Vardala had been in something of quandary since it became clear that the adventurers would be exploring the passages beneath the city. The magical eye that she had found on their last expedition could prove tremendously useful now. It would give her a perfect opportunity to scout ahead, and see exactly what was down there without actually visiting herself. T...
The Gems are part of a new genre of stories. This is my Nanowrimo submission and I hope to be able to submit a chapter a day. Enjoy! Chapter One The sound of the big cat brought a smile to the lips of the bent figure who made slow progress towards the gates of the huge black city. It was a Mecca of cosmopolitan splendor, one the figure was ill pressed to p...
Chapter 08: At the lakefront It was coming up on the end of the school year and much of my time was devoted to important papers and final exams so I did not get many opportunities to satisfy my baser urges. That's not to say I didn't have Kati drop in a couple of times, but it year-end demands were always on my mind. In an effort to build up their activiti...
Having a bad day and not enjoying his stay in the big city at all, with one inconvenience after another ruining his visit, now totally lost and disoriented while trying to go home to Pig's Holler, Kentucky, Billy Bob got on the wrong train. After already having come from Boston to make what he thought was his connection for home, now heading in the wrong dir...
Thanks a lot to techsan who edited the story pretty quickly and turned it into a better one. * Chapter Eleven Two weeks later Chris had paid a few more visits to Anna's house which was in an order now and they were ready to go. Chris had sent some suitcases and things like Angela's crib beforehand because there wasn't enough space in the car. The journe...
Livinia had spent her afternoon auctioning off goods, visiting the hunter trainer, tending to her stabled pets and trading various supplies with merchants. Now though, after an exhausting day running about doing excruciatingly menial tasks, she was curled up on a bench seat by the common room fire of her inn. She had a steaming hot bowl of vegetable soup. Ev...
The city was a lively place. Specks of dirt and foul-smelling mist hung in the air. Money jangled in pockets and glinted in the sunlight as a million silver coins passed between a thousand hands. The dirt streets had been either packed down into clay, or else churned into a slurry by day-old rainwater and wagon wheels. Buildings rose up to ten times the heig...
Hauling the body of her old man, I followed Mimi out toward the bottom of the cliffs behind Helmsley Mansion. We got to the spot where she wanted him buried and I proceeded to dig a hole while Mimi watched and waited. "Big and wide," she had instructed of the grave I was to dig. As I dug deeper into the ground, I couldn't help but wonder if Mimi was up to s...
"Ajei, you've been bitten, you now bear the curse of the Skin Walker, when the next full moon rises, you will become one of them, we should kill you for your own good," those were the last words that my father, Hashkeh Naabah, Chief of the Navajo Nation, said to me, the night I came back from collecting fruit in the woods. I got attacked by what I thought wa...
I am not really sure how it came to this. How have I survived this long? I never even thought I would ever make it to 38, to tell you the truth. But here I am, the "poster girl" devoted wife, successful career girl, "got her shit together" Lisa. If only Randy knew who I really am. If our friends and family really knew who I am. This double life. This charade...