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Cleaning The Ashtray

When I was sixteen-years-old and in the eleventh grade, for my sins, I acquired the disgusting habit of smoking cigarettes. At the boys' boarding school I attended there was a gentleman’s agreement with the senior boys, and the smokers had a special area where they would not be ‘prosecuted.’ For us juniors, however, this spot was off-limits. We always had to find secret places to indulge in our nicotine obsession. Sadly, the secret places were not always secret as one wished and resultantly I...

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Ashtray

Sitting in our modest house naked while stroking my pathetic four inch cock, I listen to my breathing, but I have to stop and use my hands to adjust the mask I’m wearing. It’s a black leather strap across the bottom part of my face which supports a stainless steel ashtray sticking out front. It feels loose and is throwing me off, so I make it a little tighter. There, that feels better. I wonder what the studs that bang my wife think when they see me in this getup. The ones she keeps around fuck...

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Human Contact

It's a Tuesday afternoon, a few weeks into the mass quarantine. I'm a divorced guy, and living alone I haven't had actual physical contact with a fellow human in a long time now. No handshakes. No hugs. No high-fives. No fist-bumps. No brushed shoulders. No accidentally bumping the cashier's hand when she hands me back my card. No nothing. At least I get to video-chat every day with my coworkers, friends and family, but that is no substitute for the real thing. Human bodies were meant...

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Human Reproduction Ch 02

by Fidget Chapter 2 Six months later Megan was finally showing; her toned belly was starting to soften and swell as her body carried out its evolutionary programming. As it turned out, Mason had successfully impregnated the enticing nineteen year-old the first time he had lost control inside her fertile babymaker, but that hadn't stopped Megan's reproductive instincts from driving her to copulate with the willing young stud again and again over the next few months to ensure that the...

Human Pet Zoo

Human Pet ZooBy SarahPrologue: In the year 2020, Dictator for life Obama made it legal for girls over 21 to enter into voluntarily enslavement for the amusement of males. Soon after the protests died down, business professionals soon began to develop theme parks for girls interested in living the lifestyle to live in comfortably, or in any case, as comfortably as a slave girl could ask for. A new federal department was created, the department for human pet safety, which was tasked with...

Human Toilet Abduction

Human Toilet AbductionIt was well after 2 am when I finished work at the club and after waiting for almost 45 minutes to get a cab home because my car was at the mechanics I finally gave up and decided to walk home. It was dark and cold so my step quickened. All I wanted to do was get home, take a long hot shower, maybe check out some porn on the internet while I fucked myself with my thickest dildo riding up and down the super thick shaft on my office chair while I went to some of my most...

Humanoids

Nobody knows exactly where they came from, maybe they were mutants from the pollution of humanity or maybe they've always been around. Maybe this is Man's Hubris coming back to roost, maybe they're just a path of Evolution that was always there but never really discovered just from sheer dumb luck. Never officially, anyway. 1954, The Amazon. A scientific expedition takes a turn when Kay Lawrence, the group's ichthyologist and the only female in the group, is kidnapped by what was described by...

Human toilet training

Human toilet trainingTraining a toilet slave is in fact extremely difficult. It takes months and sometimes years to perfect for several reasons:1st and most obvious is taste and smell. It may take practice for your slave to adequately deal with the taste and smell of human excrement without gagging or throwing up.Your colon can serve your slave much more than his mouth can comfortably hold. In order for things to remain sanitary, you're slave will need to be able to swallow faster than it comes...

Human

It was well after 9:00PM when I finally returned from work. I was exhausted mentally, which was definitely affecting me physically. But I had much preferred to stay rather late on a Friday evening than go to work for a few hours on a Saturday morning. Still, I felt less than human when I walked in the front door. Clearly, I had missed dinner, and the snacks I had bought from a vending machine at work would not last me much longer. If my fiancée had cooked dinner, she had already put away...

Human Resources

Human Resources by Cindy V. May 2000 It was about 8 pm on a Saturday night, as I cursed the computer because my spreadsheet formula was wrong. Yes, another Saturday night at the office in downtown Manhattan. Why was I there? For one thing, because I had no social life at the moment. But for another, because there was too much work to do, and because the damn Human Resources department was dragging its feet as usual on finding me an assistant. Sorry, but I...

Human Mattress 2

HUMAN MATTRESS 2By Hungry Guy Doug yawned and awoke. A ray of sunlight filtered in through the crack in the curtains on the single window of his dorm room. He lifted his head up and saw that it was only 9:18. Too early to get out of bed on a Saturday morning. The girl upon which he was sleeping squirmed a little. There had been so many girls the past few weeks that he could no longer remember their names. She couldn't move much because her ankles were shackled and tied tightly to...

Human Reproduction Ch 01

by Fidget Chapter 1 Dr. Jeff was trying to finish wiring his new device before his Intro to Bio class started, but it was starting to look pretty unlikely. As a molecular biologist, designing machines to improve concentration wasn't really his field (and to be honest, he was fairly certain he wasn't supposed to be using university equipment for personal projects either), but some amateur research into the effects of certain frequencies of sound on the human brain had led to a few...

