Bronx, and as he was about to leave to go to the apartment, she called him over to the car and told him if he wanted to get away for a while, just call her up and she’ll come running. Jay thanked her and said she can get him anytime and they’ll hang out together, whenever she gets off work. Lilith leaned over to Jay, kissed him and slipped her phone and cell number in his pocket. Meanwhile... when Gary returned home, he was expecting to find his wife in bed. His jealous thoughts brimmed at the notion of her with another man. However, Lilith did care about him enough to leave his chocolate and wine. As he took a sip of it, Gary noticed it tasted funny. Within a few hours, Gary found himself feeling dizzy from drinking too much wine. So, he decided to take a bite of chocolate, unaware of the mysterious substance that it was dipped into.

Suddenly, Gary’s jaw ignited the weird substance and ... his jaw exploded, hemorrhaging the cerebral cortex and causing him to bleed out.  Before long, bits of teeth and the lower jaw fell to the floor and the abusive Gary soon expired.

 

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