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Sinuosa, Planet of Female Aliens The following is the document I received, relating the story of a previous document that its author in turn received… Scrawled notes from my late colleague Blackwood were all I had to guide me. They existed only in a tattered leather-bound volume, chronicling in his own hand the final journey and his descent into sheer madness. A pity that he should have passed away in the behavioral health unit on his return to Earth without my having any opportunity to interrogate him regarding his adventures. And a pity that the authorities, fearing a similar fate that...

Darn! No sex in this one at all! Just a bunch of people talking! Chapter 3 “Someone came through the wormhole in Lisa’s Grotto?” Alicia asked, her eyes wide with surprise. “Who was it? Anyone we know?” “No,” Jake replied. “Some pregnant girl from Canada and her boyfriend. The girl claimed she met Beth once, evidently. And Beth initiated her.” “Beth was a long time ago, Jake,” Frank said. “You mean she’s a long-lifer? Like us?” “Yep! Both her and her boyfriend,” Jake replied. “What’s her boyfriend like?” Tanya asked, grinning mischievously. “He must be pretty virile if he got the...

0001 - Tempro                               0403 - Johnathon              growing         0003 - Conner                               0667 - Marco                      -------- 0097 - Ace                                      0778 - Jan                       0098(Lucy) 0101 - Shelby (mother ship)        0798 - Celeste                  0125 - Lars                                      0908 - Tara                        0200 - Ellen                                     0999 - Zan                     0301 - Rodrick                                1000 - Sherry        Derrick looked up from the floor at Shelby rubbing the side of his face that felt real! Not like a solid hologram but real flesh and blood! Gaining his feet he slowly backed away from Shelby who as of yet hadn't moved.   I don't know who or what you are but there is...

Chapter Five Excerpts from the Past Immortality—dazzling idea! Who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality! Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey (1824...

Late summer in the Menthino was a busy time. Kaarthen found herself in the gigantic palace map room. The entire floor was a moving image in real-time of Menthino, ladders on rollers and map tables on wheels were along the walls. Marcos was dressed almost casually in a dark green silk shirt and black Safi pants. The Queen and two princesses, Saliss the oldest and Ruegin, were with her listening to the annual plans of migration from the vast flood plains to Cardin. Three Hjordis in black Safi with their hair up in tight buns stood along the wall with Kaarthen...

Norm had the feeling she knew he was stalking her and that made him cautious. Did she want to get raped? She didn’t look like the typical police decoy with the way she was dressed. The bitch dressed kind of weird actually; a baggy trench coat, wide floppy hat and oversized sunglasses. No, not a cop but…well, Norm hoped she wasn’t a cross dresser. The middle-aged man was due back at the office for an important meeting and he didn’t want to be late. But sometimes these urges took control and he had to act on them. The bitch walked into...