Chapter Fifty-Two ADRIANNA Riding a warg wasn't anything like riding a horse. With a horse, I felt the power of the beast as it beat its hooves against the ground, springing me forward with each stride. With a warg, I didn't even notice the ground it ran upon, for the warg didn't beat the ground, but ripped through it, its massive paws tearing into the ear...
Jace stood in a huff in front of the firing squad—err his boss in his office. Jace was lured off his path to the coffee machine into a closed-door session with Karl for the hundredth time talking about how sales were down and he needed to motivate his team better, blah, blah. Hearing the same speech he already memorized in lieu of his rendezvous with black w...
Darkness gathers and innocence withers. Braya, brave barbarian of the Eastern Mountain clans, at once the destroyer of the vile Morgana and yet her savior, is possessed by the sorceress's spirit, enslaved to her designs as much as her lusts. At her side rides Morgana's sole surviving son, Melehan, lover of malice and murder, together they quest to claim Came...
Edited by the incomparable Mr. Ken Scades. ***** The trick of meddling between an ascendant Goddess and her Synergist, a mystery Zhair'lo had decided to call "Talla's problem", was on Zhair'lo's mind for the entirety of the following day. He wanted to commune with her in the space where the two of them could share thoughts, but found himself unable to do...
Chapter 1 Assault on Tokyo Disclaimer: I am not making any profit from this work and I do not own Resident Evil. The target was moving slowly, the decomposing limbs hindering its motions as it hobbled between the skeletal ruins of cars in search of something only its death rotten brain could understand. Unable to see in the low light, it often stumbled b...
-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alanna Catriona, Imperial County of Catriona 27th of Zenith, 1282 D.f. -=-=-=-=-=-=- Alanna bobbed and weaved through the streets of Catriona this fine morning, wearing a modest-yet-enchanting dress of twinkling reds and browns. She hummed a tune to herself as her long, shining auburn hair flowed gently over her alabaster shoulders. S...
Part 1 (4727 words) "Okay Pari, don't freak out but-. . ." A dish slick with dish detergent slipped from Pari's grip and crashed into several others. It was loud enough to warrant a call from the neighbors who wanted to 'make sure everything was alright over there'. "I told you not to freak out," Odette said in the silence that filled the wake of the glas...
A note from After Dusk: All right readers, you spoke, I listened. No one was pleased with the previous ending of this story, so I had the Mods delete it and I started to rewrite it. Be careful what you wish for, though, because we might not end up with the same happy ending as before... If you don't recall, this picks up just before Mora runs off into the...
ELENA I peered through the brush, the pine needles tickling my face. The morning sun cast speckled rays through the green canopy, and bathed my target in a golden aura. I supposed the man was beautiful. His face was chiseled with elegant features, his hair was a mess of blond, and his body was bronze and lean, toned to perfection. His ears came to points i...
0. Haste The vessel pushed away as it rode the gravitational shock wave of the imploding star. The sudden expansion of the star's surface had cindered the world known as Home and now, as the celestial body's mass collapsed upon itself, the dark emptiness of space rippled as the planets that survived the initial trauma were torn apart and crushed to an eleme...