Before my eyes opened, I was able to sense his presence in the room. The weight of his eyes on my skin was more than enough to pull me from the innocence of my dreams. I tried to keep my breathing steady, to continue to feign sleep in order to lengthen this moment that I was beginning to find so dear - the way he simply looked at me. His fingers softly touch...
She rang the doorbell and waited patiently, eyes gazing downwards as she had been instructed. To steady her nerves she tried to erase all thoughts of what was to come and instead concentrated on the patterns of the scuff marks on the concrete doorstep. What was missing, she mused, were doorstep accoutrements; a doormat bearing the word 'Welcome', a bootscrap...
I don't know what made me turn around, some small sound behind me, a soft foot fall, a rock rolling, I wasn't sure, but I knew I had to look and knew also I didn't want to. The clearing was brightly lit with the light of the full moon, casting everything in silvery shades of grays and blacks, bright enough so that I didn't need my light. I always loved walk...
It took Jessica's brain a moment to process what she was seeing. The first thing that she realized was that all of the candles she had just lit were all extinguished. That could be explained away, some freak gust of wind, shoddy craftsmanship, trick candles that Macy had bought, but the other thing that she saw could not. There was something inside the cha...
I ran through an almost swampy deciduous forest area. I say almost because the pools and pockets of shallow water were sand bottomed instead of the kind of muck that results from leaves turning into silt. The sand, a nice, fine Sahara Desert-esque sand, was firm and well settled. Judging by the lighting, I would guess it was afternoon, possibly hinting at th...
----=(In the travelling suite, part 1)=---- Femaron Baglian was watching news broadcasts from the war-zone. Majgen lay unconscious on a couch close to his comfortable chair. Flight personnel had placed her there by Baglian's instruction. A GED-officer had injected her with kask-neutralizing reagents moments before turning her over to the flight personnel...
Surprised by Jake's question, Melissa's eyes opened to look off into the darkness as she considered how to answer. She had nothing planned for the weekend, no reason to even need to go home. But a shiver passed through her as she considered what exactly he had in mind. "I have nothing planned, Master. Might I know why you asked?" She could hear the shaky f...
Emily is afraid of the dark, so she always keeps a light on in her room to keep her fears at bay. She is a 24 year old office receptionist, and generally keeps to herself. It has been ages since she went out with friends to just have fun. Preferring to just stay home and read a good book. It had been a particularly stressful week at work and it was starting...
My eyes fly open fear chasing me to consciousness. I struggle with my buckles pulling free from my nightmares. I try to control my rapid breathing so not to wake the others. My skin is slick with sweat from the warm metal ship. I run my hands over my hair still tightly wrapped up with a hair tie and look around at the other bounty hunters. Then my eyes land...
The tramp knew what he had, they walked slowly through the alley, like prince and princess waiting vows, but he knew where he stood, a lowly tramp, and a lady true, his hands were still at his sides, the adventurous spirit locked within an ice cube of fear and lost lust. They neared the other side, barely acknowledging each other, they stayed silent, like t...