R Richard: 227 books

Despite his employment contract, Jal Vorn is one of the exiles to a unique planet with unknown long term heath risks.When he arrives on Blue Star World, his supervisor, Nartar Convre, tries to demote Jal Vorn from skilled computer programmer, to low paid clerk.Jal refuses and is fired, on the spot,...

Now, down at work, they have a sort of lottery type thing. You buy a ticket for a couple bucks and, if you win, they give you a night on the town with a hooker. You know the type of thing, hit a couple of strip clubs, drink some cheap champagne and get laid. You don't have to play, but guys tend to...

Young Paul and Paula, husband and wife, buy their dream house. They then both get laid off at work. Paul is big, hard and trained to fight. He finds work, collecting what's owed. However, he's not earning enough to pay the bills. Paula is a somewhat plain appearing lady, from a very repressed background....

Gary was exiled from a good job in the city to a miserable job in the dessert. However, it was either a miserable job or no job at all. The guy who exiled Gary also stole Gary's wife and his house. Gary uses the year in the desert to plan his return to the city. A key item in his plans is that any...

I have been a PayPal® customer for quite some time. I used a well known Internet service for my e-mail and all was well.Suddenly, I was denied access to my long time e-mail account.I quickly established a new e-mail account, with another well known Internet service. I had to use a slightly different...

This document is intended to tell the reader how to avoid a tax problem of the type that I had and/or how to win in an arbitration hearing, if it comes to that.I work as a consultant, an author and a stock/bond/option investor. As a result, I get Form 1099s from those that I deal with. If you work...

I laugh, “A really good hacker could convince the computer system to print the data to a file, the hacker's file. The hacker could then download the file, really delete the file and then make off with the data.” The lady nods yes and says, “So my computer people tell me. Now, what would the...

It's Christmas day and Kev runs into a few problems.(Kev's full name is Kogel/Evel Vitek 997: Hunter/Killer Android 997. Kev wasn't born. The Apfer created him from biologically engineered cells. Kev had been created, along with 1023 comrades, to fight the Krllk. The Krllk were an evolved-insect...

After a little instruction, Jav tries to ride the motorcycle. His first attempts are a bit shaky, but he quickly masters the art of balancing the motorcycle. His first attempt to turn the motorcycle results in Jav crashing and falling off the device.The military officer calls to Jav to find out if...

Po’ boy Jason Roll is trying to escape from a life of poverty. He dreams his dreams and then works to make them real. Then his job and his girl disappear, leaving his dreams crashing down. Maybe if Jason works hard enough, he can build new dreams. Excerpt from Dreams Crashing Down: My...

I flash back to a summer night, 40 years ago. Deanna and I duck out of a party at the lake and walk down the shore a bit. Deanna is anxious for sex and so am I. Afterward, Deanna tells me, "It's the first time I have ever done anything like this." I presume that she really means that it's...

Adrianna receives a letter and discovers that someone has taken one or more nude pictures of her while she was in a ladies gym locker room. The person or persons who sent the photo demand a lot of money, or they'll distribute at least one nude photo around town. The only hope that Adrianna seems to...

Go Naked In The Software, examines a situation where six girls and six boys decide to stay in an abandoned (but upscale) mining camp in order to have the complete secrecy that they need to develop a software application that will make them all rich. The girl's mothers won't let them stay in the mining...

Donna talks to the waitresses down at le Panorama and starts to plan what she and the customer rep's wife might wear to supper. I manage to talk to the customer rep on the telephone. The customer rep asks me, “Is le Panorama some kind of sleazy place that will turn my wife off? I have enough problems...