Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 18 -- Mistakes Were Made
We were almost to the stairs leading down to the deck with the dance club when I felt the ship lurch, causing me to grip Brian's arm even tighter as my compromised balance sent me wobbling, with even more associate...
2023-06-01 18:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding the right someone has never been easy, whether you're a sailor in the 18th Century South Seas, a Viking raiding 13th Century Russia, a white South African conscript, or a lonely farm kid in mid-20th Century America. But it is possible to find your happy ending through the applications of ...
2023-06-01 01:04:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Probably mid to late June.
Hugs,
Erin
Photo Credit Alialka from Deposit Photo
2023-05-27 02:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 17 -- Belle of the Ball
I looked at the glass in my hand and frowned.
To be honest, I've never been much of a drinker. Sure, I'd had a wild night here or there with my friends, or the occasional wine cooler to wind down at the end of a long day at home, but I was normally a 'o...
2023-05-25 04:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Copyright Melanie Brown © 2023
“The Alliance loves these little hellholes just a little too much,” complained Corporal Perkins for the twenty-seven millionth time. Or almost, anyway.
“Knock it off, Perkins!” I exclaimed. Several of us were gathered in the PX, trying ...
2023-05-22 22:55:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I made it to my room and sort of threw myself at the bed, pretty much like I’d been doing for fifteen years. Big mistake. My bra gave up holding things in on the first bounce and my new accessories assaulted me. I almost turned into a joke punchline with two black eyes before I got my hands up ...
2023-05-19 22:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 3
Edited by: Julia Miller
I walked into my room, kicking my shoes and throwing myself on the bed. It's not fair, I never wanted to be a girl, but it doesn't seem like I have a choice.
The gem was part of a much bigger artifact, something legendary that no one believed to...
2023-05-19 17:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
Melanie E.
Chapter 16 -- The Golden Goose
There were many things that had me on edge Thursday morning.
There was the makeup I'd spent half an hour getting right. Not that most people would consider that too terribly long for cosplay makeup -- and it wasn'...
2023-05-18 06:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt dazed and sour. Being on the football field wasn’t as dangerous and scary as the thought of the sort of social gymnastics people like Joanna excelled at. Lee Frick had done some kind of verbal judo on me, and now I had a date to go see a movie with him. At the drive-in! In his van!
Chapter 15 -- Final Fitting
"Stop it."
"I'm not doing anything."
"Well, stop it anyway," I said, glaring at Brian for a brief moment before turning my attention back to the road. He still had the same stupid smirk plastered across his face he'd been wearing when I'd gotten back ...
2023-05-11 01:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hi, Pete,” said Joanna, her face visible from under the door. She twiddled her fingers at me in a cheerleader wave.
“How did…” I started to ask, but Megan interrupted.
“When the guys couldn’t find you, we knew where you must be.” Her head was now visible beside ...
2023-05-04 23:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 14 - Maria
*Bzzzzzzzzt*
I released the buzzer and waited, hoping the third time was the charm. I was about to hit it again when I heard a click, and the speaker next to the panel of buttons came to crackly life.
"Door's open, c...
2023-05-04 01:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Ch.2
We arrived at Gail’s house, and she stopped in front of the iron gate before the gate opened automatically. Gail then pulled the car through the gate and stopped. We both left the car, and Gail handed the keys to the security guard.
I was always amazed...
2023-05-03 23:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Emerald Gem of Wisdom
My name is Jason Carter, or at least it was. I used to be a boy like any other boy who had just turned 18. As I look down on my body, I ask myself how did this happen?
It was two weeks ago; my grandma had just passed away a couple of days before that. We went...
2023-05-01 05:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The room got rowdy and stayed rowdy. I cringed when they cheered the footage showing me taking down Ginger.
“Stomp him! Kick him!” They screamed, even though the film showed me bringing down Bulldog #17 in a textbook clean tackle.
