Celebrity Story: Resistance is Futile. "Seven-of Nine" Lands Next Door. (This is a mixture of pure fantasy fiction and much fact mixed in. After making enough money to retire very prematurely, I bought a place on St. Thomas, USVI. It was a small condo overlooking a cliff. My 38 foot sloop was anchored 75 yards off shore in view of my condo. I was able to do...
Kelly wouldn't tell me what costumes she had picked out for us for Halloween this year. She said only it was a special secret, but she did give me a few hints. First, and most importantly, she was determined to win the contest for Best Costume at the Andersons' Halloween party. They're friends of ours who every year pull out all the stops and throw a first...
The Lion's Den is a travelling circus, a carnival with a very adult playlist on an endless tour of a world reeling from a disastrous war that has thrown civilisation back to a new dark age. The Den is currently camped near Austin in what used to be Texas, USA. and Zara, the owner and absolute dictator of the Den, has asked for help from the New Texas Star Ra...
328 years ago: When the first torch touched the kindling at the base of the wooden pole, Mary Sturgess moaned and writhed against the rope binding her in place. She dug her bare feet into the dirt underneath her as if to dig her way out and away. The wood to her left caught quickly and she felt the sudden heat in the warm night air. The first Elder stepped...
Michael LaCombe sat glumly in the office and waited as Tony Clark looked at the computer screen. Finally the tall man swiveled in his chair and looked at Michael. "I am sorry, Mr. LaCombe," he said. "You've already refinanced the house four months ago, for..." Tony Clark looked at the screen again. "Sixty four thousand, nearly the full amount of the appra...
The Daughter of Frigg Book 2 - A Sister's Heart From the Diary of: Megan Easter Gossler As told by: Owen Nomrist Omega - The High Plain Centaur Tribe were farmers inhabiting the area of Levering south of Vantage. Walking there from Echo Basin should have taken 5 hours, but loaded down with 10 gryphon carcasses it took all day to make the trek. The walk...
Chapter 1 It was a dark and stormy night...thunder could be heard echoing in the cold, crisp autumn air and every couple of minutes there was a bright flash of lightning which illuminated the clouds in the night sky. How appropriate for all Hallow's eve, the night of witches and ghosts, tricks or treats. She checked her image in the rear-view mirror, satis...
You are an 18 year old boy surrounded by bullies everywhere you turn. Your high school has apparently elected you the mascot of the losers and wimps and selected you to receive the lion's share of attention from the bully boys while simultaneously being ignored at best by the girls you lust after. At home, your family is cruel and controlling or coddling and...
It was every Autumn of her life that Ivory and the rest of her clan made the same trek south. Every Spring she returned the same way. She reasoned that the journey would seem less arduous as each year came by, but this year the wind was colder, the snow heavier and the ground more treacherous. Ivory wondered whether the migration only seemed worse because it...
Note to readers: So here is the latest chapter. Only a few more to go. Enjoy :D ----------------------------------------------=- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The plane touched down in the early hours of the morning but unlike Oak River where the town would still be asleep, the hustle and bustle of city life called. Joshua had never been to the city and realised ins...