Copyright 2013 TG STONE Sometimes in life, everything comes to a sudden halt, and all your choices are taken away. You don't plan it, something just comes along and puts you on your back. In Josh's case, that meant literally. He stared up at the ceiling of his private room. His friends had visited him today, and stuck a big poster of a gleaming black mot...
Author's Note: This is a rewrite of the story I posted titled From The Heart just a week ago. A number of commenters felt it was too short, and I said I would rewrite it sooner or later. I decided on sooner, and incorporated several other criticisms into this rewrite. I hope you find this improved. I left the original in place, in case you choose to compare...
It had been a long, intense day of travel, but even as the sun started to dip over the edge of the horizon, the last few steps were taken, and you looked upon a gaping crevasse, the entrance into the dreaded halls of Drath'nalak. Inside was rumored to be wealth beyond measure, anything from simple piles of gold to enchanted jewelry, magic tomes, technologica...
The early morning fog hung low to the ground, like a misty blanket, and the breaking dawn cast long shadows, as we headed into the sun. The landscape consisted of sparse vegetation and sporadic groups of trees and rolling hills. We flew close to the deck as possible, trying to use the element of surprise. This wasn't like many of our search-and-destroy miss...
The early morning sun breaks through the parted pink drapes of your bedroom and casts warm rays of light across your toned belly. You yawn, stretch, and smile at the warmth of the day. It's going to be a good one. You clamber out of bed and peek at yourself in the mirror. Your fashionable lopsided blond bob is fashionably lopsided and mussed up from the pill...
She looks at you with those pretty blue eyes. The confusion and pain on her face stabs you with guilt for what you have just said to her. You feel like the biggest asshole in the world. "But I don't understand," she says in a cracked voice, and you can see the tears are going to start coming soon. "I thought you loved me!" Fuck. This suck...
In and out of consciousness, I caught glimpses of his face. He was barely familiar to me, like someone out of a dream and with time bending over and through itself under a haze of narcotics, I couldn't be sure if I remembered him from two hours ago or two years. Just as I began to focus in the bright afternoon light streaming through my bedroom window, a sha...
Susan O'Malley grimly watched the nurse work, wincing in pain as he lathered her entire lower arm with plaster. "Dammit, how the hell could I have been so clumsy?" she growled, sitting in an ill-fitting johnny on a gurney at the hospital where she'd been taken hours earlier. "It happens, ma'am," the young nurse said, trying to help. "We see these injuries...
Chapter One Twenty-eight days before Christmas I found myself in a remote, fortified camp in what seemed to be a million miles from nowhere. I am Lieutenant Eric Steiger, United States Navy, and I command a mixed unit of Marines and Navy SEALs. Our mission is to gather intelligence on arms being transported from Iran into Afghanistan. "Hey, Lieutenant. Th...
Venice at Carnevale is another world. The mist lies on the canals. Away from the Grand canal, the alleys are dark and ill lit. Through this murky evening hurry two figures. Both wearing long, hooded cloaks. The first, taller figure is an eighteenth-century Cavalliere, with the mask of Casanova, and wearing a tricorn. Following him closely, her fur-trimmed ho...