Draconic Plaything by Lou Bealy Commissioned by anonymous Support my writing by becoming a subscriber on Subscribestar ! Get access to exclusive content and benefits! If you would like to commission me for a custom story, details are here Steven thought he was having a bad day when he overslept and was late to work at the car wash. He thought it couldn’t get much worse when he was subsequently fired by his boss for being late for the fifth or sixth time that month. He then thought it definitely couldn’t get much worse, but he would soon be proven quite wrong. Not that he cared too much about that job, but he needed the money. He had dropped out of college but still had loans to pay, as well as all the normal living expenses. His roommate and best friend Robert probably wouldn’t appreciate him not being able to pay his rent. He decided that he would pick up a bottle on the way home, to help soothe the sting of how bad his day had been so far. He didn’t have a job, so w

The Perfect Bride by Lou Bealy Commissioned by anonymous Support my writing by becoming a subscriber on Subscribestar ! Get access to exclusive content and benefits! If you would like to commission me for a custom story, details are here . Joe didn’t know why his mother had called a family meeting for Sunday night. He knew Grandma Beatrice had taken a bad fall and was in the hospital. She had mentioned her condition had turned for the worse the previous day but she clammed up about any updates since then. He knew that his sisters May and June would be there as well to get the news and if either of them knew anything about it, they were just as tight-lipped as his mom was. He just had to wait until dinner on Sunday in order to find out what was going on. Whatever the news was, it had to be pretty big. He had never been that close to his Grandmother but she was the Matriarch of the family, and a terrifying one at that. Her husband Lou was always quietly and dutifully carrying