Stories tagged with "slavery"
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Home From Shopping

The limousine slowed as we approached a large, wrought-iron gate. It was flanked by two imposing brick pillars engulfed in iv…
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Human For Sale
A rush of fresh, clean air tumbled through my ragged lips as the rough burlap was lifted from my face. I blinked hard, disori…
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Flaunt Your Freedom
Freedom. Something I take for granted, although, I must say I don’t exactly know what it is. If you stop and think on how man…
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A Problem
New clothes, purses, shoes, hair cut, style in general and still he didn’t notice me. What the heck does a girl have to do to…
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You Ain't Nothing
A child no older than nine rushed trhough the forest, fear in his grey eyes. ‘I’m not like them,’ he thought. ‘I’m not human….
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What?

Those words. Where had I heard them before? They’d been said in a story that was told to me before. But… when? It confused …
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Pomp and Circumstance
Once we were suffragists. An auspicious band of nonsectarian brothers-in-arms, fighting for a laissez-faire nation of peace. ...
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Indecent Proposition

By the time the aliens responded to my message we were so close all we could see was their ship. The stars hidden behind a bi…
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A Time to Live, A Time to Die

Slime oozing down its legs the creature came nearer. Hate, tangible and real, glared from its eyes like an exploding star, bl…