Chapter Eighty-Three: Battle-worn I crept back across the bridge, glad that I wouldn't have to do it again until after we'd found Branka. Seriously with the walking! I sighed, and then tiptoed up past the Emissary, leaning against the wall behind it, daggers ready. I didn't have to wait long until I heard the sound of booted feet marching. I strained to s...
Author's Note: Second edit pass complete! Check out my bio for details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~Beatrice~~ The ball didn't last long after that. Antoinette left, and she took Jack with her. The poor kid looked pretty scared as the most powerful Kindred in the city dragged him off with a firm grip hand-in-hand. He'd looked Julias's way, wi...
Prolog I met a borracho in a bar and we fell into a deep discussion of cosmic matters. He claimed to have exhausted his funds on a one-way bus ticket into town. For many years, he’d been promising himself a trip to our little city, apparently. Why anyone would want to come here-anyone not an engineer or bureaucrat affiliated with the aerospace contractors t...
"Punch it!" Nayana shouted at the helmeted driver as she tightened her fingers around the handgrip of the machinegun. The scraped-up jeep bounced across the rubble when the driver gunned the engine. Nayana turned her attention to the inhuman horde in their wake. Pulling the trigger, she let bursts of hot lead dance across the half decayed undead, but no mat...
The arrows left their bow strings, the whistling only lasting a second or two, before more screams echoed off the hills around them. Two more men stood without their manhood, while the third was pierced in his abdomen. The two men stood back and watched, as Glendon's last archer, Callum McInnis took aim once more. All the men watched in suspense, Callum's sh...
Not long after midnight, Gyllen stirred awake from a deep slumber upon a stiff mattress stuffed with straw only to be met with perfect darkness and the pressure of a colossal titan keeping a tight hold around his fragile neck from behind, preventing the teenage prince from picking himself up by his own will. For one fleeting second of ignorant bliss, Gyllen...
I thank Randi for the edit, the invitation to this party, the encouragement to write and especially for her friendship. I thank you readers for taking the time to read my story. My wife, Sue, and I had recently moved to Millville, but I was already rethinking our decision. The house we bought was located in a nice neighborhood and the weather in Florida wa...
Author's Note: Second edit pass complete! Check out my bio for details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~Antoinette~~ Her Black Hall had more faces than she'd expected. Wonderful, that meant tensions had lessened between covenants and individuals alike. There would be lasting peace in her city, even if it meant she had to drag the idiots into the...
In this story the career of one of Hollywood's greatest sexy symbols has a fictional encounter with that staple of vintage Hollywood auditioning techniques, the casting couch.... * Fred Stern was not a happy man. Sitting at his solid oak desk all he could see strewn in front of him were reports, memos, budget forecasts and contracts for current productions...
Elevator Pitch: Opening the door to a cute looking girl, Mike discovers that she's not exactly what she appears. Lewdness and maybe good feelings ensues. *** Mike didn't even need to open his door to know that something was wrong. First of all, someone was knocking just before Midnight. Whoever it was on the other side was on his property, a lonely little...