Table of Contents (spoilers) read part 1 read part 4 A week after Choke’s interview with Brother Willem, the Pekot school juniors were leading a squad of a dozen younger pupils on an overnight patrol of the surrounding countryside. All in their mid-teens, the younger lads were armored in leather armor and armed with roundshields … Continue reading The Children of Stron – part 5
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The Children of Stron – part 4
Table of Contents (spoilers) read part 1 read part 3 The next day, Choke was standing at attention in front of Brother Willem. They were in the school library, the institution’s most impressive room with its large collection of several dozen books. As abbot of the school, Brother Willem also served as librarian and book-keeper, … Continue reading The Children of Stron – part 4
The Children of Stron – part 3
Table of Contents (spoilers) read part 1 read part 2 It was almost a two-day ride back to the Pekot school. The weather was pleasant when they set out, but turned cold and misty by the evening. Sir Gareth’s quartermaster had rewarded them with some copper coins when they turned in the bandits’ weapons they … Continue reading The Children of Stron – part 3
The Children of Stron – part 2
Table of Contents (spoilers) read part 1 With the bandits all taken care of, the juniors of Pekot school gathered in the meadow to stand around and stare at the gutshot fellow. Knuckle had made short and horrifying work of the last two bandits in the river with his greatsword, and all the others had … Continue reading The Children of Stron – part 2
The Children of Stron – part 1
Table of Contents (spoilers) The four lads from the Pekot orphanage and boarding school were not happy. They had been dispatched by the Brothers of the Holy Stone, who ran the school, to help the local authorities root out bandits from the hills of the frontier. It was not this mission that had upset them. … Continue reading The Children of Stron – part 1
Soiree
“Do make sure to try the canapé,” the host says to me before leaving.I am profoundly relieved that he is gone.Alone, I make way way through the party; room by room. The beautiful guests in their formal evening wear swim in my vision like watercolors in the rain, but the rooms and their furnishings are … Continue reading Soiree
Proof of Difference
“I need you to prove to me that you're not like all the others,” she said, staring deeply into his eyes. He thought about it for a while and then he did. He walked away from her and never once looked back.
Women’s Better Living Through Chemistry
Hey ladies! Did you know that so many of your marital woes can be solved by a daily application of any over the counter douche? It's true! But it's not like you think.You see, back in day some intrepid female chemists working for a major chemical company came up with an ingenious solution for the … Continue reading Women’s Better Living Through Chemistry
Companion
Do you remember when you were little, there was that place you were afraid of? A crawlspace in your house, or under the basement stairs. Or perhaps in the back yard or the woods nearby; a little nook under some bushes that only a child could reach. You were afraid of that place, and you … Continue reading Companion
The Story of Big Bob
by Balls Malone Big Bob had the silkiest anus in the village. It was big too. Like a bisected grapefruit. There might have been bigger anuses around, but none were so silky as Bob's. That was something everyone could agree upon. Big, red, and silky; that was Bob. Bob didn't rest on his laurels, though. … Continue reading The Story of Big Bob
Muse Vassal 