Humanoids 1

[As previously promised, I will be adding a couple chapters tonight before releasing a large amount of content made for the next day.. all fully typed, checked, and spaced out so you don't just see 1 or 2 pages added every update!] [I'm also happy to say that there will be much more action and lore coming soon!] _ (This story is my creation, but erotic content is not my priority with this.) READ: *Make sure that you have chosen your name and set each pro-noun to your character's gender - Click...

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Human Toilet at the Club Pt 04

Chapter 8 I have only been a toilet for a few hours, but time moves slower when you have shit in your mouth. Ms. Stone's diarrhea was brutal. I felt shell-shocked, and was convinced the shit inside me was eating away at my brain. It's as if I'm turning into a real toilet, losing my humanity one shit at a time. I had no dignity left. I entered this club with the hope of seeing my ex-girlfriend Lauren. But the reality is inescapable, the only human connection I can expect is having my lips...

Human Toilet at the Club Pt 1

“Finishing high school should make me want to celebrate, but I feel like shit,” I thought to myself. My girlfriend Lauren had broken up with me. She was the head cheerleader and the most popular girl in school. I was so madly in love with her, but she thought I was a loser. She only liked me because I was one of the first kids to get a car. I would drive her and her girlfriends around, and they would pretend to be nice to me. After dropping them off at club events, I would hear them laughing...

Human Mexican Donkey Part 1

I went to the Mexico to visit the Mayan ruins for my summer vacation. The Mayan’s Indians are very poor and work very hard for there money. They live in mud huts with dirt floors and thatch roofs. They are very short people who are know for carrying large heavy objects on there heads, and walking many miles with there cargo. Because they use there heads to carry heavy objects, they have a very strong neck and back, to be able to withstand the pressure put on them while walking many hours to...

Human Mexican Donkey Part 1

I went to the Mexico to visit the Mayan ruins for my summer vacation. The Mayan’s Indians are very poor and work very hard for there money. They live in mud huts with dirt floors and thatch roofs. They are very short people who are know for carrying large heavy objects on there heads, and walkingmany miles with there cargo. Because they use there heads to carry heavyobjects, they have a very strong neck and back, to be able to withstand the pressure put on them while walking many hours to...

Human Furniture Company

Human Furniture CompanyBy SarahPrologue: In the early 21st century, human populations across the globe suffered a major financial meltdown, followed by a massive terrorist attack. The insidious attack, however, targeted the reproduction rates of the world’s women. 50 years after the attack, women around the world began to see the results of the genetic bomb that the terrorists had delivered. Women began giving birth to multiple girls at a time, while males being born remained...

Human Mattress

HUMAN MATTRESSBy Hungry Guy ([email protected]) Doug got out of his last class at 3:30 Friday afternoon. After dropping his books on his bed in his dorm room, he went down the hall to watch TV in the corner lounge. Bob, Cindy, Diane, Carl, Debbie, Linda, and Ron were sitting around the coffee table passing a joint around. "Hey Doug," Ron called. "Want a hit?" "Sure," said Doug as he plopped down on one of the institutional-decor dorm sofas. "We're having a...

Human Sexuality 201 Cindi

Cindi's Night at the Ball Game My name's Cindi. Yes. With an I! Ms. Thompson required that I write out my experience from my date last Friday. First, I'm the one that jumped up in dismay when Ms. Thompson required that we all go nude for the entire weekend. I had a date with a guy that I really liked. It was the first time I had gone out with him and he wasn't a student, so he didn't really know what was going on here. I'd met him at work. I work part time as an accounting intern for...

Humanitarian famine assistance

Humanitarian famine assistanceAuthor: RotnebSynopsis: Kathy's participation in a demonstration in favour of famine is fatal to her, because politicians are too slow to allocate enough relief.The story is only fantasyTo prepare a necessary charity demonstration- ... I will finish my talk on the gruesome hunger problems in Africa, due to several unfortunate circumstances in connection with wars and climate. A whole world is starving. People lack first of all food. Political negotiations are...

Human Contact 1

Brynn nearly jumped. He hadn't heard the man approach. "Mind if I sit with ya? Have a little company?" Not waiting for a reply, the man sat. The next moment was silent except for a passing car. "Used to be the old Collinwood library, this building here,” he commented. "Sittin' on the original cement. Now it's---what?---BattleLines?" The man's head turned toward advertisements in the windows. "'Challenge your skills! Play others! Private booths. Ten dollars for a half...

Human Contact 1

Brynn was a loner but not by choice. When opportunity for relationship comes, will he overcome himself and give what it takes to make it work?--------------------------------------------------"Alone again?"Brynn nearly jumped. He hadn't heard the man approach."Mind if I sit with ya? Have a little company?" Not waiting for a reply, the man sat. The next moment was silent except for a passing car."Used to be the old Collinwood library, this building here,” he commented. "Sittin' on the original...

Human Toilet Fantasy

In this fantasy, I find out about a local BDSM community and that they meet on Friday night at a private club In this fantasy, I find out about a local BDSM community and that they meet on Friday night at a private club.? I decide that I am going to crash their party and see what I can find out.? When I go to the door, it is unlocked, and I am easily able to walk in.? There is a bar on the opposite end of the room and at least 50 people there.? I stroll through the room with confidence,...

