#❛ stella blair ─ discourse .

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stella’s lips curl into a knowing smile , a glint of mischief dancing in her eyes as she takes in bruce’s words, feeling the subtle quake in his voice as he speaks. she steps forward, a deliberate sway to her hips, reveling in the way his gaze follows every movement, devouring her form. her fingers trace up his chest, grazing over the skin exposed by his open shirt, each touch lingering just long enough to leave him breathless.

❛ oh , i know exactly what you want , ❜ she murmurs , her voice sultry , like velvet in the darkness of the chamber. her hand finds its way to his cheek, thumb brushing over his lower lip before her lips capture his knuckles again, her touch filled with that perfect blend of adoration and authority that she knows drives him to the edge.

she lets her hand drift lower , fingers ghosting over his waistband , just enough to feel his need for her, already evident and demanding. her smile widens, enjoying the sight of hell's mighty prince unraveling beneath her touch. he could command every soul here, own every inch of this domain—and yet, in this moment, he was hers entirely.

tilting her head , she leans in close , her breath warm against his ear . ❛ the throne sounds lovely, my prince, ❜ she purrs, letting her words wash over him, teasing and inviting all at once. ❛ but i think it’s you who enjoys being reminded just how much i belong there—with you. ❜

bruce watches her with FIERY passion. he's practically drooling with how her body looks when she's close; her cleavage and ass look amazing in the outfit—seeing it was WONDERFUL. like everything in hell, he could sense her outfit and her ENERGY but seeing her felt all that more beautiful. she was likely the only thing he had to see physically to be sated. in his pants, his cock was already BEGGING to be pulled out and pleased. it's embarassing to admit that the prince of the underworld wants to be pampered—even more embarassing to admit he wants to be taken care of by a woman who is effectively BELOW him.

kissing his knuckles are more than enough to illicit a soft hum from the male—one step removed from a full moan. she knew how to toe the line between WORSHIP and DOMINANCE, that was for sure. shivers run through his spine when she touches his chest. his opened button down magically undoing more of itself so she can keep touching his skin. PLEASURE always felt better after more souls were tortured; the only pleasure that took place in hell was in this chamber. and bruce made sure that he and his queen right hand were the only two who got to feel it.

"i felt their cries the second you started working." the prince says, feeling his body get WARMER with each word. "you're my right hand because i own you. as i do with everything in this domain." bruce reminds her, trying to hold strong on his percieved STRENGTH. if anything, he puts his metaphorical foot down only to watch her CRUSH him under her own confidence. she was a master at crushing souls, but he loved when she crushed him. 

"seeing as you're FINISHED with your duties today... why don't you come sit on the throne, with me?" bruce asks, raising his eyebrow knowing that he really means why don't you ride my cock while i sit on the throne. "i know how much you love feeling like the QUEEN."

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@NAC you had a list of books on your old page of recommended readings...but I can't find it now. Could you repost it?

I assume you mean this one ( I have this list on my web page with links included for the public domain stuff I could find…I try to keep it updated as I think of new things or find new ones.)

Young adult/childrenThe Little Prince by Saint-ExuperyWhere the sidewalk ends by SilversteinElla Minnow Pea by DunnSophie’s World by GaarderThe Great Good Thing by TownleyThe Jungle Book by Kipling Bridge to Terabithia by DiamondThe Westing Game by RaskingLillies of the Field by BarrettFlowers for Algernon by KeyesThe Wrinkle in Time Series(Wrinkle In Time, Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)  by Madeleine L’EngleThe Dark is Rising Series by Susan CooperThe Tripod Trilogy by John ChristopherThe Hobbit by TolkienCoraline by Neil GaimanEyes of the Dragon by Stephen KingThe Original Shanara Trilogy (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong) and Landover (Magic Kingdom for Sale, SOLD!, The Black Unicorn, Wizard at Large, The Tangle Box) by Terry Brooks by Elizabeth GeorgeThe Witch of Blackbird PondAdventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain 

