"What did you tell them about Theo?" Brandon Burton asked the head of the archaeological dig, Colin Doukas, as they stood on the excavation's edge on the plateau near Gortyn, Crete, and looked down at the housing encampment below. Three local police officers had descended from where they stood and were now talking to the head of the local Greek crew, Stephan...
Hi all! Here is the next chapter of part 3! New to HFHM? I write these posts as chapters, so you should start at Chapter 1 if you want to know what is going on. Returning? Great to see you again! I love the community of readers here at Lit for being so supportive and I plan to keep putting HFHM here as long as you keep encouraging me to write it! Don't fo...
3. THE COURT OF FILTH Greg felt like he'd been wandering around in the dark for hours. It had probably only been a few minutes. The corridor had turned out to be a single long passageway in some kind of labyrinth. Greg vaguely remembered some kind of trick about solving mazes that he'd learned from his little brother, but he couldn't seem to remember it...
Veda and Maddy cried hard, hugging Bianca as close as they could with out hurting the baby. "We were so worried!" Maddy squeaked her thick mascara and jet black eye liner running down her face. "We didn't know what happened!" Veda cried. "You just disappeared!" Maddy wailed "Blake said you ran away-" Veda choked up. "But we knew you wouldn't run away w...
The infinite sands of the Infernal Desert spread from horizon to horizon, undulating so slightly that only a trained eye could sense their formations. Above, six suns burned with deathly radiance, filling a yellowed sky with heat that could slough flesh from bone. Below, a thin trail snaked its way across the sands. Heavy dire camels, their tufts of heavy f...
Gods, there was nothing soft about this world, least of all the ground. When John came to, his whole body ached. His jaw felt off center and there was blood matted to the side of his head. What'd happened? He closed his eyes- they weren't doing him much good at the moment anyways -and tried to remember. He'd opened the puzzle box. Why? That was between him a...
Consciousness makes an unwelcome return as you awaken, freezing and numb on cold stone. You are completely disoriented: the room is pitch black and your head throbs from whatever knocked you out. After a few minutes of fumbling around you are able to locate a torch and striker, the flare of light blinding you as it ignites. A few moments of painful blinking...
***Note*** Asterion is a Minotaur, which is like a Centaur, but instead of his lower body being that of a horse, his lower body is instead that of a bull. Prologue During the late Bronze Age, well over a millennium before the birth of Christ, the Minoan king on Crete held the Athenian king to ransom. Every nine years the Athenian king sent as tribute sev...
Once upon a time in a land far away there lived a princess in a castle on a hill overlooking a quiet little village. In the forest beyond the village lived a great and terrible dragon. The villagers lived in fear of this dragon. They all knew the dragon would not be satisfied until he had fed on virgin flesh... Madelyn walked the path with determination. Ou...
Christ, you think, can't believe he made an easy job a shit one. You were walking home after work, finding yourself incredibly irritated by your boss, who seemed to have a knack for forcing you to do more work than you would usually have to. Today, for example, he ordered you to help him fix the water dispenser in the office, yet you found yourself being the...