'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'tis the gift to come down where you ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, It will be in the valley of love and delight. --Shaker Hymn Christmas packages had been piling up under the tree at Xavier's School for the Gifted, because most of its students lived there year-round. Gu...
Chapter 7 - Shopping, Dove Falconhand, Cheap Wine, and Han Solo Before Natalie went downstairs to meet Lou to go on their shopping excursion she decided to change clothes and when she took off her mage robe she noticed it clean as if new. She expected to find dirt and even blood on it from holding Rain the previous night but there was not a spec of dirt or...
At first he visited the coffee shop only on Saturday afternoons around 4:30, the same time as their first meeting. Then he found himself visiting on Friday's and Saturday's and now it's Wednesday afternoon and he's at the same table as before. Since that first meeting he's been thinking of her and the way that she made him feel. An internet search on 'Dolora...
Christmas wasn't Christmas until you'd stuffed a Santa face down in a wheelie bin and set his ass on fire. That's what Rick Burton said. Rick couldn't be out with them tonight; he was currently serving a three year stretch for beating up a moaning old bastard. Tim Selick had some sympathy. His own life had felt like a prison for the past six months. Not to...
The Elven army stood on a green hill and waited for its commander to arrive. Private Shiva was in her beginning twenties. It was her first year after graduating at the Love University for Elves and her legs were feeling shaky. She turned her head and saw ten thousands of young, blond, green uniformed girls stretching out in every direction. "Newbie?", aske...
If you are looking for a story filled with details of sexual intimacy, please look elsewhere. While there is sexual tension, there is no overt sexual activity in this little tale. Please feel free to leave your comments and don't forget to vote. Thanks. ************************** "What the fuck! Asshole!" Her yelling drowned out the moans from the man wh...
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Disclaimers apply. Nyx/Dara Gibson and Tigress/Nikku Sita Cheng © Kara Senecal, 2005. It was the same pattern of images that continued to assail Nightcrawler for months; the moment where he had rushed forward, with Magik--his beloved Amanda--at his side, and Nyx, beautifully ferocious, swooping overhead, snarling at the renegade demons...
The Dawn ---- Talos and Casiama returned to the mundane world after a long night of long-awaited passion. The elf had taught him much of magic last night; for one, the mere fact that an expert conjurer could teleport people at all. While Casiama was only capable of teleporting point-to-point between her other-dimensional plane and back to the same point...
-- Chapter 1 – A chance rescue -- The pirate ship fired its last broadside into the guts of the crippled imperial sloop. Grapples were thrown and a long-rehearsed boarding action swung into play, giving the famed pirate Francis Quickblade a sense of enormous pride as he watched his crew bind their ship to what was rumoured to be a vessel with some rich pick...
Sybari eagerly took in the sights of the bustling city as she walked the streets with Mayhem. Beside her, the tall voracis unbuttoned her cloak and pushed the hood from her head, having become too hot in the afternoon sun. "What happens if someone recognises you?" Sybari asked. "I've never been included in many of the public ceremonies, so it's usually onl...