Chapter one. In which Susan meets a centaur and begins her quesT Susan is a twenty something woman. Up to now, her life has been spent in a learning environment followed by several years of self-abuse. Her qualifications were either too much or too little for serious employment, although, her efforts to establish a career hadn't really been conducted in ea...
Welcome back! Missing Bandits, My last name isn't Do'Urden, Feeling Crabby, Love in an Elev... wait... What? For those of you reading The Runesmith Chronicles for the first time I recommend going back and starting at Chapter One. Mostly so you have a better understanding of how things like the magic system works and what's going on as I often reference ear...
Chapter 24* "So I have some good news," Alex smiled, it was so bright and big it made Gavin smile. She was actually aglow, Gavin could see that she had good news long before she said anything. It was actually a departure of what she had been for some time now. Now that she was no longer working on the wall. "What's that?" he asked as he sat his fork do...
~~Antoinette~~ She combed her hair over chest, and sighed. She was still dressed in the suit she wore, though she had dismissed the jacket, more comfortable in the white shirt and gray skirt. Sitting with one leg resting upon the other at the knee, she leaned back upon the couch in one of the many lounge rooms of her Elysium tower, and looked up at the ceil...
The Girl Next Door -- Day with Kimmy Authors Note: This is the next chapter to the The Girl Next Door story. While you don't have to read the first story, it would help provide context to this one. I would like to thank everyone that took the time to read the first story and for all the comments. I appreciate the encouraging words and constructive critici...
Enjoy! You have to read for a bit until you get to the part that qualifies it for the contest. It's a quick read, I promise! * The loose thread was tiny and barely noticeable. It came from a valley in the southern part of Egypt. The cotton plant the thread was made from, was on the outside of the field and received less water, then the plants in the middle...
~~Beatrice~~ The two vampires jumped up and spun around, looking around in the dark. That voice. She recognized that voice. What the fuck, why was it here? Both of them pulled out their phones and started shining them around, but the catacomb was empty. "You... you can't be here," she said. "No one's... no one's been sacrificed." Jen stepped in closer to h...
CHAPTER ONE: Before Sunset He decided to run the mask through two more rinse cycles than he ran with the rest of the costume. Washing the head-piece was usually the most important part of laundry day. He spent so much time breathing in his own breath through the thing that he really didn't need a three-day-old body-funk included. He knew this from experienc...
It was the electronic chirp of a cellphone text message that first stirred Peggy Sanford from a state of excessive alcohol and strenuous sexual activity induced sleep to a state of semi-conscious awareness. The first thing she recognized was that she was not the only one lying in the bed. She felt the warm embrace of a delicate arm draped across her chest, a...
Kristasia nearly sighed in relief at being free of the spider's grasp. She knew she had to think and act both well and fast or she and the child would not survive their encounter with this beast. Having been a slave since her early childhood, Kristasia had become exceedingly good at doing both for the sake of her own survival. Her choices of late hadn't been...