Literature Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy & Frederika by Mark HelprinShakespeare (Especially Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, sonnets) Iliad   Odyssey   by Homer (I like the Fagles translation)Sophocles–Oedipus Trilogy ,  , Philoctetes , Women of Trachis Orestia by Aeschylus  Medea by Euripides Victor HugoLes Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dam by Hugo A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens To Kill A Mockingbird by LeeWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Complete works of Faulkner ( esp.The Sound and the Fury, Light in August) by FaulknerHoward’s End by Forster Diary of a Young Girl by FrankThe Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne Catch 22 by HellerGone with the Wind by MitchellFrankenstein by Shelley The Portrait of Dorian Gray , Importance of Being Earnest , An Ideal Husband by WildeThe Time Machine by Wells A Raisin in the Sun by HansberryNight by WieselThe Glass Menagerie by WilliamsThe Devil’s Disciple by ShawA Man for All Seasons by BoltCyrano de Bergerac by Ronstad (unless you speak French only the Hooker translation)Dracula by Stoker Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and LeeMagnificent Obsession by DouglasSilas Marner by George Eliot Decameron –Boccaccio A Modest Proposal—SwiftSelf-Reliance, The American Scholar, Experience—EmersonUp from Slavery—Booker T. Washington

PhilosophyA History of Knowledge by Van DorenThe Cave and the Light by HermanPlato (Euthyphro ,  Apology , Gorgias , Crito, Phaedo , Symposium , Republic )Aristotle (Metaphysics , Nicomachean Ethics , Eudemian Ethics , Politics , Rhetoric ,  Poetics )The History of Philosophy by CoplestonDiscourses on Livy by Machiavelli Ethical and Political Writings of St. Thomas AquinasAristotle for Everybody, 10 Philosophical Mistakes, The Great Ideas, How to Read A Book by AdlerCicero (On the Gods , On Duties , 1st and 2nd Philippics Superheroes and Philosophy edited by MorrisBuffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by South

HistoryHistory of the Ancient World, Medieval World, Renaissance World by Susan Wise BauerThe Forgotten Man, Coolidge by ShlaesHistory of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides John Adams by McCulloughFrom Dawn to Decadence by BarzunPlutarch’s Lives Cicero, Augustus by EverittLetters of John and Abigail Adams Washington by Ron ChernowThe Glorious Cause by Robert MiddlekauffLost Enlightenment by StarrReagan’s War by SchweizerPatriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart and AllenThe closing of the Muslim Mind by ReillyThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Economics/PoliticsWho Really Cares  and The Road to Freedom by Arthur BrooksThe World is Flat by Thomas FriedmanDave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by BarryDemocracy in America by de Tocqueville  The Law by Bastiat The Upside of Down by McArdkeSpirit of the Laws The Federalist Papers Adam Smith (Theory of Moral Development , Wealth of Nations )My Journey by BlairThe Conscience of a Conservative by GoldwaterLocke (Second Treatise of Government , A Letter Concerning Tolerance )Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich, On Wealth, Peace Kills by O’RourkeIn Defense of Globalization by BhagwatiNovus Ordo Seclorum by McDonaldBasic Economics, Civil Rights by SowellThe Next 100 Years by FriedmanThe Mystery of Capital by de SotoThe Road to Serfdom by HayekCapitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose by FriedmanNew Threats To Freedom edited by BellowA Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the Revolution in France  by BurkeThe General Theory by KeynesThe Origins of Political Order, Political Order and Decay by FukuyamaBourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Equality, Bourgeois Dignity by Deirdre McCloskeyCapital by Marx The Conservative Mind by Kirk

Other nonfictionPower of Myth by Joseph CampbellThe Universe in a Nutshell by HawkingFreakanomics by Levitt & DubnerThe Art of War by Sun TzuScratch beginnings by ShepardThe Tao of Physics by CapraShadowplay by AsquithHuman Excellence by MuarryThe Better Angles of Our Nature by Pinker48 Laws of Power by GreeneThe Story of Western Science by Bauer

Pleasure readingMan in the High Castle by DickBeat to Quarters, Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by ForesterThe Road to Gandolfo, Bourne Trilogy by LudlumBig Trouble by BarryEaters of the Dead, State of Fear by CrichtonRed Storm Rising by ClancyI, Claudius by GravesThe Walking Drum by L’AmourGates of Fire by PressfieldThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Ozcry It and The Green Mile by KingThe Agony and the Ecstasy by StonePillars of the Earth by FollettThe Historian by KostovaGrail Quest by CornwallThe Thirteenth Tale by StterfieldLamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Vampire Trilogy, The Stupidest Angel and Fool by Moore

