Evelyn's arms and legs were suddenly freed. She sat up and ran to Casius, jumping up into his arms. He looked tired and drained, but was none the less pleased. "Has she/it gone?" "Aye. The banishment ritual was followed to the letter. Even though a daughter of Lilith and therefore a powerful demon, Meridiana was not strong enough to break the power of the p...
"Cyrilla, have you seen a place this beautiful?" Krond stood on the piled rocks that made up the west bank of the Sapphire River, gazing up at the Northern Mountains. From here, high in the valley, the frigid mountains seemed all-encompassing, cold but quiet, safe. They had climbed as high as they could -- to the edges of the forest, where the river was sti...
It all started at the Jaycee Fourth of July Festival in a little town named Van Buren in Clark County in Southern Illinois, it was 1981. I'm Dave Hughes, and three years earlier I had graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign. A bicycle manufacturer in Clark County recruited me to come to work for them, I...
Author's Note: Some three-plus years since the first chapter was published, I offer you a continuation of the Phil-Rei love story, but told from Phil's perspective. Reader be advised that if you have not read Chapter 1 of this tale, it is strongly suggested that you do. Either way, I hope you enjoy the telling. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ My name is Phil and I am a sixty-s...
2009 Seattle, WA "Thomas! You're my lawyer!" Cassy said sternly to the very uncomfortable man across from her. "I need options, not problems!" "Ah... yes... ok..." Stammered the bald man as he adjusted his collar, Cassy had a way of getting him flustered. The petite black haired woman with a streak of red towards the front huffed as she paced his office...
Chapter 1 - Setting the stage. It's strange how things come to light when we think we've hidden and forgotten them. That was just a passing thought as I sat on my own in the bar of a hotel I hadn't been back to in over thirty years. I was having a beer while I waited for my wife to finish getting ready and join me for a meal. As I sat there at the back of...
Written and Edited by PgFalcon Hi! My name is Tania. No, not "Tan-yea", it's pronounced Tawn-yah. If you've got a problem with it take it up with my mother: she chose it. I am an eight hundred pound midnight black dragon from Ohio. I didn't always weight eight hundred pounds: once upon a time I was an ordinary girl, and couldn't have weighed more than 120l...
Thanks to Willie for her assistance w/ the geography and locals. Also, thanks to TaFace for additional editing assistance. * Gabriel suddenly tensed. He had already started moving through the estate when Abigail screamed. Plowing over guards who remained motionless, he raced towards the mansion dreading what he would find. How could he have missed an intru...
Pain and Pleasure Hey how ya doin? Sam here. Samuel Sanders owner, chief cook, bartender extraordinaire and when necessary bottle washer here at the Midnight Bar and Grill. A guy in my position hears all kinds of stories about all kinds of things. Some things are believable others are the no way in hell type. Tonight however I got a friend of mine to stop b...
On Sunday evening Diane and I were on the sofa in the front room. She was lying with her head on my lap and I was reading to her. This was a more recent addition to the books she had gotten from the library, but wasn't available on tape. In fact most of the books in the series weren't on tape and I had promised to read them to her. There was a knock on t...