Maida grit her teeth as she lugged the heavily laden basket of potatoes back to her parent's house. The sun had not yet burned off the early morning fog and the young woman relished the cool mist. Summer had fully set in and the sun spared no mercy for those that worked the fields. Maida grunted and lifted the basket higher, lean muscles tensing under the lo...
The dawn is heavy with moisture, droplets of dew weighing down my whiskers. I pad quickly through the lush jungle growth, sleek black fur glistening, not stopping once to hunt or sleep. He is out there somewhere and must be found. That knowledge exists above any other, above any desire for food or sleep or to bask in the sun's rays. Faint sounds linger in...
The succubus seemed to glow with an unnatural heat that flowed from her naked body in waves, and an overpowering perfumed scent filled the air. The scent and the heat seemed to cloud my mind, inspiring a kind of dizzy arousal. Suddenly the world seemed hazy and distant and dreamlike, the memory of where I was slipping away. She smiled as I came close to her...
I wake up feeling…odd. Stiff. It's so hard to move….wait, I can't move. I'm…tied? Chained? What? Am I gagged? How…? A little light. One candle, Just enough for me to see…Her. Smiling. Looking down at me. Amused at my being so helpless. She's tied me to her great big bed, spread-eagle and nude but for a silk drape over my hips. I'm so embarrassed, so upset,...
Author's Note: Second edit pass complete! Check out my bio for details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~Beatrice~~ The ball didn't last long after that. Antoinette left, and she took Jack with her. The poor kid looked pretty scared as the most powerful Kindred in the city dragged him off with a firm grip hand-in-hand. He'd looked Julias's way, wi...
~~Natasha~~ It wasn't the first time Tash had been close to an explosion. Working for the Invictus, they had all sorts of toys for dealing with the Carthians. They weren't allowed to kill other vampires, lest they trigger a war, but sometimes blowing up a car, or a cellar, or even a whole building, was required to send a message. She was familiar with the k...
Morning came and I awoke to the sound of many feet scampering past our tent heading toward the road. Not to be left out of the mad rush to the road I willed myself out of bed and dressed myself in the simple white with blue pinstriped man's shirt I had on the previous evening, ran Shilka's brush through my unruly mane a few times before exiting the tent. It...
Chapter 02: Cat Toy Gods are fickle things. Fickle and numerous and given to flights of fancy. Or, sometimes, fits of jealousy. And then, rarely, a god will take interest in our world long enough to assert his or her or its influence on events. Demons fear when a god looks askance at their doings and humans are frail things in comparison. Frail and pliable...
Assault on the station As the troops were moving towards the station the EU troops floated up next to them. She passed a fiber line to the commander of the others and they started making plans. They had already talked but as they were moving closer aspects of the station were becoming clearer. Even as their suits had the flat black EM paint so did the stati...
When Jeff found himself awake at 3:00 AM, he knew in his gut something wasn't quite right. He had always slept soundly, never had any problems with insomnia... but on that night, he couldn't quite coax himself back to sleep. He looked at the digital clock on the wicker nightstand and watched it count up to 3:02, 3:03, 3:04... The green numbers glowed and shi...