It was an ordinary morning in the X-mansion. Storm yawned as she headed down to the dining room for breakfast. On the way, she passed Bobby Drake. "Hello," she said. "Gotta go! She likes lime popsicles and we don't have any!" Storm frowned. Then that meant… Yes. All the men were in the kitchen, fighting. "She likes eggs!" "Not your way!" "She told ME she...
As I leapt back I kept my left hand in front of me, a slightly glowing aura around it as I activated the magic of the ring on my middle finger and, almost without thought, my sword-spell brought my flaming no-dachi to my right hand. As I came down out of the hallway, Akiro was to my right, His no-dachi held in a two handed grip and Keio was to my left with h...
I plopped down into my chair after replacing my long cold coffee with a fresh cup. I checked the progress of my search engine and didn't like what I was seeing. Six hours of searching through database after database had turned up nothing so far. I had put in calls to several of my contacts as well, asking them to be listening for any word about the Eclipses...
Looking back now over several decades I wonder at how naïve, how innocent, most of us young people were, especially when it came to sex. For those who have been born since those days in the nineteen forties and fifties, you probably won't believe me when I say that at nineteen years of age I had never had a sexual intercourse. Nevertheless it is true, and it...
This is more of a stroke story than anything terribly serious. In spite of the first person narrative, it is a work of fiction; it is not biographical. There are always snippets of truth and fact in any work of fiction. I've tried to give my characters thoughts and words which fit the time, the place and their situations. In my last summer of graduate schoo...
CHAPTER 1 Elwood Chaplin's maternal grandmother always said Elwood was rather near the end of the line when brains were handed out. That told one something about grandma but perhaps gave an impression of Elwood not altogether accurate. Woody, as Elwood became dubbed, had ended school at eighteen with no one including Woody believing he ought to go on to co...
Chapter 22 - Portents Interlude: 25th Anniversary Cindy: Friday night was quiet. The media was camped out, but many of the lightweights had been run off. Friday 11:39 PM ET-Davidspet: Oh my God. Remember that scene from Tuesday? They posted pictures at the club, along with some new rules. The rules are what you expect: more safety precautions and lia...
Disclaimer: The details of warp operation were totally made up. Hell, ALL of it was made up. Any of you Trekkies out there that find inconsistencies with any of this shit have way too much free time on your hands. Don't email me saying "According to the Star Trek Technical Manual by Michael Okuda it doesn't work that way...." (I have BOTH of the tech manuals...
Disclaimer: The details of warp operation were totally made up. Hell, ALL of it was made up. Any of you Trekkies out there that find inconsistencies with any of this shit have way too much free time on your hands. Don’t email me saying “According to the Star Trek Technical Manual by Michael Okuda it doesn’t work that way….” (I have BOTH of the tech manuals....
*** THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS SERIES. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT. *** CHAPTER 7- FATE??? "And this is Noel Angel and my mother Kate." Amber said introducing Noel to Leon. Noel noticed this guy staring at her. She felt like she had seen him somewhere before no, no make that been with him before but if she would have...