Sci fi/Fantasy Mists of Avalon, The Forrest House by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (et. al)Dune Series by Frank Herbert (et. al)The Sword of Truth Series by Terry GoodkindWorks of Robert Heinlein (esp. Stranger in a Strange Land, Puppet Master, Starship Troopers, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Double Star)Good Omens by Gaiman and PratchettWatership Down by AdamsEnder’s Game by CardAmerican Gods by GaimanAnthem, Atlas Shrugged by RandHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Adams1984 by George Orwell2001–Clarke

Spiritual The Robe by DouglasLost Horizon by HiltonGod Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita by YoganadaThe Second Coming of Christ by YoganandaThe Tao Te Ching (best to read at least two translations)The Alchemist, Veronica Decides to Die by CoelhoAutobiography of a Yogi by YoganandaEvidence of the Afterlife by LongA Course in MiraclesThe Messengers by IngramThe Celestine Prophecy by RedfieldLife before Life by TuckerJonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by BachSiddartha by HesseKoranThe Book of CertitudeHoly BibleBook of Mormon

PoetryThe Prophet, The Broken Wings, Song of Man by GibranLeaves of Grass by Whitman  (esp. Preface, Song of Myself, I hear America Singing, Corinna’s Going A-Maying,When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, O Me! O Life!, O Captain! My Captain!)Works of Tennyson (especially The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Charge of the Light Brigade, For I dipped into the Future, In Memoriam A.H.H., Crossing the Bar, Ulysses)Works of T.S. Eliot (especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland, Hollow Men, Preludes-, Four Quartets)Divine Comedy by Dante (I like the Mandelbaum translation) Metamorphoses by Ovid Hesperides and Nobel Numbers by Herrick  (esp. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Argument of his book, Delight in Disorder, To His Conscience, Upon Julia’s ClothesFaust by Goethe Part I  Part II Works of Sappho, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Tu Fu (best to read several translations)Tagore (esp. Gitanjali)Spencer– Amoretti (Sonnets 1,8, 10, 35, 37, 67,68, 70,75, 79)Sidney —Astrophil & Stella (Sonnets 1,6,9,15, 31,39,45,52,69,71,72,87,89,108)The Passionate Shepherd to His Love—MarloweThe Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd—RaleighShakespeare’s Sonnets (all them)Meditation 17, Holy Sonnet 10, The Bait—DonneTo a Mouse, To a Louse, Auld Lang Syne. A Red Red Rose–BurnsThe Lamb, The Tyger—BlakeRime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan—ColeridgeShe Walks in Beauty Like the Night, When We Two Parted, Darkness, We’ll Go No More A Roving, When A Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home—ByronA Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing—PopeThe Measure of a Man—UnknownInvictus–HenleyPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi—Unknown (but probably not St. Francis)Ozymandias, The Flight of Love, To—, —ShellyOde on a Grecian Urn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci—KeatsSea Fever–MasefieldMy Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister—BrowningSonnet 43—Barret BrowningRemember, Up-hill, Echo, Promises like Pie-Crust, Lord thou thyself art love,—C.G. RossettiSudden Light, The House of Life, Soul’s Beauty—D.G. RossettiThe New Colossus–LazarusSecond Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, When you are Old, Lake Island of Inishfree—YeatsDo Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night—ThomasWork—Angela MorganThe Highwayman–NoyesCasey at Bat—ThayerJabberwocy, Walrus and the Carpenter, The Hunting of the Snark–CarrollDream Deferred, I too sing America– HughesThe Road Not Taken, Birches, Mending Wall, Fire and Ice, Out, Out–Frost

