“Babe, you forgot your mask; here.” I was about to argue, mostly confused for the moment. I had just settled on the train to head home, and a warm body had just sat down next to me. My focus was on my phone, setting up my after-work-train playlist; it took me a moment for the thought to cross my mind: was the comment towards me? “--Huh?” That was all I could get out when I looked up and over at the man sitting next to me....

"Charlie, come here a minute," his mother called him from downstairs. "Huh?" Charlie replied, pulling out his earphones. "Come here," his mother replied. "We're leaving now. Remember to lock the door." Sighing, he climbed out of bed with great effort and drawled himself out of his room. He looked over the banister to see his parents in the downstairs hallway. They were about to leave for their week-long getaway. This was...

Susy informed me that she was happy in our marriage and that I was the one for her. Well, me and my vast fortune of fifty million. Being twenty-five years older than the sexy Minx I had trouble keeping up with her high-maintenance lifestyle. Money was no object and she was free to purchase the finest clothes, and perfumes, and dine out at the best restaurants. But in matters of the bedroom, I lagged behind big time. So in...

The Innuids have been studying intelligent life throughout the galaxy cluster for thousands of millennia. It was only relatively recently that they began following the rise of humans on the planet known as Earth almost since the beginning. The initial probing of the humans decades ago had yielded positive results and thus it came to be time for the next stage of experimentation. They employed the use of hybrids, genetic c...