Author's note: This story is a work in progress and what you are reading is the rough draft of a manuscript that will eventually be a text and graphic novel. Once the first draft is complete there will probably be a general update to the entire story where I publish second drafts. * Chapter 2 Natalie rode Nimrod down the dusty desert road, a feeling of un...
Thanks everybody for hanging in there with me, back from vacation and ready to continue. Thanks to my editor, I appreciate their time and effort. Thanks to you guys that are reading and commenting and voting for my story, I appreciate your time and effort too. EMD Naomi sat in her Father's study as he paced around the room looking pensive and angry. The r...
The void of waking. That place where even when you're there, you're not really there. An anti-presence that never existed in the place you almost created. Spencer was floating somewhere amidst this in the most exceptional comfort he felt in perhaps all of his life. Wrapped in warm heavy blankets instead of shivering on a filthy mattress... how they had a kin...
"You're quite certain?" "Yes." Maxy assured the regent. "It is as the legend foretold. The gate, the obelisk ... " "And the incantation?" "I can perform it from memory, sire. I made sure to memorize it before Killian was poisoned." "Then we are ready. When is the most auspicious date?" "According to the scrolls of Celeus, three days at dusk." "Fine. I...
Notes This is the NINTH installment of Field Trip Follies. Thanks to Literotica author Laurie for lending me her characters Lindsey Foster and her sister Katie. And also thanks to Laurie for all her encouragement and inspiration. This chapter could be read without reading earlier chapters. All you need to know is that Lindsey is a chaperone on a band field...
Raya let out a deep, contended sigh as she layback on the grass-patched hillock in the centre of the clearing. All around her the trees heaved and swayed in the autumn breeze, letting their bounty of dying leaves fall to the ground below where they would fester and rot sweetly next to furrowing squirrels, desperately in search of food to store for the coming...
15. The Day After The walk back to the house bubbled over with hopeful feelings and discussions for the future. When they returned, Maureen and Joanna were waiting with champagne in Mary's finest crystal. The book and letter had been cleared away and the furniture put back in place. A light buffet was set up. "How did you know?" Mary asked Maureen. She had...
'...reporting live from New York, in front of the famed headquarters of the World League, where minutes ago Mega-Girl was seen turning herself into League leader, Dr. Prizm. You may remember Mega-Girl was wanted in suspicion related to the murder of the super-villain known as Deathstalker, over a month ago, prior to her supposed death. If you're just tuning...
The science building at Gateway City University was usually a very busy place, so it felt strange to Travis to walk its halls and find it completely empty. Not that he expected anything else at five o'clock on a Tuesday morning. Rounding a corner and entering one of the many small labs provided for private study, he found Penny already waiting for him as she...
A small cloud of dust trailed behind the carriage as it rolled and bumped its way down the lonely desert road. In the distance, the walls of Neopotamia loomed ever large, even after the frontier town clustered at its base had long disappeared from sight. Outside the small window a desert scene passed by, enormous cacti dotting the landscape, the sun hangin...