Two nights after Meele's startling revelation, I perched atop the chimney at Samu's house, alone in the darkness. Samu was off on a three day trip to Okinawa with Danny and Meele was pleading for more time from the Yukoi Council of Elders. They had this lovely idea that it would be nice for me to come visit again and both Meele and I disagreed. The fact I co...
Chapter 11 Lynn's younger sister, Gwen, comes for a weekend visit. The words did not register. I heard them but did not understand them. What nonsense is she saying to me? How can Lynn be dead, when I was just with her early this morning? "There was a crash...Lynn's dead...Lynn's dead...she's dead." I pushed her away and sat up in bed. "Lynn! Lynn!" I j...
Mint loves her, but she is dangerous. She spent ten years on the arm of a crime boss in the throes of rising power, a crime boss with cresting ruthlessness and a one track mind. He is sending the very arms of his organization to kill her for something she should have been able to do freely. Montana doesn't care about the money, Mint is sure of this. He wants...
Disclaimer: This is a work of pure fiction. In tribute to Halloween, I have very loosely based the premise of this story on the cancelled Showtime TV show, DEAD LIKE ME, whose premise I always found witty and a quirky look at life after death. The characters in this story as well as the writing are all my own creation, however the basic ideas were adapted f...
Derrick wondered if picking up a hitchhiker would be such a good idea. He normally frowned on such things, but when he saw the woman on the side of the road, shuffling along sadly in her flowing white dress, he felt an unaccustomed twinge of pity. Why he felt pity he had no idea, for though she seemed sad she was beautiful and didn't seem the type to need an...
This is a Valentine's Day contest story. Please vote. * A man is stalked by a ghost, albeit a beautiful ghost, his dream woman. Did you ever feel you're being watched and that someone is following you, stalking you? Feeling so disconcerted that you turn around and every time you do, there's no one there and you're alone with your bad self and your paranoi...
Chapter 36 - A summer of Public Penance Jason and Cecilia spent their first summer in Upper Danubia with their days divided between learning the Danubian language, their household duties, and relaxing. The first priority, of course, was learning how to communicate in a city where very few people spoke English. The daily routine included six hours of intensi...
MARY SMITH. HANGED FOR MURDER. 31st. OCTOBER 1873 "I don't like this!" "Oh yeah," he sighed impatiently, "What's wrong with it." "It's dark," she continued to complain. "Of course it's fucking dark; it's ten thirty at night at the end of October," he replied irritably, "What do expect...blazing fucking sunshine!" "Please don't swear at me Andy," she sco...
I wonder why a little, why the gods above me who must be in the know, think so little of me, they allow you to go. -- Cole Porter I. The year before the Shogun banished the foreign missionaries from his lands, sending them back to Portugal, or whatever hell they had once arisen from, something queer happened. Far away in the unfashionable north, in a lo...
"Ygor, will you please stop saying that," barked Dr. Anne Frankenstein. She felt her last nerve fray. The butler, Ygor shook his head. "It is just that after all these years to find out the villagers were right. That your grandfather, and now you, brought the dead to life. It's amazing." "It's nothing if the villagers find them first," Anne snapped. "We'll...