Human Mattress

Doug got out of his last class at 3:30 Friday afternoon. After dropping his books on his bed in his dorm room, he went down the hall to watch TV in the corner lounge. Bob, Cindy, Diane, Carl, Debbie, Linda, and Ron were sitting around the coffee table passing a joint around. "Hey Doug," Ron called. "Want a hit?" "Sure," said Doug as he plopped down on one of the institutional-decor dorm sofas. "We're having a philosophical debate," said Bob as Ron handed the joint to...

Human PhoenixChapter 17

July 12, 2007, the Staging Area A group of deputies helped lift Scott's motorcycle into the back of the sheriff's truck. The boys were bundled into the back seat and the convoy of vehicles started to roll. A deputy stayed behind to control access to the property. Emergency lights hidden behind the grills of the privately owned vehicles flickered in the glass of the sheriff's truck as the convoy sped down the road. Scott sat quietly while Bo stared out the window. Sheriff King used the...

Human ManChapter 35

Sunlight streamed into the bedroom. Scott woke from a warm, foggy dream. He stiffened at the presence of another body in the bed, but memories of the night came flooding back and he relaxed. Janie was on her stomach, sleeping. He pressed his lips to her shoulder and rolled out of bed. She groaned, "No ... come back." "Sun's up and so am I." Janie covered her head with a pillow. "I'm going to work out, you can sleep in." The only response was a muffled, "Barbarian." Scott...

Human ManChapter 39

He'd fallen asleep on the couch again. Jobe was licking his face. "Okay, okay! I'm awake," Scott laughed pushing the dog away. He stopped. He was in the old garage apartment. Surrounding him was the right furniture, the stereo, the rug exactly as he remembered. He dropped his hand to Jobe's head. The big shepherd licked his hand. Jobe was real, the couch he was sitting on was real, but the flat screen TV hung suspended in midair. Where there should have been walls and a ceiling was...

Humanity vs D Humanity

The year was 2013, the world had suddenly fell back to the dark ages. The ages of war, death, famine and destruction reigned supreme. The dead have suddenly risen from their burial ground and has brought upon a deadly maelstrom of attacks on humanity... How did this began? No one really knows. Acce-core tech, the world's leading pharmaceutical company in developing the said 'cure' for cancer has been bashed by the government about the situation. This was just a theory. The military had been...

Humanity s Sexiest

I walked through the outside wall for the first day in weeks. Even with the blood, gore and danger, I still missed it out here. Up ahead, were the newbies. They were lined up, staring as Levi gave his speech. ‘Furthermore, never disobey orders from any of the higher ranking officials. You do what we say and you won’t end up dead… maybe.’ I smirked at this. Levi was always so bossy. ‘We’re in charge of you little shits until a new shipment of shits make it outside the wall. That is, if the...

Humani

Hello, for those of you wondering why the first chapter isn't already diving into the story, it is for the reason as a type of hub for everything I will post and/or edit. Do not fret, I will try and make weekly updates if I can, though I will not take longer than an entire year, just remember I still have a life besides writing smut and similar things. I am currently writing a book so don't expect me to update this regularly. ~Virtual —Introduction— You walk in the shoes of Icarus Knight, a...

Humanity s Last Hope

This story will include a large amount of incest fantasy stuff, and over time I'm sure a ton of other content. Just giving people a heads up. I realize that this has a very small amount of content currently completed, but I wanted to publish it to see if it's something I should continue or not. This is the first time I've ever attempted to write any kind of story in my life as well as the first time I've ever used Chyoa, so I know I have a huge amount to learn and improve on, but I wanted to...

TheHumanoidTyphoon

TheHumanoidTyphoonhmmm... i imagine a logging road way back in the sticks, just after a heavy rain storm, there's a bunch of big mud puddles.. I'm standing next to one. you're down on your knees in the mud at the edge, naked except for your panthose, your legs covered with mud.i reach down and begin to smear mud all over your ass, giving it a playful spank. you try to crawl away, but slip in the mud. i pull you back towards me as you continue to try and squirm away. i tear a hole in your...

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Like fucked up porn? Well, here's Inhumanity dot com. With a name like that, you know this isn’t going to be your run of the mill, vanilla porn site. It won’t be anything like finding your old man’s spank mags under the bed. This is going to be some truly hardcore, brutal shit, guaranteed. Two seconds after I learned the name of the site, I found out they were a sister site of eFukt. Inhumanity’s slogan is Come For the Tits, Stay for the Train Wreck, so I know this is going to be a fun...

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Are you looking to meet people and have some sexy fun with them? Well, you’re not going to do it from your man cave. That is unless you’re on the website Humaniplex.com which specializes in just that. You’ll meet plenty of people with similar interests as you and you can start meeting up with them and making some new memories right now! In the end, you’ll have to go outside, but before you do that why not take a minute to utilize the wonders of modern technology in order to find yourself the...

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Superhuman It s Not My Time

Hi, there. How are you? My name is James Guillaume. I’m a six-foot-one, fairly good-looking young black man living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. I’m twenty years old and I was born under the sign of the Aquarius. Which pretty much makes me an inquisitive and open-minded person by nature. Lucky me. Because life has been throwing me all kinds of challenges lately. I’ve done my best to meet them. It comes with being what I am. What am I? One of those beings whom modern-day humans refuse...

