- 1 - The next day I woke to the sound of birds outside, and sun streaming through the windows. It was Sunday, and normally I'd have been up and about early with Sam. But with her still away, I'd slept in late. I lay in bed, unmoving, stunned by the previous day's bizarre events. I scarcely believed it had happened, and yet knew that it wasn't a bad dream....
Chapter 1: Seduction Here in the borderland, any place with more than 5000 people is called a city. Small cities probably have an annual budget smaller than mine. On the evening this story began, that amounted to another three or four days before my pockets ran dry. The credit cards in my wallet had expired long ago. I sat at a table beside a picture-windo...
A quick fun story in the vein of the last one I submitted, this one about a huntress getting far more than she bargained for while hunting a demoness. ***** The forest sighed in the autumn breeze, tasting of frosty promise and long nights. Owls hooted, their wings gliding with a ruffle of feathered beats. Leaves stirred, hissing on outstretched limbs. Wate...
The first wave of attackers broke through the forest cover just as the sun rose. Within minutes, they were upon the prince and his traveling companion, furiously assaulting them with pitchforks, wood clubs and a few rusted swords. They were amateurs and the prince easily sidestepped their unskillful attacks, battering them with his heavy war hammer and beat...
- 1 - It was a beautiful warm day, and I had it to myself. My wife Sam was interstate on business for the week, and not due back for another five days. For me that meant housework to be done, but plenty of time to enjoy my own space, and entertain one particular hobby. I smiled to myself, and not for the first time, I stopped in front of a mirror and pulled...
Author's Note: Dreams and flashbacks will be marked with a ~ separator, rather than the normal dashes. Honey ---- Talos looked over the food stalls under the cold sun of an Isbryggan morning. He picked up another fruit he did not recognize and smelled it before returning it to the cart. He sighed, thinking how wonderful the world would be if all men we...
Mschuleft ---- Talos knelt at the gathering of stone and bones, examining it closely. He spoke quietly while picking up a skull from the pile. "Bones laid symmetrically, similar to the last one. Must be a shrine, then. If the Orcs revere this place, it could explain their absence," he continued to no one in particular. He found it strangely unsettling...
Cast Aside ---- Talos and Casiama approached the imposing, white-haired man standing before the dangling, suffocated corpses of two of the local peasantry, their weight immobile in the chill, faint breeze. The soaring stone towers of Imperia -- the capital of mankind -- stretched on the horizon, as if rising in defiance to the flat farmland surrounding t...
Morning. I blinked a few times and then opened my eyes, and lay there snug under the covers and listened to the pelting rain. I stretched my legs, and felt the delightful silky feeling of freshy waxed skin sliding against the sheets. It was a Tuesday, but I'd no intention of going to work - actually, I'd just about given up for the time being and told the of...
***So here's where I trot out the sidekick. For a male detective, if he has a male sidekick, it's often to inject a little humor. If the sidekick is female, she's often portrayed as being hopelessly in love with him. Shauna is Wesley's sometime sidekick, though he tends not to be shy at all about telling anyone that she's the mastermind, which is someti...