To call the past week surreal would have been the understatement of several lifetimes. Vidya had been there when Captain DuPont -- for reasons that still baffled her -- split the research team into two divisions. One, the larger, would be sent down to the surface of Arcadia, to continue researching magic in safe environment. This had struck her as odd. While...
Confederacy Triumphant Chapter 6 - Year 3 of the Yuuzhan Vong War Leia stood on the surface of the living world Zonoma Sekot, still amazed at the differences between this world and her home of Dathomir. Beside her was the man who had brought she and her Singing Mountain sisters to this strange world. Her brother Luke Skywalker. "What do you mean we're lea...
A Creekside Park Story Author's Note: This short story takes place in a fictional setting and contains elements of racism, including words that could potentially be offensive. Readers that are sensitive to this sort of material are advised to look elsewhere. Otherwise, please enjoy. * In the depths of Louisiana, in a place called Jefferson Parish, the Cre...
"Ajei, you've been bitten, you now bear the curse of the Skin Walker, when the next full moon rises, you will become one of them, we should kill you for your own good," those were the last words that my father, Hashkeh Naabah, Chief of the Navajo Nation, said to me, the night I came back from collecting fruit in the woods. I got attacked by what I thought wa...
Rooster had just finished talking to his former publisher, letting him know that he had gone over and finished the second novel of his trilogy. It was an exciting, wonderful conversation, one that had Rooster bristling with happiness, and he couldn't help but wonder what exactly he had been so scared of in the first place. Was this 'actual' happiness he wa...
Piper Cherry, in her daily wanderings subjected herself to overseeing classroom participations, just to understand the bonding techniques each Teacher had with their students. Starting with History Teacher Dewey Knowles class in session, she stood in his doorway just to witness his approach. Long before he noticed her he divulged a personality that caught he...
Minerva's eyes flew open, the feeling of anxiety that she had experienced was back and was much worse. The voices were now demanding that she come to the woods now and leave "the man" where he was because he would know where she went and that was just fine. All of the voices were clamoring in her head at the same time but there was a new one and this one ide...
WARNING TO READERS - This is a long, rambling, multi-part story and VERY British. The individual chapters will make more sense if read in sequence. * Chapter 11: Wet and Dry With Debbie As I drove to work Monday morning I thought about what was happening. Since that first night in September my entire world seemed to be centred on the seduction of women...
Chapter 12 The Color Barrier as Bill Saw It & Albert Spalding Bill's host, the Reverend Howard Pentecost's brown eyes crinkled at the corners. "C'mon," he said, "we'll be more comfortable in my office." He led me up the aisle to the front of the church then turned to the right. We went through a door and I found myself in a small, but very comfortable off...
Not clear for the reason meeting at this exact location. I was a little early as was expected. She was explicit to wait for her in the corner of the concourse of RSW by the Thomas Edison statue next to the electric car which he invented in 1903. Still runs it says. And there she was walking briskly to me with not much of a carry-on. A red suitcase with whee...