Human Toilet at the Club Pt 03

***** Chapter 6 I couldn't think straight. The dildo in my ass was stretching me out. My ass burned from its size, holding me open and filling me. But, what was worse than the dildo was my sister's shit. It had taken over my senses. It's all I could smell, taste, feel, and think about. I spent the next 10 minutes trying to hold the turd down. If I threw it up, I would have to swallow it down again—or otherwise drown. As much as drowning had its appeal, a small part of me liked what was...

Human Contact 2

It was surprising how quickly it had come about. They had returned from Easton City and Gilbert had parked behind BattleLines VideoChallenge, as usual. What was not usual was that Brynn eventually found his smaller hand under the man’s bigger one and the older man masturbating himself to orgasm. Brynn had neither permitted nor protested the act. He didn’t understand his acquiescence, but as he began sorting through things, it seemed: He wanted to be with the man,...

Human Contact 2

A young misfit boy learns that his path to fitting in with a new friend is to give the man the oral attention that he needs.------------------------------------------- Brynn awoke with dizzying thoughts and questions. The night before had been unexpected and he wasn’t sure what to think. He loved his times with Gilbert but now felt despair that the older man might have changed his mind.It was surprising how quickly it had come about. They had returned from Easton City and Gilbert had parked...

Human Resources

“Ee lass come in and sit down tell thee Uncle Eric all about it,” Eric Ollerenshaw mithered to some stuck up bitch from t’office on third floor. Eric were CEO and in charge of Human Recourses at Ollerenshaw’s Mill. Elanore shuffled awkwardly into the room and sat opposite Eric. “It’s Dan, the lad who I work with, he put his hand up my skirt,” she announced. “Grabbed thee pussy did he?” Eric enquired, “Inside the pants or outside?” “No just touched me.” she said. “You sure it weren’t...

Human Waste

I've gotta tell you - I don't get mind control, I really don't. I mean, all these stories are all pretty silly wish- fufillment, reflecting most people's desperate pathtic fantasies to dominate others in the only safe non threatening enviorment, that they have, namely - their imaginations! (laughter) Now I'm not picking on you poor clods (male and female) who read this garbage and actually are sad anough to get aroused by it, really I'm not. Unless the above paragraph describes you to a...

Human PhoenixChapter 3

Eight years later, Fort Stockton Middle School At the back of the classroom Scott held a book open on his desk. The student seated at the head of his row was reading aloud. This was supposed to be Advanced English with Mr. Hunt. The substitute teacher filling in for him apparently thought that reading aloud was a skill of great importance. Having English right after lunch was bad enough, but this was bordering on cruel and inhuman. The revolt started when the student right in front of Scott...

Human PhoenixChapter 8

Monday, August 14, 2006 Mr. Piotrowski had found a nice office set at an estate sale, and had arranged to have it delivered. The two brothers who delivered the furniture had a good deal going. Call them from anywhere in the county and they'd show up with a truck and move your stuff. The laptop looked a little lonely on the desk all by itself. Scott had convinced Mr. Piotrowski that he'd be better off with an external mouse instead of trying to manipulate the touch pad. His fingers were a...

Human PhoenixChapter 11

Friday, January 19, 2007 Mr. Piotrowski hung up the phone, and asked Scott if he wanted to go to Chicago with him. "Chicago?" Scott asked. "That was the folks at the Field Museum. We've been invited to the opening of their new netsuke exhibit. I think it's an excuse to have a party, but they're calling it a fund raiser. They're going to cover our air fare and hotel expenses," explained Mr. Piotrowski. "That's cool! Uh, when is it?" Mr. Piotrowski made a note on the calendar...

Human PhoenixChapter 15

April 2007 The aftermath of the incident in the biology lab was short-lived. Principal Reynolds put an end to the wild rumors going around during a special school assembly Wednesday morning. Nobody had been killed or maimed, but one student had been expelled. The biology lab had been cleaned up and was ready for classes to resume. The student body had to sit through several speeches about personal responsibility and the 'proper' ways to express disagreements. Leaving the assembly Scott...

Human PhoenixChapter 21

Monday, August 11th, 2008 In the six months since the shutdown of Broken Creek, life had been a series of ups and downs. Scott found that he missed Mr. Piotrowski more the longer he was gone. There were friends he could talk to, but none of them had the same ability to look to the heart of a problem and ferret out the right bit of wisdom. He'd come to something of a crossroads, and he had a big decision to make about the future. Honour looked at Scott over her notepad and frowned at him....

Human ManChapter 26

He was a sucker for the Christmas season and Levall did the holiday right. Downtown had a lighting program for the trees. Stores decorated their windows and the streetlights sported various holiday figures on brackets. Scott spent a ridiculous amount on strings of lights to surround his windows. Maybe the ridiculous thing was how much pleasure he got out of watching the light patterns. He bought a small tree because a big one felt desperate. Next door, the Black Horse was doing gangbuster...

Human ManChapter 32

History 303, History of the Roman Empire, was not well attended, but that meant plenty of available seats. Scott nodded to a classmate and dropped his backpack beside his chair. At six weeks in, with ten to go, the original enrollment of twenty-five students had dwindled by half. He thought it was a good class, but the professor was notoriously tough. His phone chirped with a text message and Scott scrambled to silence it. One guaranteed way to get on the professor's bad side was to get...