“Way to go, Petey!” they shouted, and someone ...
2023-04-29 05:10:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 13 -- Ol' Smokey
The best-laid plans never seem to survive contact with reality, and so it was with our day at the park.
We had just finished taking a spin on Swamp Thang -- think teacups, but with swamp boats, faster, and the whole ...
2023-04-27 02:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It took nearer three hours than two to reach Latterman Village, in part because Clark belatedly discovered that the easy way to move an unbalanced load in a wheelbarrow is to pull, not push. With Mr. Latterman packed into the bowl of the ‘barrow, and Clark between the arms in leading position, ...
2023-04-26 04:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Dad arrived home while I was outside playing pickle with Linda with Donna as the girl in the middle. We kept the game kind of low-key so Linda could keep up and make a few catches of my soft throws.
Donna sneered at me at one point. “You still throw like a girl,” she said.
I snort...
2023-04-23 05:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake demonstrated how well Baby Blue could scoot, taking us out the back way from his neighborhood and joining the highway partway up the long straight climb north of town that led to a series of switchbacks. The noise from the open windows became a roar as Jake accelerated up the long pull.
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Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 12 -- Bog Bottom
It took me a while to figure out where we were heading. I'd lived in Bayonet for almost a decade, but I'd grown up further north, closer to Alexandria. Brian, on the other hand, had lived his entire life relatively local, ...
2023-04-20 06:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We're a bit behind getting this up here.
2023-04-19 07:34:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Maryanne's new book about Heroes and Helpers will be out from DopplerPress later this week, barring accidentally knocking the Earth off-axis. Here's my first attempt at a cover.
2023-04-17 16:09:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I cut up veggies for salad, we eat a lot of rabbit food as Dad sometimes calls it, but both Donna and I are teenagers and no zits between us. I love raw carrots, and you can make a wonderful salad just from turnips and spinach. We had more choice for this one though, carrots, red onions, cucumber...
2023-04-16 05:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 11 -- B Minus
On any normal day, someone walking into my bedroom would be greeted by a whole lot of boring. Plain white walls, in deference to not wanting to re-paint when we eventually move out. Twin bed with no headboard, a burnt orange comforter and matching checked pillowcases (...
2023-04-13 03:14:06 +0000 UTC View Post
1.
Light may move faster than sound, but I heard the click of the switch and the hum of the fluorescents kicking on well before the light struck my eyes and set me blinking.
“What the?!”
I grimaced as I stood up, not needing to wait for my eyes to adjust to know who was in t...
2023-04-10 06:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The light came at me like a scene from a baseball movie where the batter has a fear of the ball. It got bigger and brighter and more solid looking, and there was another universe inside it!
A blonde girl who looked a bit like me but younger (I had never been younger than I was at the moment...
2023-04-08 00:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought I’d left Dad at the rear of the lot with the new arrival of used cars from California, but there he was on the concrete apron in front of the showroom windows with Mom and my sisters standing around a blue car. He must have jogged to catch up with me before I got here.
Everyone ...
2023-04-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 10 -- Bitties
"ShitshitshitshitSHIT! YES!" I let out a whoop as my kart crossed the finish line, narrowly bumping TimSkittles' own out of the way and granting me victory.
"Well, monkeyfarts," Tim said, his voice tinny and scratchy over his cheaper headset.
I duplicated t...
2023-04-06 05:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I sat at the counter of the bar I’d never been in before and sipped whisky I didn’t like, listening to people I didn’t want to know talk about what was wrong with the world.
One man was certain that something he called “wokeness” would destroy everything that was worthwhile, thoug...
2023-04-03 05:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I had to get up and do something or just sit there until Mom or Donna came in to chivvy me into some other girly activity. Like painting my nails, maybe. This thought caused me to look at my nails, and I was annoyed to see that I had torn a nail and hadn’t even noticed it. Okay, that got me up ...
2023-03-31 15:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post