Part One - The Obsidian Realm: Centuries ago... Her heart had been ripped out. Tali looked at the gore covered bed where the remains of her daughter Ralia lay, face set in a grimace, a ruptured hole where the organ had been removed. The man she had been sleeping with at the time crouched in the corner, rocking back and forth and weeping. He was a Lullubi...
When I woke up, the cabin of the plane was dark but the roar of the engines was gone. Lily's white face glowed in the ghostly light of the laptop screen across the aisle from me. I stretched out on the couch, noticing the windows were shut. I pushed one open, a bright beam of light pierced the cabin. "Shut that," she hissed at me. I immediately slammed it...
Immortality is a bitch. Really, it is- take it from someone who knows. My name is Saber Salvone, I'm 24- been that way for who knows how long, short blond hair, cool blue eyes, muscular- not a bit of fat on me, oh, and I'm also 6'9". Yeah, I stood out, and I assume that's why I was taken too. First off, you should know a few things: 1) Located in the cen...
Calleigh Norton has a problem. That is- if you consider it a problem she just found out that she is a fertility goddess as well as that six gorgeous gods are chasing her, each wanting to be her husband for all of ETERNITY. Calleigh Norton was the normal, run-of-the-mill college student. She had just gotten her bachelor's degree in English, and was coming ho...
Author's note: All characters and companies mentioned in this story have no existence outside the imagination of the author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone or anything bearing the same name or names. Events portrayed in this story are pure invention and have not been based on any events that have happen in real life. All the characters involved in...
The existence of my kind has baffled some of the world's greatest thinkers for untold millennia. Are there such things as gods? How many are there? What are they and why do they do what they do? What do they want from mankind? Well, folks, today you're going to get all the answers. Right out of the horse's mouth, so to speak. My name is Pahle (pronounced Par...
"I'm a Demon, taking out fiends is what I do," I said quietly as I sat across from the police detectives, in this cold 'interview' room, somewhere inside the Toronto Police Service headquarters. The two detectives, a burly, fifty-something white guy named Doyle Connors, and a slender, dark-haired Latina named Marissa Lopez, exchanged a smile and shook their...
Passion makes the world go around. Let no one tell you otherwise. Think about it. Men and women spend billions of dollars a year on cosmetics, hair treatment, plastic surgery and toiletries. Everyone wants to look attractive to whoever might be looking. Male and female, black and white, straight and gay, rich and poor. We all do it. It's as essential to us a...
Beth checked her watch for the fortieth time, squinting around her at the moonlit English countryside. Mom and Dad waited apprehensively a few feet away, Mom wringing her hands and Dad pacing just a little. She'd been the one to talk to her brother that morning and it was such a cryptic conversation. ....... "Hey, B. Are you with mom and dad?" "Yeah, at...
Kayorai Knight found herself back at the cat's meow a week after she had had her encounter with her stripper. Gabriel didn't know it but he was going to end up in her bed again tonight. She couldn't stop thinking of him all day. There was something special about him. Something different. Maybe it was that he hadn't called on her in the last few days and she...