Turning around I saw Blackness approaching to land in the back of the village. Majestic ship was pretty in the green and blue landscape, the metal was strangely calming the way it bounced sunrays of its hull. Paul and Jerry left back to their posts I assigned them few minutes ago leaving me alone with Anna. The silence between us was calming me, I did not k...
In this third segment a new female protagonist is introduced. She's occasionally referred to as a child. The author categorically states if the character came to Earth from The Known World modern science would prove she has lived a minimum of 18 years (or as the inhabitants of The Known World would say: "What is a year?") They have a different concept of tim...
Chapter One Capua, Italy 73 B.C. They were finally free. No longer would they be forced to fight and fuck for the amusement of the Romans. Yet, their journey had only just begun and the worst of the hardships still lay ahead. Only 73 Gladiators managed to escape Battiatus' Ludus, as well as several female slaves and the Ludus' medico, out of the 200 men...
Rest at last, she thought to herself as they sat by the camp fire, finishing off their meals of curreid goat jerkie, maize-pudding and palm-wine, and settling down for what was to be their fourth night in the bush. She stretched her kahki-trousered legs out across the ground as Mkwambe, a local tobacco farmer and her chief guide for the journey, poked absen...
Introduction Three hundred years from now, the world is very different. The Great War has decimated the human population and left large areas of desolated nuclear wasteland. The war destroyed most of civilisation's infrastructure leading to the Great Fuel Crisis as the world ran desperately short of stocks of fossil fuels. At the same time, global warming h...
Author's Note: Sorry about the extended wait on this one! Life keeps me busy. Edited by Expoh, AnnabelleFalls13, Michael Scott, Zald, and I.C. **** Vuntha stood at the top of the hill. Behind him, down the slope, lay the sprawling encampment of the People-Under-The-Mountain. The once-bustling tent city was emptied, devoid of activity but for the wind whi...
Ad A Mal Ga, or Mal as his family called him, knew he was in trouble. The spirits had abandoned him when the land shook and his whole tribe slid into the ground before it closed up. He heard Toa Gin's screams for a second before they ended in a strangled groan. He'd dug in the ground to try to find them but he'd only found Toa Gin. From the waist up. Her clo...
**DISCLAIMER** PLEASE DO NOT GET OFFENDED BY THE TITLE! I am black, but I am also American Indian of the Blackfoot and Creek tribes. Also, the characters in the story are over 18. I didn't specify their ages in the story, so I just wanted to make that clear. This one is the last of the series, and because of that, I decided to add another impromptu love scen...
Summary: In years long past, Jianna's family had ruled over the rich and plentiful lands of Quilan before being ousted by the conquering forces of the Highlanders. Since that time, Jianna has led a life on the run and was raised by a handful of her bodyguards who groomed her to retake her throne. Now she leads a rebellion against the Highlanders and is on th...
The City of the Sun God was crumbling. Once, the city of glass had been maintained by the same Atlantean technology that had helped stabilize the Savage Lands. But while that verdant jungle had become self-sustaining, the city had not. Many of its people had left for one local tribe or another. More still had been killed for disloyalty, speaking blasphemy ag...