"What's that?" Angelo said, looking me over. "What's what?" I asked, innocently. "That," he grumbled, pointing to my neck. Up until now, I never looked at myself in the mirror. When I got back from making the movie, I just walked to the shower with no more than a few words to Angelo. Now, I looked in the mirror and fear crept up my throat when I saw what...
RedHairedandFriendly © Author's Note: This is a chapter that was written for a chain story under the same title "A Royal Sacrifice." The work that follows is my own and has been written in order to replace a chapter that was removed when one of the writers in the chain had their work taken down from the site. I will be replacing the final missing chapter or...
All characters in the story were created and are trademark to Valve Corporation taken from the video game Dota 2. The story is merely fiction and does not mean to describe any character from the game or its creators in any manner. P.S. this is my first submission and it may be subject to change or edits. Tresdin continued to sharpen her halberd attempti...
Chapter One The evil robot dropped the woman as the Man of Steel pried its mechanical hands apart then knocked it off balance with a mighty blow. The robot recovered, catching Superman in a tight bear hug. The hero quickly broke loose but the large but speedy mechanical man was on him again; this time lifting him from behind by the waist and applying a vic...
Room 14 Ron's breathing began to slow and I could feel his arms tighten around me. He was already asleep and I shifted just a bit to get comfortable. All his naked glory was pressed up against my flesh, I felt the heat radiate from him, warming my hungry body. I couldn't believe what had happened in the past 10 hours. I felt as if my life had been completel...
Bob, my crop-haired boss, was on his last presentation slide in the windowless meeting room. I sneaked a glance at the time on his phone. This was awkward because the phone was angled away from me. He saw what I was doing. "OK Lee, I know what the time is and everyone wants to head off for their weekend, so we can start again on Monday," he said with a manl...
My name is Ted and I have just experienced what I can only call a miracle. Yeah, I know, you probably don't believe in miracles. Well, I don't believe in coincidences but I do believe in providence. It all started a year ago last November. I was alone in my old farm house in the rural hills of our state. I, at that time, was a bachelor with little likelihoo...
Chapter 1 Rachel Clark walked out of her last job with a smile on her face. She was so glad she didn't have to work for a man who didn't care anything about her. That was the fifth job she had in the last few weeks and she needed to find another one and quick. She had a six year old daughter at home that needed a better life. She walked the dark streets o...
"It was getting on toward Christmas," Clancy bowed his head as he gripped the glass of beer in his trembling, work-calloused hands -- a tear dropped with a heavy plop into it as he spoke again. "It snows up where I'm from, you know," he wiped his face and looked up at me with a tremulous smile. I don't remember how I got started talking to him. I guess i...
[The room is dark.] I can hear my own heartbeat. It pulses through my ribcage and I can feel it in my wrists as I hug myself tightly. Somewhere, I can smell urine and blood. She's out there somewhere, sleeping. [She's sleeping.] Never to wake, never to dream… You'd think that he'd have realized when she stopped screaming that she'd died. [But he won't stop.]...