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Until I graduated from college, my life was pretty normal, maybe even a little dull. I did fairly well in school, was athletically competent, and had my fair share of sexual encounters with coeds. I had planned to graduate with my degree in architectural engineering and get a job at a firm in the city like just about everyone else. Those were my plans… until I got the news that my aunt had died.

My Aunt Emily was my mother’s younger sister and being beautiful, funny, and exciting, she was always one of my favorite relatives. She used to live with us until she moved away. She moved to the mountains of Colorado and opened a photography studio in a private community called Eden Valley. We rarely heard from her after that but whenever she called, she seemed as though she was enjoying herself. At any rate, the week after I graduate college, we got the news that she had died in a boating accident. A week after the funeral, her lawyer informed me that she had left her photography studio and house to me. He provided me with a letter from my aunt and let me know that my aunt had asked that I read it.

The envelope with the letter contained a pass card to Eden Valley and read:

“Sam, if you are reading this then something must have happened to me and you are the new owner of the Vista Visions photo studio and a house in Eden Valley. Before you decide what to do with them, I would like you to take a trip to Eden Valley and live there for a month or so. Eden Valley is a very special place, more special than you can possibly imagine and you will need to live there for some time to understand what I mean. After you have been there for a month, you can decide what to do with the house and studio. I expect you will want to stay, but that will be up to you. Before you leave, be aware that Eden Valley is a private community and has some rules that you will need to follow:

No children – no one under the age of 18 is to be admitted Privacy is important – no information is to be shared about the community or its members without the express permission of the community as a whole Visitors must be approved by the community before entry Clothing is not required unless otherwise posted Be open – an open mind is important to enjoying the Eden Valley community and the varied experiences it has to offer

The letter left me a bit confused but very intrigued. I was still grieving over the loss of my aunt but excited to see what was in store for me in Eden Valley. I didn’t have any job prospects lined up, so I booked a plane ticket, packed my bags, said goodbye to my parents and sister, and I was on my way. I can’t tell you exactly where the community is, but it took a lengthy car ride to get there after I landed at a little airport called Stevens Field. There was only one road into Eden Valley, and it was a long, heavily forested road off the beaten path that led into a deep, beautiful valley in the mountains. At the end of the road was a walled, and gated community with an electronic kiosk at the entrance. I approached the kiosk and pushed the single available button. An attractive blonde appeared on the screen and asked, “Good afternoon, how can I help you?”

I let her know who I was and held my pass up to the camera. She smiled and said invitingly, “Well, come on in. We’ve been waiting for you, Sam. My name is Cheryl. Just pull straight ahead once the gate opens and I’ll come out and meet you at the first building on the left.”

Sure enough, the gate swung open and pulled forward and down a slight incline into the town. The mountains rose steeply on either side, with a quaint little town nestled between them like something from a Swiss postcard. The first building on the left appeared to be something of a combination town hall and post office, and Cheryl was coming out the door to meet me as promised. If she looked beautiful on camera, she looked incredible in person. About 5’ 6” and probably in her late 20’s, she was wearing a short, pleated skirt, almost like a tennis player would wear only slightly longer, and a buttoned blouse with several of the top buttons undone, covered with a light V-neck sweater. Her slightly curled blonde hair fit her face perfectly and she had long, tanned, and toned legs. From the bounce and sway of her moderately sized breasts, she didn’t appear to be wearing a bra. I rolled down my window as she approached and she leaned over, resting her elbows on the open window frame. Once she leaned over, she had enough buttons undone on her blouse that I could tell for sure she wasn’t wearing a bra and there was a hint of areola visible. Once she spoke to me again, I realized I was staring. She didn’t seem to mind as she pointed to a couple of parking spots on the side of the building and said, “Park right over there, come on inside, and I’ll give you a little orientation about our community.”

I parked the car as I watched her bounce away, mesmerized by her breasts and thought I saw, or imagined that I saw, I hint of her ass cheek as the breeze lifted her dress while she headed back into the building. I had the distinct impression that she wasn’t wearing anything underneath her little pleated skirt. Parking quickly, I followed her inside, ready for any kind of orientation she was willing to give. Inside the building, there was a reception desk on the left and a waiting room on the right with a TV and a sofa. Cheryl guided me to the sofa and asked me to sit down. “I’m very sorry about your Aunt Emily. We all loved her. We hope that you will feel welcome here and will want to stay with us, but Eden Valley is a very unusual community and we have a short video that will help explain. We have found that it helps reduce confusion and misunderstandings for newcomers, although we do strictly limit who is invited. You’ll understand why after watching the video. Relax and let me know when you’re done. I’ll be over at reception,” she said with a smile, and then bounced out the door and headed to her desk.

