Adam Wolfe looked back at the mountain range, a two-day hike from where he stood now. Still no sign of modern man. Maybe 100,000 years was too far back in time. The Foundation only been given one shot at it. The Earth was not likely to pass that close to a wormhole again for several millennia. No, actually make that more than a hundred millennia in the futu...
The Steeple Hampton Tennis Club was ageing gracefully into extinction. Membership was declining year by year as dementia and decay claimed more victims. As a consequence of declining income, the courts and clubhouse were also decaying. Now it had become impossible to find Committee members from the declining ranks of septuagenarians and octogenarians who had...
If only people would stop judging others before getting to know them, the world would be a better place. Who am I kidding? That's never going to happen. Just got to keep on trucking, I guess. Those were the words running through my head as I ripped the throat off a trucker whose only mistake was seeing me in my true form. The poor shmuck died within moments....
All rights reserved to author © 4-09-03 It was autumn, the year we moved. Autumn was always a good time for change. The night was starless, with only a small crescent moon for light. The large wolf watched from high atop his hill. He had sent the call out in early spring. It was time to leave this place of man. Man the destroyer of all things not understoo...
Prologue Valentina slept. No, that's not exactly true, for to all human understanding Valentina was well and truly dead. But that's not exactly true either, for while Valentina's body, lying there in her big bed, was dead, her mind remained active. The ancient people in her land of Mexico considered her their Goddess. They had worshiped her for centuries a...
Ch. I: Phantom Finds a Soulmate Ann stepped out the back door of her house to retrieve something from her car in the covered garage. She shivered a bit but it was not from the crisp December night air but rather from an uneasy feeling she had been experiencing lately. Ann had lived most of her life in the country and never had this feeling before. It was t...
XCII War Alex 2036 Alex was now possessed of an opinion he once believed that he'd never hold. And that somewhat dispiriting opinion was that those women whose company he most enjoyed were those he could never rate as his social equals. A woman like the new Chief Executive Officer, for example, was a real balls-breaker whose greatest talent was to keep Alex...
If I had a dollar for every time some fool who fancies himself or herself a Hunter came after me, I'd be a rich woman. Ever since the world found out about my kind's experience in 2015, it's been pure hell. Vampires have lived among humanity for thousands upon thousands of years, existing in secret, stalking the shadows. We only killed when we had to, and we...
Kyle was having a very sexy dream, one more exciting and vivid than he had ever imagined. Brianna was romping naked and dancing with him in passion and delight. The flashing curves of her breasts and legs, her joyful laugh and bright smiling eyes filled the dream. Kyle gasped as Brianna dominated him for coupling, gasped again as she rolled to let him mount...
What had begun as a tense day at work gradually began to resolve itself once I got home, took a long hot shower, and popped a ready made meal in the micro. The headlines on the tube bespoke of rising prices and falling international security with only an occasional footnote of positivism. Not wanting to sink into depression, I tuned into a local sports chann...