Human Relations Officer

I took this job because it was in the city and it would give me a chance to find an apartment and move out on my husband, who hasn't touched me in over two years. I finally got to the point I was tired of being his maid, for absolutely no benefits and this company was perfect. It is an Architectural Design and Engineering Company with only four people employed there. Three men and one woman, the owner, his daughter who is an architect, the younger man who was also an architect and the third man...

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Humans and Homesteads

You live in the modern day world! There are no flying cars or dragons, no, simply look out your window if you want to imagine what the lay of the land is for this story. One key note and important distinction: your universe has been altered for some reason! Women are more prevalent than men, splitting it 70% to 30% and in your high school specifically the ratio is more like 80% to 20%! What a strange plot devi- I mean, “phenomenon”… You are 18 years old and attend the local public high school....

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Humanity Pt 01

Planet Taelinas The impending wedding ensured peace between the two warring nations. At least that was the guise presented to the Yewn and the Taelin. Luciana, daughter of the Taelin Queen, knew better. After all, her mother was not known for her compassion or fairness. ‘Luciana,’ Berith snapped at her inattentive daughter. The Queen was beautiful with her long pale hair and ethereal looks. Even with her serene beauty, all who knew the Queen knew that she could be as fierce as she was...

Human PhoenixChapter 18

Friday afternoon, August 10th, 2007 Scott walked into the kitchen at Mr. Piotrowski's bursting with news. Mr. Piotrowski was at the stove standing over a big pot holding a large wooden spoon. Jobe was hovering nearby in case anything interesting fell to the floor. He started to speak, but Mr. Piotrowski pointed the spoon at him. "Before you say anything, Honour called. She says to tell you, and I quote, 'not a word'. She was very insistent." "That woman knows me too well," Scott...

Human ManChapter 12

Summer classes were something he'd always enjoyed, at least he thought he had. The condensed schedule, semesters measured in weeks rather than months should have been perfect for him. Instead, he felt restless. Things he would have let ride in the past bothered him. The little things, the bullshit, he didn't have the patience for it. Scott could feel anger, like a pressure building within him. Workouts helped, but the student athletic facilities didn't have a heavy bag. A million dollar...

Humans being turned

A vampire with crimson eyes sat in his Manson and he was bored since the last human he met shot him in the chest and left him to bleed to death after that his family forbid him from touching another Human girl for two hundred years. The time limit ended and it was time to have some fun! He walked through bars and took a bar chair and waited for a sheep without a Heard after while he was getting he made two sluts flirt with the least attractive men in the bar and then he saw it awkward, hoddie,...

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Human Toilet at the Club Pt 2

The bathroom around me smelled like stale piss. The underside of the toilet was stained brown and yellow. All I could taste was the bartender's salty piss. Despite all this, I found myself excited. The idea of being dominated so completely by these women felt right. I belonged here. A few hours passed and I had no visitors. Eventually, club music started playing loudly. I could only hear muffled bass, and the occasional group of women yelling in celebration. I heard the clicking of high...

HuMan Kind

I giggled as i opened the door... I was looking into a big muscled chest wrapped in a tight t-shirt. I gasped as I looked up into a pair of black eyes hidden behind a skimask :o I squeeled and jumped backwards to find out he also had leather gloves and a big bulge in his working man shorts :o His shoulders was as wide as the door opening. I stared shaking in fear and tried to close the door. But off course I couldn't. This was NOT the young guy I was supposed to meet :o "Who the fuck are...

Human Resources Associate

"How do you put up with all of this?" Cynthia Forester asked. She and Sandy were standing at the copy machine just around the corner from Sandy's desk at Hubbard & Associates. "Don't you get tired of the constant nudity and sex, the men groping you and wanting to, you know, all of the time?" Sandy looked at her friend in surprise. Cynthia was relatively new, hired in to replace one of the Admins when that woman had quit after maternity leave. She and Cynthia had been friends since...

Human Wheels

Foreword: This is a work of fiction. None of the people in this story are real. None of these events ever happened. This story is nothing more than words that came from my imagination. Any similarity to any real people, places, or events is purely coincidental. Operators of erotic story web sites, whether free or fee-based, have my permission to post my stories for public reading, provided that credit is given to "Hungry Guy" as the author, and as long as you don't make changes other than...

Human Mattress 2

Doug yawned and awoke. A ray of sunlight filtered in through the crack in the curtains on the single window of his dorm room. He lifted his head up and saw that it was only 9:18. Too early to get out of bed on a Saturday morning. The girl upon which he was sleeping squirmed a little. There had been so many girls the past few weeks that he could no longer remember their names. She couldn't move much because her ankles were shackled and tied tightly to the upper sides of the headboard with her...

Human PhoenixChapter 4

Summer 2006 The second week of summer vacation was half over, and Scott was considering which hobby he should take up. How hard could whittling be? Find a piece of wood, a pocket knife, and start carving. He was actually looking around outside the horse barn for a scrap of wood when he realized he didn't know where to find a pocket knife. This was Texas. You could sit in your homeroom class and discus deer hunting versus quail hunting, or the merits of your favorite rifles, but get caught...

Human PhoenixChapter 5

Friday, June 16, 2006 Friday at Mendoza's Engine Center started out like normal until the shop foreman announced that there would be a meeting of all employees from both shops in the big loading bay before lunch. There was a lot of confusion in the air as the employees began to gather. Scott overheard one fabrication shop employee telling another, "Just like my last job, they called us all in for the bad news." Everybody got quiet as the two foremen walked in. They were quickly followed...

