Cindy let out the breath she was holding, trying her best to relax, shining her mag light torch left and then right, staring down the length of the tunnel she was in. She was sitting against one wall, a map spread between her legs, trying to see where exactly she was going. She was dressed in hiking gear, with a heavy pack on her back with mountaineering pi...
Author's Note: The creatures in this story are referred to by generic names like Dragon, Unicorn and Uncle. They have real names of their own, but these names are nearly impossible for humans to pronounce and very difficult to transcribe into any human alphabet. It is therefore easier to keep all names in this story as generic names. Dragon was sunning hims...
* He was having that dream again... the memories of his past flooded through his mind. He was falling, falling fast through the sky, his Dragon form was in tethers, dripping his own blood as he fell. He forced his eyes open to try and get his barring straight on his location. He knew the green hills immediately and he groaned. As if he wasn't screwed enough...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 (For Robin, who asked me to write a story about dragons, elves, and unicorns . . . . ) Melissa came awake with a start, her heart beating in great excitement. Her husband Tim had turned over in his sleep, tearing her from the world of dreams, and the transition was so jarring that she almost...
Transference! The water of the shower ran hot; the small beads trickled down the figure of a woman of fair skin. Her shoulder length black and blonde hair clung together from the water. The tall slender woman just stood, letting the water run down her body. Her mission hadn't gone so well, and she wanted to wash away the shame of the incident. She shivered...
So my new life started six weeks ago. My youngest graduated high school, his father finally accepted that he and I were finally done and over with and I was leaving. The house was already in a purchase and sale agreement, its contents going with it, and all I wanted to keep packed and shipped off. I'd found a small two bedroom apartment, four blocks down f...
It started with a phone call, at most inopportune time. My cell phone was blowing up while I was demonstrating my patented hucklebuck position to my cute neighbor; Jill. The constant clattering of the phone vibrating across my night stand became too much for me to ignore anymore. "Hello?" "Who's this?" a female voice inquired. "Whose phone did you call? I...
CHAPTER 15: Falling in love & flying from fear Kendra woke from her impromptu nap in her tiny airship feeling groggy. Her entire body ached and was sore like she'd done a full body workout. She stayed under the blanket, not wanting to face the real world just yet. It didn't make sense. That blasted dragon didn't make a lick of sense. The fact that sh...
"Alright sweethearts, one bedtime story, then it's bedibyes time," their grandmother insisted, as she tucked the youngest girls in immediately after supper, "and be quiet, darlings, your Mummy's sleeping." "Oh, Naaaan, I'm missing-" Grandmother tut-tutted, the eldest Arthur was always the loudest to protest, but usually the first to fold, "Now, Art, I don...
Melanie stirred. She slowly opened her eyes. She was stretched full length on her back on the soft grass of the meadow next to her cottage. She slowly sat part way up, supported on her elbows. Her dress and other clothing lay strewn around her. She sat up, fully covering her naked breasts with both hands. She looked up at a full moon. Then slowly, she began...