Who Killed Cornelius? A cereal murder mystery to jumpstart your day. Author's Note: I hope that if you figure out the killer early in the story, you'll stick around to see how the team solves the mystery. It's not an episode of Criminal Minds, but I hope you'll find it to be a fun trip down nostalgia lane. It's a Halloween Contest 2015 entry. Vote, if you l...
ONE : The Slave of Izan Before the slaver had taken her from Izan and brought her to Xyanwer she had known it as the City of Nightmares. It was the last of the Nine Cities -- or the first, for it was said to have been built so long ago none knew who built it -- and more ships sailed to it than returned from it. Casiel had seen it first by night, when she a...
In the near future humanity has designed many ways to combat a rising population and limited resources. One way is Digital Dominion. Your mind is uploaded into a fully functional computer generated world while your body is destroyed. Once inside you can live any life you choose. Digital Dominion is broken into various worlds including Fantasy, Circus, Small...
Agent James Cane sits at his desk reviewing the evidence collected so far, a simple police investigation has led to exposure on the main terrorism finance network worldwide. Millions may be saved by chopping the head off the snake. It would seem that somehow, the brightest minds had been contracted by her to create some form of mind control in order to subd...
Part 9 of my 'An Avenger's..." Black Widow series. This story takes place between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War. ***** Creeping through the solitary darkness, the Black Widow gradually emerged from the shadows. Slipping through the open courtyard, the redhead vaulted over a high fence before dropping down into a sea of endless shipp...
They called it a luxury townhome, but the honey oak "wood" looked like it was bought off the floor at IKEA. The white linoleum had peeled in places in the kitchen and all three bathrooms. The carpeting was all the same boring beige and the walls painted an omnipresent eggshell color. John couldn't stand the suburbs. But being a stockbroker wasn't working wel...
*If the only option you give your enemy is Death, they will choose your Death* (This story is sex-lite; be warned) *** For Salvador the day had started to fall apart shortly after ten in the morning. He'd spent the better part of fifty years ferretting out Marissa's secret caches of goodies and he was pretty sure he had gotten them all but one. Shortly a...
The bar was busier than June expected, but then, the hotel was busier than usual this weekend too. It looked like there was some sort of artist convention and a wedding reception both being held in the hotel itself. From the entrance coming from the hotel lobby, she scanned the crowded bar. There were several large groups, obviously from the artist conventio...
Author's note: This story takes place shortly before Captain America 2. ***** If Maria Hill had wanted a simple and easy life she wouldn't have joined SHIELD, or worked so hard to reach the position of Deputy Director at a record-breakingly young age, and she certainly wouldn't have been so hands-on when she reached such a position of power. Of course sh...
This is a companion piece to "Locktober Already", which introduced Marsha and Mike and their best friends, Jan and Ryan and "Locktober for Mike", which was Marsha and Mike's story. While this story is written to stand on its own, better context can be achieved by reading "Locktober Already" first and then "Locktober for Mike", or, to get the backstories, aft...