Human PhoenixChapter 7

Veterinary Clinic, Fort Stockton, July 10, 2006 "Come on back Mr. Piotrowski. Wanda says you found him out near the Broken Creek Ranch?" the veterinarian was looking at the patient information sheet that Scott and Mr. Piotrowski had filled out. "My assistant, Scott, found him out there." "You've fed him some meat scraps, and cereal." "That's right." "Let's take a look," the vet carefully ran his hand under the dog's head and down his flank. "He seems to be very calm, good...

Human PhoenixChapter 10

Broken Creek Boys Ranch, October 27, 2006 It was time to get up and do his chores. Scott got up reluctantly, and splashed cold water on his face. He didn't look in the mirror. The t-shirt was where he had left it. He picked it up and examined it. The bullet holes were still closed over. He balled the t-shirt up and threw it toward the trashcan. Scott didn't want to wear it again. He went to the equipment shed and found a screwdriver. The brake handles on his mountain bike needed to be...

Human PhoenixChapter 12

Friday, March 9, 2007 Scott arrived early at Mr. Piotrowski's. His suitcase was already at the house, packed and ready to go. Mr. Piotrowski was dressed and ready, standing with a cup of coffee in his hand. "A little eager are we?" "Very!" replied Scott. "You might as well relax and have a good breakfast." Scott moved toward the refrigerator, "How does scrambled eggs and toast sound?" "Just toast for me, please." Jobe bumped his leg as he passed through the kitchen headed...

Human PhoenixChapter 14

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 It was another week before Scott finally learned about his college application. His post office box at Meritt's Corner contained a very thick packet from Midland College. Scott put it into his backpack without opening it. Outside in the parking lot he stared wistfully at Mendoza's Engine Center. Saying goodbye to all the men that he'd worked with over the last year had been more difficult than he'd imagined. They had wished him the best, and seemed genuinely...

Human PhoenixChapter 16

Thursday, May 3, 2007 The preceding weeks had been busy. Scott had found time to stop at the engine center to say hello. Mr. Piotrowski was right as usual. There were no hard feelings and in fact his old co-workers were delighted to see him. With Scott's assistance, Noah examined the Yamaha and declared that it was holding up very well. Scott did manage to have a short conversation with Rico Lopez. They would have talked longer, but Rico was a busy man. The big news from Rico was that Mr....

Human PhoenixChapter 19

August 25, 2007 Scott arrived at the law office bright and early Saturday morning. He'd slung a travel bag over his shoulder in lieu of his normal backpack. He didn't know what Honour told the judge, but he had blanket permission to travel with her. When he mentioned to Mr. Piotrowski that he was going to Dallas, he didn't even bat an eye. Scott had the feeling that the fix was in. "Why did you bring the bag?" Honour asked when she saw him. "You told me to?" "Oh, well you don't...

Human PhoenixChapter 20

Afternoon, November 15, 2007 Scott closed the truck door and watched as Jobe went to investigate a bush. He balanced the folded flag on top of the polished wooden box and walked toward the apartment stairs. Mrs. Monroe came out of the house and Jobe trotted over to her. He sat politely while she patted his nose. "I thought it was a nice service," Mrs. Monroe said. "It won't be the same without him around." "No, it won't," Scott agreed. "I thought it was a good turn out." Mrs....

Human ManChapter 4

The evening with Art and Lisa gave Scott a lot to think about as he drove out of Denver. Before the meal was over, Art expressed his surprise that Scott had gotten out and hadn't gone for an officer's commission. "It came so easy to you. We could all see that," Art had said. Scott had entered the Marines a grade ahead of his peers thanks to college credits. He made corporal at the end of his first Afghanistan tour, and sergeant before he deployed for the second. Their captain had...

Human ManChapter 5

Scott beat the sun out of Levall. He wanted to be in Midland before lunch and home to Fort Stockton by early afternoon. The GPS in the Jeep said it was a three-hundred mile trip, but for Scott it was like running downhill, effortless as he sped toward home. West of Abilene he picked up Interstate 20 and hit cruise control. He hit Midland shortly before ten. Midland was a city that drifted from boom to bust with the energy sector, oil in particular, and times were good once again. His...

Human ManChapter 6

State Highway 18 South took Scott into Pecos County. He drove on autopilot. The flat land of the Permian Basin changed to the low hills and miniature mesas common to the area. Occasional clusters of bobbing pumpjacks, extracting West Texas crude with each nod, were the only company on the empty road while a cloudless blue sky stretched overhead. Scott had tried, but failed to understand how people lived in large metropolises. Living like animals packed one on top of the other was no way to...

Human ManChapter 7

Scott parked on the street in front of Ed's rental house. He knew the area, but couldn't remember anybody who had lived on the street. The homes were mostly simple shotgun shacks, on the older side of town. He opened the SUV's rear door and let Jobe out. The dog looked toward the house and lifted his nose, testing the air. The screen door squealed open and Ed Mendoza, his best friend, held two bottles of beer. "Home is the conquering hero!" Scott met Ed on the porch and accepted a...

