Chapter Six – The Graveyard of Virtue The architecture of Sevérckt nad Gorádki was similar to the northwestern section of Danka's hometown of Rika Héckt-nemát, where the city's wealthier families lived. However its setting was completely different. Instead of sitting in a flat river valley, Sevérckt nad Gorádki was built on a hill and surrounded by steep hi...
This is just a oneshot fantasy story I wrote during my break earlier this year. Hope people enjoy it! - Fires burned all across the horizon. Parvaneh braced herself against the battlements, trying not to let it affect her. It hurt to see her kingdom on fire, but it was almost worse to try to estimate how many of them were enemy campfire...
8: Hot Lips In a ten room apartment just off Fifth Avenue on 65th Street, Mr. Phelps Phelps was leaning forward to touch his wife's chin with the fingers of his right hand. Mr. Phelps was standing and Mrs. Phelps was sitting just in front of him. Mr. Phelps wore a dark suit, a gray silk tie, a white handkerchief in the left breast pocket of his jacket. Mrs....
Eliza marvelled at the old stately Manor as her taxi made the transition from barely paved road to gravel pathway. Sure the Pennington estate was long derelict and working for the National Trust seemed a bit menial for a Cambridge graduate, but without anyone who wanted to vouch for her, curator of an obscure part of history was better than the myriad of job...
No calls to adventure in this chapter. This chapter and the next are transitional, 'normal' days, showing how our heroes are living their lives in Solais after their encounter with Casiama. Fair warning that this chapter starts slow, since there's two months of history to catch up on; Sun's Rest being our December, and the previous chapter ending in early No...
Bloodfang Chronicles: Dawn of the Beginning Chapter One - Surprise! The sun is high in the sky, the new day has arrived, and what a day it is. Birds can be heard singing in the trees, and the wind can be heard rustling the leaves and branches, along with the rest of the greenery growing in the fertile earth. "Mm...what time is it...?" A large, black furr...
+++++ Huntress of the Fallen +++++ The following tale is my entry in the 2020 Halloween Story Contest. It acts as both a sequel and the final act of a trilogy that began with the 2016 Halloween Contest First-Place Winner "Sisters of the Fallen" and continued in the 2019 Halloween Contest First-Place Winner "Redeemers of the Fallen". I hold no expectation of...
Chapter 57: A New Dream The drive back was uneventful, and the rest of the day was spent to put things away, plan our agendas and come back to real life. Weeks came and went, and we had one major problem. The due diligence we had ordered when we had looked at the company in Southern Australia was full of flaws, and I assumed that fraud was involved. It too...
"It's gonna hurt, honey," Miss Maggie said. "I'm not tryin' to scare you, but I won't lie to you either. It's gonna hurt." Everybody knew that she could be cruel to her lovers, when she wanted to be. But whatever else you could say about Miss Maggie, she was always honest. "I'm not a malicious woman, but I've got my needs," she continued. "Sometimes, eve...
Chapter 5: Family Mel Sanchez was the love of my teenage life, she was pretty and fit and kind, we've been friends since we were both 12, and since then she's been the target of my affections ever since. She was the first girl I ever came out to, and the first one who rejected to me, I tried to kiss her and she freaked out. She didn't tell anyone but we ne...