Deceivers Among Us Due to Orin's humble beginnings, he had never been wealthy, nor could he imagine how opulent the lifestyle of a person of noble lineage could be. This privileged status soon became apparent to him, after the last of the ogres were hunted down. Lady Oryala sent a messenger to her kingdom, a full four days' ride away. Following another four...
Chapter 8 Saïna It was dusk when Saïna appeared before a very small humanoid. "What is your order Mistress," she said, bowing slightly. The small creature gawked in terror, immobile with the stone Tablet at her feet. She had long pointy ears, starting on the side of her head like any human and reaching almost as high as the top of her head. She had very l...
On the island of Indonesia, Jack Archer was beginning to wrap up his workday. With the recently solved murder of Riaja Somalinggi on his mind, and seeing Asal on the island, he couldn't think straight. The events of the day had really gotten to him, and knowing that Baxter was somewhere on the island, about to be captured by the evil scientist Professor Metc...
The Scandal At Tooker's Ferry Tooker's Ferry was established, naturally, by a man of several generations past named Tooker. The Drowning River running past the ferry had a current high and swift enough to drag both men and pack animals into its clutches, most of them to their doom. It was twice as wide as a man could throw a weight of one stone. At first, o...
I turned sixty-one this year. That was something of a surprise to me. I didn't think I would turn sixty-one, ever. Most of my life I believed I would be dead before I was thirty. I thought that even after I turned thirty. Then I thought I'd be gone before I was fifty. I had plenty of evidence that I might be right. I had been in three plane crashes and I've...
The moon rose full and bright as Demitri treaded through the halls of the manor. The mistress would be rising soon, there was much to be done. When he finished lighting the candles that lined the hallway he swung the heavy plank door on it's hinges. An eerie creek echoed against the stone walls. After lighting the wall torches he set about laying out clothin...
————————Prologue———————— Archer parked his car and took a minute to make sure nothing was on the seats or visible anywhere that could attract attention. The last thing he wanted was to come out to broken windows and a missing cell phone, his car ransacked and no way to contact the police. But everything was clear, so he locked up and stretched a bit as he l...
The first day back on duty onboard Enterprise was an absolute nightmare. Everyone kept staring at me and talking in whispers as if I was already on my deathbed, I later found out why. Trip caught up with me at the science station in engineering, which was my first place to check the upgrades. He was trying to work out how I had gotten married to a Vulcan wom...
You all heard of the Mirror Universe in Star Trek but other shows have there own dark side. They all have their own twisted counter part. A place that is a corruption of what the other part holds dear Buffy Mirror Universe- this is the one where the Slayer is evil. Apparently when they made the first slayer they made a mistake. The people who created the sla...
After Vera was led out of the wash-chamber, Dravo climbed out of the rock cleft. He'd no sooner landed on the chamber floor than he heard footsteps in the tunnel. He stepped behind a boulder. Two monkeywomen entered with Salema. They took her robe and guided her under the waterfall. She washed with the soaproot and wiped herself with spongeleaves. The women...