My name is Cassandra DaCosta, and I set down these words in the event of my death. If you are reading these words, then it must mean that I have died, as so many of us must do, and that means that Count Dorin needs someone to replace me as His servant. It has been many years since He first entered my life, since He first demanded His offering of blood from m...
The young man has a casual grace to his motion as he walks through the food court, an idle affability that tells Mei he doesn't realize just how hot he looks. He probably just threw on whatever clothes he could find, headed out to the mall, and didn't give a second glance to his appearance...but the effect of relaxed, easy charm is one other guys would spend...
Shelley almost never won anything. She just wasn't the lucky sort. When she called the radio station, she was always either their ninth or eleventh caller. Sixteen years of always playing her lottery numbers had yielded a net loss of six hundred dollars. She couldn't even win at church Bingo night. So it was with a sensation of mild shock that she found hers...
I alone. I alone long time now, many times of light and dark and light and dark again. I never know how long I alone; time sleeps in soft place in I's mind, same as all other thoughts. Sometimes I happy for soft place; easier when I in soft place than when I know I alone. But I always afraid when I go to soft place, afraid I never come back. But then I come...
"So, uh...you wanna borrow her? It's OK, dude, she totally won't mind." I just stood there staring. It wasn't that I hadn't gotten used to Troy being a total pig, pretty much ever since puberty; I mean, this was a guy who outright said that he preferred porn to girlfriends because he could switch porn off when he was done. But offering to share his Girl wit...
"SHIT!" The tone of panic in George's voice sent Luke scurrying out of the study before his brain even had time to wonder what had caused the exclamation. He was halfway down the hall by the time he started to worry; had George seen something out the window? The cops showing up, maybe, or the woman who owned the house coming back earlier than expected? Had t...
"Shut UP!" Marcy realized she was making a mistake as soon as she said it, but a whole semester's worth of pent-up frustration and irritation just bubbled out of her mouth and she couldn't stop it anymore. "God, I am so sick of you telling me how fucking great you are! 'Oh, I'm so hot.' 'Oh, I totally had that guy eating out of my hand.' 'Oh, don't you love...
"It's nothing personal. I'm sure you're very skilled. I just can't be hypnotized." Looking up at Lady Whisper from her position at Master's feet, Sydney found it hard to tell whether she took Master's comments personally or not. Lady Whisper had that same enigmatic smile she'd worn the entire party, the one that had drawn them into finding a secluded spot t...
"And can you take dictation?" Harry asked. He watched the eyes of the young man across the desk as he asked the question. Harry liked to watch people's eyes when he talked. The way a person's eyes widened or narrowed sometimes told more about them than a whole résumé. George's eyes widened. Not quite 'deer in the headlights' quality widening, but Harry knew...
It had been ten years since the last time Mark saw her, but all that fell away in an instant. The random motions of the crowd had, just for a moment, left them in perfect view of each other, and to Mark, that moment felt like ten years of ice water rushing into his veins. Her hair, that perfect platinum blonde so close to white that it seemed to gleam. The i...