Human ManChapter 8

The extended stay hotel suite smelled faintly of pine. Some cleaning product, Scott thought. He plugged his laptop in and spread the property section of the Levall Daily Register across the kitchenette table. The suite had a small kitchen and combination breakfast nook, as well as a sitting area, work desk, and basic bedroom. He paid for a month with an option to extend. Levall had an active housing market, mostly oriented toward the student population, but active nonetheless. He noted...

Human ManChapter 9

Scott woke covered in sweat. The old dream of being buried alive with the spiders had mixed with memories of Afghanistan. He splashed water on his face from the hotel suite's bathroom sink and tried to clear his head. He needed a good long run. Scott drove to campus. He didn't have a student identification card, yet, but doubted anybody bothered to check at the outdoor track. The streets were empty with the sun still a half hour from making an appearance. He parked at the student athletic...

Human ManChapter 10

Simone texted him shortly after ten, he was needed at the bank to sign papers. Scott walked through the bank's front door thirty minutes later. After a quick inquiry, he was directed to a conference room. Simone nodded to him as he entered the room. The bank people were at one end, Simone at the other. She was wearing a dark ensemble with a string of white pearls around her neck. The fun flirty woman he'd come to know the previous night was gone, replaced by professional aplomb. "Good...

Human ManChapter 11

His first weeks as a 'big time' property owner had gone smoothly. An inspection by the Western Group property team hadn't turned up any major surprises. He never saw them. They'd been in and out before he even knew the inspection was happening. Scott grabbed a towel from his bag and wiped the sweat from his face. The student gym on campus had a great weight room. He'd purchased a mountain bike and was commuting from the extended stay suite to campus for workouts four days a week. The...

Human ManChapter 13

The five-member team of auditors and lawyers from the Western Group descended on Levall like a small swarm of locusts. Simone Engdale was not among them. A new bookkeeper, accountant, and local business lawyer were hired while the old bank accounts were closed. The Black Horse stayed dark for three weeks and Shirl thrived as the new manager. She had a new haircut and a can-do attitude. Scott saw her every couple of days to stay involved and show his support. Shirl purged the bar payroll,...

Human ManChapter 14

Midway through July, the second summer semester was in session and Scott had a regular schedule again. He biked to campus. Worked out, hit the library to study, attended class, and either headed back to the hotel suite or visited the Black Horse. He'd had a crazy notion to drop the second summer semester and try to get hired on as a day laborer, working on his own building. When he mentioned the idea to Everett Wahl in passing, the private banker had laughed. Scott had to be content with...

Human ManChapter 15

With a break before the start of the fall semester, Scott took the opportunity to hop in the Grand Cherokee and head to Fort Stockton. He'd thought about staying in Levall, but was feeling a little stir crazy. His contractor was taking advantage of the school break to close off Twelfth Street so they could crane timbers through the second and third-story windows of his future home. The salvaged heart pine came out of a nineteenth century industrial building in Oregon. The delivery was going...

Human ManChapter 16

Scott put the transmission in park and got out of the SUV. The private entrance to the old Lewis Sportsman Ranch brought back memories. Twin stone columns of native rock supported a steel sign curving overhead. He'd seen it when the sign was new. Since then, the sign had served as a target. Bullet holes and pellet marks decorated the rusting sign. The 'Lewis' name had borne the brunt of the damage. If the locals couldn't take their ire out on the man, they could vent their anger against...

Human ManChapter 17

The orange door to the climate controlled storage locker rolled back with a bang. Scott turned on the light and memories came flooding back. The pieces that had populated his teenage years didn't require much room. His first apartment's furniture was wrapped and covered with blankets. In the far corner, the Yamaha motorcycle was carefully stored away. Between were boxes, but for so little it sure took up a lot of room in his heart. Joseph Black had a second key for the locker. During...

Human ManChapter 18

Scott chose Texas highway 208 north of Snyder for the trip back to Levall. The highway was an undulating two-lane road that ran through the low hills. Small scrub trees and the ever-present pump jacks dotted the land. He was in a good mood. Lunch with the group from client services had been a light, but informative affair. The employees had great insight into the function of client services and the Western Group. Scott was still the firm's youngest client by at least two decades. If...

Human ManChapter 19

The Black Horse had new bracket sign hanging from a perpendicular piece of wrought-iron armature above the front door that read, 'The Black Horse, ' and in script beneath, 'Pub & Restaurant.' Scott sat at the bar listening to Shirl talk about the sign and her preparation for the grand reopening. The bar was in a lull, between the late-lunch crowd and happy hour. Shirl was ticking off points from a sheet of paper. Scott mostly listened and nodded. The grand opening for the...

Human ManChapter 20

The Student Union at NTSU was a good place to sit between classes. The burble from the students passing through was like white noise. Scott concentrated on his computer tablet while sipping coffee from a paper cup. Amanda, the Black Horse waitress, dropped into the seat across from him. "You're not in any of my business classes," she said. He put the pad down, "Because I'm not a business major. I'm leaning toward history." "What's your favorite class so far?" "A seminar on the...

Human ManChapter 21

September turned to October and the city of Levall was celebrating its first official Oktoberfest. For reasons that Scott didn't understand, the city had historically avoided the fall festival popular with Texas's many German enclaves. Instead, the city held a very successful Jazz Festival in the spring. The Jazz Fest wasn't going away, but the embrace of Oktoberfest was a welcome boon to downtown businesses and the student population of NTSU. The Black Horse was enjoying the celebration...

