Irillith drummed her fingers on her golden armoured arm impatiently while she waited for someone to let her into this ungainly spaceship. Compared to the exquisitely designed warships of her own people, Terran ships looked crudely angular, lacking any kind of grace or beauty. Still, she did have to admit it had a certain predatory brutality to it, but she wo...
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"WHERE IS SHE?" "My lord!" "BRING HER NOW!" "My lord... she-she is not here. We have searched every inch of the Marble Tree, and the witches search the valley now. We cannot find her." There was a vein at the back of Caligula's neck that threatened to burst. This, this was a direct act of defiance. And he would not be defied. He was being disrespected...
Steve was surprised only by how quickly Gwen's detractors had managed to set things in motion. He had expected the 'dance' to begin during the summer recess. He was already feeling quite irritated when he was stopped by a TV reporter as he made his way through the airport. "Can you shed any light on these ethics violation accusations? What exactly is Gwen A...
One spring evening, Clark was sitting by the fireplace with his twin five year old daughters, Sarah and Amy. His wife, Marie, was just coming into the room. She sat next to him and put Amy in her lap. Clark did the same with Sarah. Sarah said "Tell us the story again, Daddy." "Alright. Do you girls know what it means when someone grabs the brass ring?" "Y...
While the vessel was being manoeuvred into her berth, watched by a huge crowd ashore, Matt wondered if his father would casually ask him, "Did you happen to bump into a Martha Bridger?" Matt had been away for two years and 344 days, according to his mother. If he had any misgivings about his parents being less that enthusiastic about seeing their son again...
Chapter 6 A Riding Lesson At least I was right about there being no mice in the loft, and even though everything in it was incredibly dusty and only after she was sure I'd checked it thoroughly she insisted on following me up in to the treasure house of memories; memories triggered by the innumerable assorted objects we found there, many of which had been...
UM-3/Avalon Kray cried out involuntarily as Harley dodged an incoming, incandescent energy stream and slipped in the mud, a by-product of the rain from the storm that had come in fast on the wind rolling down from the Northern Sea. Harley dropped him onto his left side, where the exposed meat of an open wound overwhelmed the synthetic endorphins Kray had in...
A big 'thank you' goes out to my editors and friends, LadyCibelle and Techsan. They always make my stories a much better read. I made quite a few changes after editing. Any errors are mine. There isn't a lot of sex in this story. * As we get older I think we all look back and wonder "What if" I did things differently? Even small things like taking the spou...
It's strange how events can change your life. If anybody had told me how things would have turned out, I wonder if I would have moved the same way. My wife was always a shy woman. Never one to push herself to the front. When you see her now it is hard to believe that, but I swear it's true. It all started with a meeting with an old school friend Dave. We got...