The Aphrodite Virus began, like most others in recent years, in a town in the corner of China. Some experts speculated that it was a government project gone wrong, while others theorized that fisherman had hauled in some unknown deep sea bacteria and unwittingly released it into the marketplace. Ultimately nobody really knew the truth, or if they did, they w...
Rains, cold and winter. The impatient penitence of the lashing winds and the pitiless drops of rain slamming against the windows of the world. Standing in the ancient manse, this moment caught and broken apart by the self immolation in cold slashing wind fire, against the windows and the walls and the roof, none of which are capable of supporting us, not now...
(Many thanks to Northlander for the final paragraph, and to Dawnj for editing and smiles!) * Hal Danvers stood on the old stone bridge. It had taken him quite some time to cover all the distance from his home to the road and on to the river, and he sat down on the seat of his Zimmer frame, panting. His son, his only child, had come over for Christmas wi...
Chapter 1 – Crash-landing The pilot turned back and smirked at Paula and Noel. "How are you girls?" he asked. "It's getting boring," Paula replied and slumped into her seat. Noel hemmed, then took out a comb and brushed her curly brown hair. The little Cessna rocked slightly and tilted. The pilot studied the dials. The engine started to whir louder. "...
Chapter 6 -- TIMELY To say that I spent the following two days in anticipation would be an understatement of epic proportions. I won't even go into details. Come Friday evening I was already considering running away, but the same thought that made me want to run away was also keeping me in place... Megan. And I wasn't even sure how she might react if she f...
As I lie on the cold wet ground, a broken, blood soaked body, with the stench of death and the acrid taste of nitrates filling my nostrils. The pale grey smoke starts to lift from the body strewn battlefield where I lay. Decimated and broken bodies lay everywhere around me. I lay on my back in blood drenched field looking towards the heavens, slowly slipping...
After a lot of confusion Martin Christie found himself deep in the crowd that had formed under the big evil's finger. He had died and he was in a place that he regretted ever going to or ever even believing had existed for that matter. All that surrounded him now were lost souls who lived in a dangerous state of morbid bliss feeding upon one another every wa...
The headlights of the bus flashed brightly, cutting through the darkness of the inner city. It swerved around the corner, lights slicing through the falling rain. Pandora sat at the back of the bus gazing through the lashings of water descending from the vast expanse of black that was the sky that night, a void broken only occasionally by flashes of blue f...
"If you ever need me, regardless of where you are or the time of day, call me." Trevyn had said and Trev always kept his promises to her. In the year she had known him he had never let her down. Why had she not trusted him? Most of all, why had she not listened to him? "He is going to kill you if you stay." He had stated the last time she had seen him. "No...
Chapter 26 I found myself having casual, mind-blowing sex in the middle of being chased by killers and fearing for my life, which made the latter not so pressing. Jared and I were in a bubble that was all about exploration. Sex with him freed me from my past in a way that I refused to examine or nitpick. I just went with it and let go of the ultimate victim...