Short StoriesWilde (The Carterville ghost , The model millionaire , The nightingale and the rose  )Poe (Masque of the Red Death . Tell tale heart , Cask of Amontillado , Fall of the house if of usher , The Purloined Letter ,The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade  , Pit and the Pendulum , Mertzengerstein , The Duc De L’omlette , The black cat , The Murders of the Rue Morgue , Van Kempelen and his discovery , Mesmeric revelation )Hawthorne (My Kinsman Major Molineux , Young Goodman Brown ,  Rappacini’s Daughter , Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment , The Snow Image , The Minister’s Black Veil , The Maypole of Merry Mount , The Celestial Railroad , Sister Years  , The New Adam and Eve , The Artist of the Beautiful )O. Henry ( Lickpenny Lover , The Gift of the Magi ,After Twenty Years , The Last Leaf , The Cop and the Anthem  , The Clarion Call , The Skylight Room , The Buyer from Cactus City , The Duplicity of the Hargraves , The Furnished Room , Witches loaves , The Third Ingredient  , Spring time a la Carte  , The Green Door , By Courier, The Romance of the Busy Broker, One Thousand Dollars, Tobin’s Palm)Lovecraft—(The Cats of Ultar , The Outsider , Beyond the wall of sleep , Hypnos , The call of Cuthulu  , Dunwich horror , Dagon)EM Forrester (The Other side of the Hedge , The Machine Stops )Edith Wharton –The fullness of life Collins–Mr. Lismore and the Widow Bradbury—Exiles, Sound of thunderHans Christian Anderson –( In a thousand years  , Little mermaid )Ambrose Bierce–Occurrence at owl creek bridgeConnell–The most dangerous game Thousand and One nights–Aladdin and his magic lamp The necklace by Maupassant Anthony Hope–The Philosophy in the Apple Orchard Doyle (The Red Headed League , Scandal in Bohemia)Gilman–The Yellow Wallpaper Harrison Bergeron by VonnegutThe story of an hour by Kate Chopin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Rikki tiki tavi by KiplingThe ones who walk away from Omelas by Le Guin  Bartley the scrivener by MelvilleThe lady or the tiger by Frank Stockton Abbot–FlatlandJericho Road by Henry van dyke Henlein– (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, All you zombies, By his bootstraps, Waldo, Beyond this horizon)Philip K. Dick (We can remember it for you wholesale, Paycheck, Second Variety, The Minority Report, The Golden Man, Variable Man)William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, The Tall Men, Shingles for the Lord, Shall not Perish, Elly, Uncle Willy, That will be Fine, That Evening Sun, Red Leaves, A Justice, A Courtship, Lo!, Ad Astra, All the Dead Pilots, Wash, Mountain Victory,  Beyond)Mark Twain (The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County,  Diary of Adam and Eve)Washington Irving (Sleepy Hollow, ,  The Devil and Tom Walker  )Gelett Burgess–The number Thirteen , The MacDougal street affair  Lord Dunsany– The bureau d’exchange de Maux , The Exiles club , The Sword of Walleran  The mortal immortal  byMary Shelly The Adventure of the Snowing Globe By F. AnsteyThe Sleeper and Spindle by GaimanMark Helprin (Katherine comes to yellow sky, Ellis island,  Tamar)

PodcastsThe History of Rome, Revolutions

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stella took a step closer , her eyes tracing over his face with that quiet intensity she knew could unravel him. she could feel the energy he radiated, that endless pulse of hell that intertwined with her own essence, binding them together in a way that went beyond mere duty. every scream, every flicker of agony from the damned reverberated in her, and she reveled in how his attention held steady on her, like a focus sharpened to a razor’s edge.

she let his hand slide into hers , her fingers cool and elegant against his infernal heat . ❛ a war, hmm? ❜ she mused, her voice smooth as sin, eyes sparking with intrigue. ❛ the best ones always leave behind the most deliciously bitter souls, don’t they? ❜ her lips curved, and she squeezed his hand, pulling it up so she could brush her lips against his knuckles, savoring the thrill of knowing just how much he wanted her there, close and commanding. even if he refused to admit it outright.