Human ManChapter 22

Scott was having coffee and a pleasant conversation with Connie. She was asking about Levall, when the wayward Mendoza daughter stumbled into the kitchen. Janie's hair was frizzy, and she was wearing an old nightshirt over pajama bottoms several sizes too small. "You're alive," her mother said. "I don't feel like it," Janie grumbled. Hair covered the young woman's face and she didn't look up. She moved like an automaton to the coffee machine, grabbed a mug from the cupboard and...

Human ManChapter 23

Thanksgiving break arrived before Scott was ready. He was biking from campus to his building. The last class before the short holiday break was over and his thoughts were on Fort Stockton. He begged off invitations home, and claimed that he was going to spend the holiday in Denver with Art and his girlfriend. He hated to lie, but the situation with Janie was confusing. They traded regular e-mails, and played phone or text tag several times a week. Janie told him about her plans to take the...

Human ManChapter 24

He rolled out of bed and stood. At first, the unfamiliar surroundings threw him. His brain caught up with his body, he was in the new place. His feet padded across the floor. The shower started with the touch of a button. The shower stall was large enough to hold group meetings in, but he didn't regret it as hot water from multiple nozzles pounded his shoulders. Extravagance was on his mind. The building was certainly a big one. Having the space pleased him, pleased his need for room to...

Human ManChapter 25

The heavy bag swayed from the power of his last punch. Scott removed the gloves and examined his knuckles. Even with sparring gloves, the skin didn't have the toughness it used to. He watched as the split skin healed. Another couple of weeks at the bag and that wouldn't happen anymore. The healing was something he could only stop with specific thoughts. He'd forgotten in Afghanistan. The slip had nearly exposed him. Only a painful reversal of his rapidly healing wounds kept the medics...

Human ManChapter 27

The Holiday Inn at Fort Stockton was new. The only available room was a suite. Scott took it without complaint and found it cleaner than the last hotel room he'd stayed in. He felt a little lost. Joseph and Honour had taken the kids, and Jobe, to visit one of their parents for the holiday. Judge Upcott, his wife Bea, Sheriff King, and his lady friend were in Montana. Scott was contemplating a nap when the cell phone rang. He answered it without checking the name because he had a good idea...

Human ManChapter 28

Scott had the windows down, despite the freezing temperatures, to help clear the evidence of Ed's passage the previous night. He arrived outside the Mendoza home at two on the dot. Fewer cars were present than the day before. He found Mrs. Mendoza, Connie he mentally corrected himself and a woman he recognized as one of her sisters, in the kitchen. "There you are," Connie said. "Luisa dropped by with your costume." She pointed to the ensemble hanging over the back of a chair....

Human ManChapter 29

One of many things Scott disliked about hotels was that the showerheads were usually at neck level. For a second, he considered ripping the offending piece of pipe from the wall to hold at the proper height. As he toweled his hair dry in front of the bathroom mirror, he analyzed his feelings. He wasn't really angry, he decided. He was nervous. The relationship with Janie was out in the open. Openness went against his natural instincts. He recognized that it was a serious character defect,...

Human ManChapter 30

The building in Levall felt empty as Scott scrolled through his digital music catalog. The selector landed on Alison Krauss. He'd been a big fan since Mr. Piotrowski had introduced him to her music. She had a remarkable voice and it filled the air around him. The tones were rich and acoustically perfect, but he expected nothing less from the stereo system and speakers networked across three floors. Music had always been a refuge, but it couldn't replace the empty gaps in his life. He put...

Human ManChapter 31

Classes didn't start until mid-January, and by then the residents of Levall had settled into the long slog of winter. The post holiday blues affected everyone, and business at the Black Horse was off its peak. Scott was laying into the heavy bag in the gym when his cell phone rang. "I'm at the gate," Taylor announced. "Be right out," he said. Scott jogged across the courtyard in his workout shorts and t-shirt. "You're going to catch a cold," She said. He unlocked the fence gate...

Human ManChapter 33

The midterm paper was due in an hour. Scott skimmed the text, looking for typos. All he needed to do was print it, bike to campus, and slip the paper in the basket outside the professor's office door. After that, he could start packing for the drive to Fort Stockton and Spring Break. His phone chirped and he checked the text from Janie. 'You home? I'll call.' 'Home, ' he typed. 'Have 2 drop paper at campus. B on road shortly after.' He verified that the printer had paper and was...

Human ManChapter 34

The downstairs portion of the Black Horse was crowded, more crowded than Scott had ever seen it. Canned music was playing over the speakers as the crowd milled about. On the temporary stage, the drum set and instruments were waiting for the musicians. Scott recognized a classic Hammond B3 Organ that somebody had managed to shoehorn onto the riser. He wondered what the organ was like to move from gig to gig. Scott did his best to keep Janie from being jostled by the crowd, but it was hard...

Human ManChapter 36

After a lazy but enjoyable Sunday, they got an early start Monday morning. Janie was excited about the trip, telling him all the places she'd gone to in Dallas while at Southern Methodist University. She wasn't paying attention as Scott drove to the municipal airport. He found the right hanger and parked. "What are we doing here?" Janie asked. "Where?" "This airport!" "I thought you wanted to go to Dallas?" He got out and went around to her door. "Your chariot awaits." She...

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