Grumpy had just completed a gruelling trip in the roadtrain, going from Kalgoorlie, to Lienster, to Norseman, to Port Augusta, and then up through the Stuart Highway, to Alice Springs, where he decided he needed to stop and relax a bit. He owned his own roadtrain, so where and when he pulled up, was entirely up to him. He booked a room at the Gap hotel, sho...
Chapter 4 - Bann Bann was exhausted and sore, but mostly he was disappointed. It had been a difficult day, despite a promising start. The first competition he had participated in was archery and he had managed to achieve a fair result, but the centaurs with their powerful longbows were in high demand and his mediocre result at the butts had resulted in non...
Sam was 12 when he stood under the sky full of shooting stars. He could feel it. He was there, in the sky above him. His Wolf Spirit. It was hurtling through the Earth's energy streams as fast as those stars. Today was the day his spirit, whichever it was, would choose him. He would bond with his wolf spirit and earn his shift. He felt it closing in, and ran...
Lucas sat on the bridge of the Enterprise and frowned at the orbital chart. He was reminded, obscurely, of one of the many shitty 20th and 21st century spec-fic shows that Helen had crammed down his eyes during the long, slow, stately voyage to Arcadia. It felt like a thousand years before, like a lifetime ago. It was a time where magic was relegated to vids...
Amaria (a-MAR-ee-uh) and Ixchol (ICKS-shol) AMARIA Amaria lowered the hood of her cloak to feel the morning mist kiss her cheeks. Inhaling slowly, she tried to quell her rising sense of dread, focusing instead on the crisp smell of the damp grass, the clean wind, and the moisture slowly beading on her skin. She savored the sensations, lingering a moment...
This is a substory about Melinda, a human girl in servitude to monstergirl Empire in this metaplot story: Theo: The Blood Angel of Lescatie. Her story starts at page 5. This is her own story, please enjoy and give feedback. ** Inquisition Interview Serial No: E6-Y-17T Post-screeningTags: Bondage and mildly sexually suggestive content. Subject: Female, h...
Pomp Square was home to many a fine dining establishment, and Aerlin had been to them all, most of them several times over. There was Forest's Finest, where one might enjoy refined elven cuisine, which was almost exclusively vegetarian. There was Steel Skewer, a dwarven restaurant replete with meats smoked and barbecued in every way imaginable. But the fines...
********* CHAPTER 5 ********* ANOTHER DAY OF travelling only made Anári more grateful for her own fate. As much as she missed Marwena, she was much better off with the trolls. Grateful her friend had talked her out of it, she recalled her plan to set out on her own to find a better place somewhere down the road. It was quickly becoming obvious that such a...
The rest of our winter vacation that was not spent in bed was devoted to house hunting. We thought at first about buying one huge house big enough for the five of us and our families, but practicality reined us in finally. We decided instead for two large houses that were right next of each other on this lovely bay near Mano, and close to the nearby shopping...
My husband Richard had left me to close up our summer cottage for the year. He had left to fly to medical conference in Austin Texas. Richard was a distinguisher specialist in internal medicine with a very large practice in the city. My husband was twenty-seven years my senior but in the physical condition of a man of thirty. The cottage was located on the...