The video began and I watched as some cartoon characters explained the history and dynamics of Eden Valley. To summarize – Eden Valley was established in the early 1920s and sits in a valley between the mountains of Colorado. There is a lake, Lake Harmony, next to the town which is filled with runoff from the mountains as well as some natural underground springs beneath the lake and is used as the town’s reservoir. The founders of the town, a group that called themselves The Seekers of Light, were a quasi-religious group seeking freedom from persecution and a place where they could live as they saw fit. Not long after establishing the town that would become Eden Valley, The Seekers of Light began to notice changes in behavior that would later be attributed to the peculiar properties of the water in Lake Harmony. Some combination of the minerals in the runoff water and the mineral and chemical compounds emitted from the underground springs had created a drinking supply which caused a profound impact on the behavior of the townspeople and changed the future of Eden Valley forever. The water had the effect of reducing sickness, dramatically increasing libido, and decreasing inhibitions. Apparently, the water also functioned as a natural birth control agent since no woman in the town had become pregnant in almost 100 years. The behaviors driven by the consumption of the water dictated a much different culture in the town than anywhere else, and the residents of the town had found it necessary to build an essentially freeuse society, where sex with anyone was a possibility at any time. This was the main reason for the strict limitations on guests and visitors and it meant those living in the town also found it difficult to acclimate to the outside world and rarely left. The video explained that it took 1-2 weeks of living in the town for the changes from the water to gradually take effect, after which open sexual behaviors would seem normal. At the end of the orientation video, a set of town guidelines was presented, the first three of which I was already familiar with:

No children – no one under the age of 18 is to be admitted Privacy is important – no information is to be shared about the community or its members without the express permission of the community as a whole Visitors must be approved by the community before entry Sex is permissible at any time, anywhere, with anyone as long as all parties involved consent and there are no safety concerns (sex while driving is not recommended) While marriages and partnerships are allowed and encouraged, monogamous relationships are discouraged and impractical Sexual contact between family members, while not encouraged, is completely permissible and considered unavoidable

I have to admit, I was having a hard time getting my mind wrapped around a freeuse society, although the possibilities were very exciting. Of course, I was already imagining what it would be like to fuck Emily, while the outfit she was wearing, particularly the things she wasn’t wearing, began to make more sense. I could feel my cock begin to stiffen as I thought about it and may hardon made it difficult to get up from the couch as I approached Emily at the reception desk. When I walked up to her, I could see that she had her hand under her skirt, absentmindedly stroking her own pussy. Once she noticed me, she looked up and smiled, slowly pulling her hand out from under her skirt. “Hi Sam, what did you think of the orientation?” she asked.

“It was amazing. I’m still a little overwhelmed, but I think that I am going to like it here a lot,” I said.

“I have no doubt that you will fit right in. Would you like me to complete the orientation for you now?” she asked with a gleam in her eye.

I smiled back and without waiting for me to respond verbally she walked around the desk, unbuttoned and unzipped my jeans, dropped to her knees, and engulfed my rapidly hardening cock with her warm, wet mouth. My cock is about average length and a little thicker than most. Once she got it wet, she swallowed it whole and I could feel it in the back of her throat while she licked the bottom off my shaft. She was highly skilled, very practiced, and I was getting the best blowjob of my entire life. I wish I could say that I held out like a stud, but the experience was so intense that I blew a huge load straight down her throat after just a few minutes.

“Mmmmm. Thank you. That was nice. I was getting pretty bored at my desk today, and I really needed that,” she said as she licked her lips and wiped the accumulated saliva from her mouth. There wasn’t a drop of cum to clean up because she had swallowed every last bit of it.

“No. Thank you! That was incredible, easily the best orientation I’ve ever had,” I responded as I zipped my pants and tried to recover.

“Sweety, that’s just the beginning. It’ll take you a little while, but you will get used to this place soon. Speaking of which, would you like some water?”

“Absolutely. I’m parched,” I replied, realizing that I was very thirsty after the load I had just released into her willing mouth.

Cheryl handed me a bottle of Eden Valley Spring Water and I gulped it down, hungrily. It tasted great, like perfectly pure water, only with a little something indiscernible, yet undeniably extra. I’m probably imagining things but I thought I could feel a little tingle as I drank it.

