The princess sat back from her reading. In her mind, the terrible roar of the dragon sounded in her ears, and she stole quite a few glances at the great teeth of the dragon skeleton at the far end of the hall. She felt a moment of paralyzing fear, as if the beast would rear its head and come chomping for her. Though she chided herself for being so foolish, a...
Xii-Rider Hyl'ena swung her mighty axe as the cruel blade sliced through the last of the Space Orc warriors, their ugly faces contorted in horror as their bodies were cleaved in two. Behind her, bodies were strewn across the wasted planet's surface. Before her stood the impressively huge figure of the Space Orc leader, Thrax-Nob. She raised her axe once mor...
Like the Bon Jovi song says, who is my Superman tonight? Um, that's hard to explain but my Superman is a woman. Let me explain a bit. My name is Stephen LaCroix, and I'm a big and tall young man living in the City of Toronto, Province of Ontario. I was born in the City of Miami, State of Florida, to a Haitian-American father and Puerto Rican mother. I came t...
Standing in front of the mirror, I look at myself. A Black-haired, bronze-skinned and brown-eyed lady stares back at me. The name is Mona Al-Mokhtar, and I'm a lady with a story to tell. I was born in the City of Baalbek in the Republic of Lebanon, and have lived in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, for the past eleven years. I am forty two years old,...
On Site The nightmares had receded. Time had helped to dim some of the memories. As soon as he had used the remote to deactivate the protective system and stepped into the camp, they flooded back full force. He was taken to another time, another world. He almost expected GMG1 Yoshita's voice over his shoulder saying, "Holy shit, Lieutenant." Yoshita was dea...
Raine. I never believed, never expected, that a simple name could conjur up as many feelings as hers did. Many nights I would lie awake wondering if she and her brother were able to form any kind of relationship. Most probably not but that didn't stop me hoping for it for Raine's sake. God she was so beautiful. I have to admit the whole situation had me q...
I was in my office with the windows open and my feet on the desk, watching the secretaries high-heeling it across Berkeley and Boylston. It was short-skirt weather, and I was entertaining myself between cases. It's great not having a job, if you ain't hungry, as someone once said. Problem was I was hungry. I was thinking about heading home when I saw Hawk co...
Edited by Rosmarina (whose advice and assistance are much appreciated) Please do not reproduce this story without permission. == Chapter 9 == It seemed like years since I'd had such a long phone conversation with Master. When we first met we had two or three such conversations every week for the first few months we knew each other. But since I've been wit...
Sleeping was the hardest part. Sasha laid on his back in what could be called a bed -- if one stretched the bed to include a flat, black pallet of black metal, ribbed like a human torso, and held aloft by hands that emerged from the ground, creating a grotesquely organic feeling to what otherwise felt like steel. He tossed from side to side, feeling the hum...
White Island, Antarctica Sam woke up in a dull cell, much different from the room she was first placed in. Gathering her thoughts, she begins making plans to escape. When the door finally opens, the shock is worse than the betrayal. Jennifer Maykov stood in the doorway, a gun in her hand. "Hello good sister," Maykov spats. "So you made a trip just to kill...