Bill turned his junky-looking, mid-50's vintage car onto the street that led to the nearby Cal State University, and ran a nervous hand through his dark brown hair. He was hoping he hadn't kept Candy waiting long, his 20-year-old car had refused to start that Saturday morning until he had thumped on the starter motor a few times with a piece of iron pipe. He...
I felt like I was walking on a cloud weeks after Beltane. Somehow, I just felt suffused with a joy and zeal for life that I just didn't ever truly feel... and it was noticeable. My daughter seemed more inclined to ask after me than she ever had before... it had not ever occurred to me how often the family saw me as emotionally closed off, trying to understa...
The first sign was a sudden craving for the sour bite of crisp, unripe mangoes with salty, garlicky, fermented shrimp paste—manggang hilaw at bagoong—in the wee hours. The next was the sudden simmer of bile in Jinx's gut, a rising gorge akin to a volcano releasing magma to the surface through a vent with pyroclastic intensity. It was all the diwata could d...
"I saw him, in my dream. I know what his next move is." "You saw who love?" "Crandle, I saw him with 3 wolves at an expensive hotel. He is sending wolves here. He figured out that we were here and he is sending them to the compound. I tried to follow him, but I was brought back here." "You were able to see this taking place in present, past or future?" "...
As I checked the new e-mail, there was one with a strange address I had never seen before. I opened it up and started to read it. To: "Tran Mei-Ling" From: "WonderNerd Cafe" Subject: We took your advice Date sent: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear Mei-Ling: I am writing from an internet café in Hawaii so that should explain the strange e-mail address. I w...
Chloe Ashley Anderson was a farm girl from northern Minnesota who was a virgin when she enrolled in the prestigious aerospace engineering program at the University of Minnesota on a full academic scholarship. Because of the accelerated college level courses she had completed while still in high school she was chosen by her academic advisor to tutor the schoo...
What a year it had been. We'd first moved from the Caribbean to the UK, but as the weather had turned cooler, we'd found a place in Spain, in foothills of the Andalusian mountains. We'd rented a farmhouse, a finca, where we'd grown our own vegetables, as well as some marijuana that gave us a comfortable income. We had recently advertised as hosts on a volun...
A huge thank you to my editor Tex Beethoven for another amazing job and collaboration, thank you Tex you rock!! Book 1 Chapter 9 While everyone headed back to the compound there was excitement in the air about the party. About 50 yards into the mile-long Green that began directly across the road from the Manor House, had been assembled a medium sized...
Oh damn, I'd rather be at the club than here but my boyfriend, Jeremy, insisted. I love him so much. I'd do almost anything to make him happy. We're seniors in high school and have been going out for the last six months. I had a crush on him for over a year and he finally noticed me once I turned eighteen and my body became more womanly. He's a jock, a star...
Author's Note: While I was getting this chapter ready for submission, I realized that Nick had invaded my computer and turned Dani and Bull's world upside down. When I found the part where he was using his evil to make things worse, I consulted both Dani and Bull and they realized that she would have never allowed such a thing to happen. So I made sure that...