“Ok, Sam. Let’s get you on your way. You’ll want to head down the street and turn left here. Your house and photo studio are here on the corner of Main and Light Streets. Here are your house keys which include a garage door opener,” she said pointing out the location on a map of the town as she handed over the keys and the map.

“Thanks again,” I replied as I turned and headed out the door with a huge smile plastered across my face, looking forward to more adventures.

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"I know you said this could happen, Amanda, but I still can't believe they'd actually refuse us!" said Heisinger. The humans were gathered in the pavilion watching as the Edenites industriously helped assemble the first load to be ferried back to the Ark. This would be, as they'd long planned, mostly soil along with a few basic horticultural specimens. The massive bays of the mothership would have to be conditioned into a reasonable approximation of Eden's surface before they'd be...

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Eden RescueChapter 24

The work went on virtually non-stop, with periodic slow-downs when one or another of the humans was too exhausted to go on. Heisinger and Igwanda rested in relays, one of them always awake to guide the operation and ensure that it hewed to the plan; the others snatched such sleep as they were able when they were able. They were in constant communication with Cro­martie aboard the Ark to ensure that the on-board arrangements likewise followed the plan, and twice Igwanda made quick visits to...

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Eden RescueChapter 28

"Married?" said Meiersdottir in surprise. She was on the communicator with Igwanda, who with Heisinger had alone remained on the surface. The others, together with both landers, had repaired to the Ark as soon as what had been intended as the final loading was finished for a much-needed night's sleep. It was now early afternoon planetside in what was their first day of inactivity since they'd arrived at Eden. "Al and I originally planned it when we started," Igwanda told her. "We...

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Eden RescueChapter 33

"You say that name of this ship, Ark, has much meaning to you," Gagugakhing remarked to Heisinger. "Would you tell us this meaning?" The younger woman had quickly adopted the practice of alternating with Meiersdottir in interacting with the Edenites on their voyage. Actually the brunt of the effort fell on Heisinger; the old woman was increasingly feeling the ravages of her advanced age and the efforts she'd put forth in their visit to Eden itself, and as little as an hour was enough...

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Eden RescueChapter 36

At long last, after five grueling weeks of crushing on-board gravitational excess and unremitting tension, the crucial day had arrived. There remained but hours before the nova's killing burst of radiation would reach the Eden system, and before the Ark would at last attain the minimum speed that would allow it to pass into worm space and escape. And Meiersdottir was still in a coma. Even the optimistic O'Bannion now referred to her condition as "critical," and was increasingly guarded...

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EdenChapter 16

What developed, as Igwanda had predicted, was a second day of virtually no predatory activity. Two flying creatures stooped on small ground animals, one successfully and one not, but other than that and a brief territorial display between two of the hexapods the day was a bucolic repetition of the previous one. The scientists spent most of it again collecting specimens. Observing closely, both Komosaki and Heisinger were able to collect ground plants onto which some of the grazers and...

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Eden on the RailsChapter 15

"I see. Go ahead, then." "Piotr tells me that his pal's Dad – the name of the man is Hubert Swanson, by the way – it seems that he currently is a labourer on the rail track. He is a frustrated man, and takes out his aggression on everyone who has a better-paid job. He tells them that he is just as good as them, but they get better jobs because of their paper qualifications, not because they are better at their jobs. That doesn't endear him to his colleagues at work." John nodded....

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Tales of Ancient Rome 3 Lions in the Valley

Synopsis: Salidia's Little Lion, Lydia, sparks a fight with neighbors, and she picks up a bow to become Hell on Horseback to protect those she loves.  Out of the fires of this conflict, they forge the place that became known as the Valley of the Amazons.  Action story with Femdom leads. `165 pgs.        Tales of Ancient Rome 3: Lions in the Valley                                          By                                          TG                                    Chapter 1                ...

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Eden West

I was beat, beat, beat. This last project had taken the wind out of my sails. Too many 11pm calls with China. Too many lunches eaten over my computer keyboard. In fact I’d spilled coffee so many times I was on my third keyboard. I told my pal in California that I was taking a vacation. “ I don’t care if Mark can’t make it- I’m just going to take off,” I said. “ Great,” said my pal Rob. “Go for it. Where to?” “ I’ve got a great spa picked out. Actually, it’s down your way. Santa Barbara. Eden...

