As he was dragged out of the room, Erus watched Thare drop her head and sigh. But that was all he saw of her, as Talarn threw him across the floor into the wall with a loud thud. The student got to his feet, and the innkeeper was less than a hair's width away from him in seconds. "Now you listen here, boy," Talarn snarled annoyedly. "That elf is not the ki...
"Hi sweetie!" Margie lifted onto her toes for a peck on the lips before breezing past me with an armload of groceries. I scratched my head and peered up and down the street before closing the door and trailing barefoot after her. "Thought I'd make you something healthy tonight." The brown paper bag was half empty and water was drumming the stainless steel...
Doing business with a black-market chemist was ill-advised, but a license alchemist wasn't going to sell Dan what he needed. You weren't supposed to mix potions - the side effects were unpredictable and potentially volatile. Tomas Rughen had no such compunctions. He'd lined the requested products up in a neat row, written a list of precise instructions in...
I felt the scorching heat of the Texas sun on my back as I looked under the hood of my 2004 Mustang convertible. I had no idea what I was looking at. After trying a few tricks I had picked up from my dad, I slammed the hood down and sat on it, my thumb in the air. All I could do was sit in the blistering heat and wait. After about two minutes, a TrailBlazer...
This is a short story, but I think a pretty good one. Comments are always welcome and encouraged. If you like it let me know. If you didn't, let me know as well but please tell me why. I can't improve if I don't get criticism. I welcome criticism on content or mechanics. I dedicate this and all my stories to my sweetheart and the love of my life; she comple...
Calista’s hand trembled as the match dragged against the box causing it to burst into flame. The two pink candles, one representing him, one her, were set on the table facing the southern windows overlooking the street below. Taking a deep breath, she lit them. Was she making the right choice? Tonight had to be the night even if only to say goodbye. She k...
Many years had passed since the last time I saw Sarah. After that summer at camp together, I missed her for a very long time. But we were young, and she was bad at keeping in touch. We wrote to each other intermittently, but soon all contact was gone. A couple years later, my family moved overseas, and my life moved in a very different direction. I didn't da...
"That's...that's just..." Laila stammered before almost jumping on Matt to embrace him. "Thank you!" Despite her happy demeanor and the joy that he could feel from her, Matt could feel something else as well. "What did I do wrong?" Laila broke the embrace and sighed, looking longingly as her wings. "I...appreciate you giving me my grace back. It's amazing....
My breath caught in my throat the moment I saw him coming toward me in the grocery store. It had been years since I had last seen him but he still had the same power over me. My heart began to race and I felt the same familiar stirrings that I always felt whenever he was near. Nick and I dated on and off over the course of several years but mostly our relati...
I woke with a jolt. It was pitch black in my room. I was frozen. Something made a noise by the opposite wall. I closed my eyes tight. 'Something's in my room' I thought. Whatever it was moved closer to my bed. It tried to move quietly but the stuff on the floor made that impossible. I felt it beside my bed. It climbed in behind me. I kept my eyes closed bu...