You sit on your balcony, listening to the rhythm of the drums as people dance in the streets. The thump of the music is hypnotic, forcing you to sway, even when you aren't in the thick of it yourself. All your life you've dreamed of Carnivale and you have finally make the pilgrimage to enjoy the warm weather and bawdy sights. You've only been in your hotel a...
PROLOGUE I stood in the living room of my new apartment, lost in the wonder of it all. Three months ago I was graduating high school, and now I was moving in with my friend Jesse to start college in New York. It was rather fast for my liking, but my parents were, shall I say, eager. After homeschooling me my whole life, I couldn't say I blamed them for want...
THREE SISTERS Chapter 4 Moruith and Inisian asked us to stay. It would feel safer with us there, they said. They didn't put it into words, but I'm sure they also felt indebted for our assistance in ridding them of the threat of Rymvi SmallFoot - and helping Inisian to avenge his brother. But I believe that Moruith was also moved by her ailing husband's rea...
Snowed in again, two days before Christmas, all flights in and out of the airport cancelled, no chance of her getting home for the holidays. So sure that she would be long gone, that she didn't put up a tree, no presents, not even a can of Spam to open for dinner. She curls up in the chair, power out, she can't even get on the internet to amuse herself. Jus...
It was a dismal April day and word was spreading through the camp that Bob Lee was going to throw in the towel. I don't know how the other boys felt about it, but I hadn't been fighting those damned Federals for four years just to walk in front of them and lay my Enfield down. Bob Lee could give it up at Appomattox, but I wasn't by God going to do it. They c...
Friday Yawning as I realize my phone is ringing, reaching to glance at the caller ID and smiling as I read the incoming number. My voice deep with sleep, and, as always when you come to mind, desire. A lazy hello greets me as I flick open the phone, already eliciting a soft moan from me. "Good morning babe," is the most I can muster at this hour. The time...
{Author’s Explanatory Note: In this universe, Goethe are angel-like humanoids, with two forms, the winged ava form and the wingless doma form, distinguished in the latter from the Naldas, or humans, by the presence of down-feathers instead of pubic hair, and “down-patches” behind their shoulders, where their wings sprout; there are also two sub-races, one wi...
Chapter 13: Reclamation and Loss I had been sure the shaking of the walls in Hades was surely Lucifer coming to rescue me. Even as Hermes, Eros and I scrambled into clothing once more, I could hear the sounds of shouting and battle. I don't know how I knew what the latter sounded like as I had never so much as been in a bar brawl, but it was unmistakable....
Vivian spent two days pondering her faith in the rundown house looking at herself in the mirror. Pink skin and the long tail showed no signs of disappearing and nothing she came up with helped her in any way. The priestess's connection to her old God was completely severed. In the morning of the third day, strange hunger forced the pink demon Vivian to look...
There's a brisk rain falling, I can hear it hitting the window pane, tappity tap. The accompanying wind is stripping the leaves from the trees creating a colorful carpet on the ground. A lazy stretch as I realize my bladder is done lying in bed, warm feet hit the cold floor and with a full body shiver I hurry to the bathroom. Just before the flush of the toi...