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EdenChapter 35

"Colonel, are they gone?" asked Chavez over the communicator. "Yes, Sergeant, you may speak now. Have you—" "Are you insane, Colonel?" the sergeant burst out. "The lander is ready to go right now, we can have you safe on board in—" "Sergeant, shut up," said Igwanda sharply. He still wasn't quite certain of Meiersdottir's intentions, but he'd had more than enough of Chavez' interference. "But to spend the night camping out in the middle of thousands of—" "Sergeant, do I...

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EdenChapter 44

"And it's still daylight, sort of," she smiled. He laughed easily. "I gather that you feel pleased about the proposed course of action." "Very pleased," she said. "But you know, I don't like the idea of dealing with this over the communicator. I really think I need to get back to the Gardener and get it talked out with everybody in the same place." He nodded slowly. "That should not be difficult to arrange," he said. "We can have a lander sent down to retrieve us at our...

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EdenChapter 54

For true students of learning—and the scientists aboard the Gardener were nothing if not that, for there had been no other reason to volunteer for the voyage—the ensuing few weeks were almost an idyll. To be sure, little in the field of human endeavor is ever universally idyllic. Some balked initially at Igwanda's requirement that they camp out at night sheltered only by the pavilion, as he and Meiersdottir had done, but he remained adamant about not presenting technological artifacts that...

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EdenChapter 66

Meiersdottir was adamant about having her baby on Eden itself rather than the Gardener. "It's not really about what I promised Gagugakhing, although I do think of that," she told Igwanda privately. "It's just that we have a perfectly good planet right here and I want our son"—routine prenatal care had revealed the sex—"to have a birthplace he can point to, at least on a star map, rather than just having to say he was born 'somewhere in space.'" Predictably, both ship's doctors...

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EdenChapter 4

No wars had been waged on Earth in four generations. The nationalistic fervor of the 20th century, the religious and racial zealotry of the 21st, the urban insurrections of the 22nd had long since been overcome by either sheer force or calming moderation. Advances in weaponry had rendered total warfare an idea of the past; with biological, chemical and nuclear "weapons of mass destruction" within the reach of all, few could fail to recognize that an all-out attack on any rival, no matter...

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EdenChapter 7

"Well, madam?" Due courtesies had been extended; he'd answered her knock quickly, had politely taken her coat and hung it up, had ushered her to a chair that was ostentatiously positioned on the opposite side of the hotel room's sole table from the only other, which he took. She accepted the pleasantries with evident appreciation, but no other words had been spoken by either. For a time they simply studied each other. He found her unusually attractive, only a few centimeters shorter...

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Eden RescueChapter 4

There seemed to be no doorbell, and it was difficult for the old man to find a place to knock on the bamboo door. He tried a hard rap on the frame, but the result was a mere muted thud that he knew wouldn't carry within. It was all of a piece, he supposed. People who were looking for visitors didn't seclude themselves on remote islands in the middle of a vast ocean. It had been tough enough to even find the place; then he'd had to take three different aircraft of steadily diminishing size...

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Eden RescueChapter 18

Not just fear and hatred then, she thought as she went back over the discussion in her mind. Fear, hatred and ignorance. And I suppose the greatest of these, and the most dangerous, is the ignorance. The most difficult to overcome, too, I expect. Because so dreadfully many people simply don't want to know, they resist knowing, they cling as tightly to their ignorance as they would to a rock at the edge of a cliff, a liferaft in the ocean. Was it so for the ones who visited Angus? she...

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Eden RescueChapter 30

"Ge' th'lan'err in wherre ye can, bu' do i' fas', Arrlen," came MacPherson's voice over the lander's communicator. "Then leave yer lock close' until I say. We'rre gaein' firrs' as soon as ye'rre on, closin' up la'err." It was now evident why the lander departures from Eden had been sequenced as they had. Nassir, as much the more experienced pilot, would have to slip his vehicle into the uncomfortably narrow slot left by Yuan, who'd taken up more than her share of the...

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Eden RescueChapter 32

It was only about three days later that MacPherson came into the bridge after a short night's sleep to find Igwanda, Heisinger, Meiersdottir and Cromartie all waiting for him. "G'mornin'," he said, slightly surprised. They simply glared in his direction, none of them responding. He rolled his eyes. "All rrigh', ye've summa' in yer crraw," he acknowledged. "Who woul' carre t'tell me wha'?" "Where are you taking us, MacPherson?" challenged Igwanda in a rough voice. "Weel,...

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