her gaze flickered up , challenging him with a sly smile . ❛ you know as well as i do, bruce, i live for this. making them work for my mercy... then breaking them when they realize i never offered any to begin with. ❜ she let her other hand rest on his chest, feeling his pulse, a rhythm that matched the heartbeat of hell itself. ❛ i’m your right hand because i can do what no other can. i take those who think they’ve felt pain, and i shatter them. i give them hell in its truest form. ❜

she leaned closer , voice dipping into a low murmur . ❛ but i think you came for more than just to ‘check in’ on me, didn’t you? ❜ her thumb brushed his jaw, teasing, her smirk widening. ❛ you missed feeling my power—like you miss me every time you try to pretend it’s not there. ❜ her gaze softened briefly as she continued, voice a rich whisper. ❛ you don’t have to hide that from me, baby love. we both know hell wouldn’t be nearly as... invigorating without each other. ❜

bruce could sense all of hell as if it were a PULSE that resided all around him. there wasn't a corner in the endless realm that he couldn't FEEL. and still, he decides to focus all his energy into watching her. his attention has never been more focused. he TRUSTS her like no other. there has been no other being that could take control of the underworld like she could.

even when it was HIS job to torture the lost souls... he much preferred it to be her. there was something about feeling the PAIN of the damned, knowing that their suffering was at the hands of a beautiful GODDESS. he knows she's merely his underling, but he loves to think of her as his WIFE—a GOD, like he. and it has to do with her read on him. it always seemed like she knew him better than he knows himself.

does the God of hell like feeling noticed? surely not. feelings of BUTTERFLIES and wanting to be seen were for the Gods of other realms. yet, when she steps closer, he feels goosebumps on his infernal skin. "i was checking on you because i need to know my RIGHT HAND is doing her job." he decides to be coy, trying to retain his position of power as long as possible—sometimes making her WORK for her power over him was just as sexy to watch and FEEL.

"there's a war on earth." the demon explains, smiling proudly. "deaths are insurmountable and those that were RESISTANT were likely soldiers who have yet paid for their immoral crimes." he speaks matter-of-factly. in hell, words like these were simply NEWS; current events. "i felt how they longed to be back in the war... wishing GUNFIRE and EXPLOSIONS over the torture you gave them... you know i LOVE the feeling of souls that are broken by you."

now his hand reaches out for hers, BEGGING for contact. 

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stella moved silently through the chamber, her presence barely a whisper among the cold, twisted air of the sub-abyss. her steps were measured, graceful—each one drawing her closer to bruce’s throne. the weight of her task, her existence, was both a burden & a pleasure, but in this moment, with his eyes on her, it was something more. his gaze was unmistakable, filled with hunger, with want. she could feel the heat of it before she even reached him.

she stood before him, her own eyes flickering with a dark amusement, as if every secret he thought he held from her was laid bare. his question, simple as it seemed, had layers. she knew his casual demeanor masked the deeper currents underneath.

❛ my day? ❜ she echoed, her voice smooth & sultry, almost mocking the normalcy of the question. ❛ it was... satisfying. ❜ her lips curved into a subtle, wicked smile. ❛ the souls you sent to me were... particularly resistant today. but that only made it sweeter when they finally broke. ❜

she leaned in just slightly, letting her presence invade his space, as her gaze traveled over him. ❛ but you already know that, don’t you? you felt it. ❜ her voice dipped lower, seductive yet commanding. ❛ you always do. ❜

there was a pause, a beat of tension between them before she tilted her head, her expression shifting to one of teasing curiosity. ❛ why do you ask, bruce? have you been thinking about me? ❜

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tortourous screams echo in the vast sub-abyssal landscape. darkness creeps around the gothic architecture—a touch that is INSPIRED by the fears and delusions of the mortals that are dispatched. bruce looks over his kingdom with PRIDE. it's not as viscous as most would think, but HELL is still as horrid as many fear.

it's been sometime since bruce has needed to do the torturing himself. since finding stella, he's doomed many of the poor souls to ROT under her heel. it's beyond feeling powerful with the fact that she is created to carry out his tasks—it's LUSTFUL and SENSUAL, getting to watch her do what she does best: torture. 

he sits on his throne, calling for her with a wave of his arm and dismissing others with another. his eyes look at her with WANT. many of his underlings gossip why he hasn't made her queen. maybe he likes feeling above her—some speculate that he likes CONTROLLING her. only she could really know and, to most, she is a mystery. "how was your day?" the demon asks, trying to remain calm and casual as he feels her physical form get CLOSER.