"I do," She sealed her fate. The ceremonial words were as true as life to her, though the reply was forced from her new husband. In that instant, the woman performing the ceremony ceased to be the Queen-Mother, removed her heavily ornamented chain, gently draped it around the new Queen from shoulder to hip and closed the clasp. "Until I want you, you will o...
In the sprawling lands of Aeldor, it was well known that His elusive Majesty was credited with the exposure of the supernatural to the public. Humans had once been the governing species until shifters staged a revolution led by the alpha with nothing to lose. The legends painted him as a ruthless warrior who claimed the entirety of the human nations throug...
Part Two- The Dance August 23- Belarus, Greece While Professor Chase cleaned herself up in the Cairo Airport restroom, I opened the scroll case we had liberated from the Egyptian Arms Dealers. The scroll, thought to be an ancient text documenting the first commands of Osiris to the King of Egypt, was actually written in a tale written in Latin about King D...
Gloria walked the long corridors of the glorious castle. All the spoils of war covered its walls. She smiled at the paintings of Kings past. Gloria was a servant to the royal family of Murtar. Murtar was a powerful and feared country in the middle of the desert. For thousands of years, it had ruled the desert by sword. She beamed in pride of her country and...
Kim rolled over and turned off the alarm clock. She sat up in bed. "Where are you going?" her husband asked. "To work." "It's Bank Holiday Monday. That old miser is keeping the shop open all day then? Leave me some money. I'm off out for the day with my friends." "I don't have any, just enough to get petrol." "That will do, and I know you have housekeep...
Entertainments - the Knights Templar - magical iron - a demon - Great Tom's view - Perpetual Virgins - Sir Harry's gold - unsavoury alleyways I know I dozed, briefly, before waking to find myself as Thornton once more. The sisters were still asleep, tangled together with me on the bed; they would possibly be looking for some explanations, by and by. Someth...
Within the hour Lexter and I were sat on the grimy New York subway. I know any normal person would be worrying about the nest of angry Weres I was about to walk into, but I was more worried about the grim sticking to my white jeans. Trying to stay as still as possible, I studied the reflection of Lexter in the window opposite. The sun had risen so I was look...
I don't know what it was that night that drove me to what I did. Maybe it was the crushing boredom of being a suburban housewife. Maybe it was the two hours I had already spent listening to principal McKinney ramble on about attendance and the importance of the PTA. Maybe it was the never-ending despair of a ten-year marriage that had produced one child and...
Mmmmnnnnh, oh, OH OH HOH!!!!!!!!!! Greetings to you, my dear, good friend! How are you? My reason for writing to you, this fine eve, is to ask if you like food! I don't just mean, food: the stuff we eat every day to sustain our lives. No, Lover, I'm talking about, "FOOD!" Food should be a sensuous and sensual experience, am I right? Something that relea...
As I drifted back toward consciousness, I reached up to push my disheveled hair from my face. But I could not. Opening my tired eyes slightly, I looked at my wrist: it was bound by a strange bracelet of black leather and silver. I looked to the other side, and there on that wrist was the same unusual jewelry. I tried yanking my arms free, but they were held...