Chapter 17: Desperate Measures "If you haven't figured it out by now Kally, you're bait. I want Jake to at least suffer a little. See what happened to my face?" asked Miranda gesturing to the burns on her face. "His friend did this to me and then he abandoned me! I made him, and he still has his looks intact!" raged Miranda. Gregor who was standing by the...
Clark Kent stood in front of his parents' farm, and looked at the horizon. He looked like any other young farmer in this part of Kansas, of course he was anything but. Clark Kent, adopted son of Jonathan and Martha Kent was not an ordinary youngster. He was the last survivor of the planet Krypton. Krypton was a distant world once inhabited by human-like enti...
Power Sabotaged A New Life For Sheila Part 1 : The Power Cut Sheila was watching her favourite soap opera, the one in which two characters who were made for each other tried in turn to find each other's love, but each time for some reason one or both of them pretended they had no feelings for each other, so they danced around each other many times, mutual...
Karen Starr could hear the roaring flames before the sirens of the fire trucks even started up. The fire was halfway across town easily five miles away but she could hear it and when she turned her attention towards it she could see through the concrete jungle between herself and it. After watching it for a moment she was content that the fire department wou...
Outside the cell. Robert Drake stood, sadly staring through the one-way glass into the room below. His face was stony, his expression cold. His wife, Kitty, leaned against him. She kept her face buried in his side, unable to face the view her husband endured. From the cool blue eyes she loved so much, amid the laugh lines and the beginning of crows' feet su...
Zarin sat on the edge of a building overlooking the city. It wasn't much of a city. Deep in the forgotten counties of West Texas, surrounded by desert-like plains on all sides, and prone to tumble weeds, he felt like it was something out of an old west movie. A dead end town, where people went when they didn't have anywhere else to go. Or at least it felt th...
*Author's Note: Hello again, readers! Although this is the end of Circle7, it may just be the end of the beginning! I have to remind everyone, once again, that those easily offended by possibly heretical/blasphemous/strange should turn back now, and not be whiners in the comments/ratings. Don't be that person. You're better than that. That said, if you DO en...
In dream Eiko: Argh…….. What is this? My head hurts….. :looks at self: Huh? I’m naked! :covers self: :man coming out of nowhere: ????: Hi it’s me Eiko. Eiko: Hey! Your that perverted man! Perverted man: Please call me Fei…. Eiko: Ok then Fei. What do you want? Fei: I want to apologize to you for what I have done. I’m sorry to have made you suffer...
USS Oberon, Deck 3 Fore -- Senior Officers' Quarters: The Klingon Bird of Prey swooped down, screaming and going KAPOW! KAPOW! at the manta-shaped starship hiding behind the stuffed penguin. The penguin cried out in agony as the Klingon disruptor beams struck it, but it still protected the Catamaran, long enough for the vessel to come about from behind the...
Isolde meets Baron Samedi I woke up in a Graveyard. I was not in King Henry's Court at ALL! Somehow I had been summoned and many people had their bodies up and dancing...Chanting in a strange language I couldn't understand...beautiful bursts of song and laughter. An exotic and beautiful black woman was leading them. She smiled at me, and softly came to kiss...