Chapter 15: Windows Present day, several weeks later Animal hurried through the corridor towards his apartment. He was without inspiration and almost grateful that no students or assistants had bothered to show up. Surveying the revel room, he had been surprised at how much progress he had made in the last few weeks. The first two panels were finished, t...
Chapter 10: The rebel Present day Rose sat cross-legged on the floor, a large mortar on her lap, crushing with a pestle the juniper berries Animal had brought home. Mariah stood, one hand lightly on the back of an armchair, doing a stretch Gabriel had taught her. Gabriel had emptied his medicine bag onto the table and was sorting packets of herbs, noting...
The rest of the weekend at Honolulu was going pretty much how I planned it. I was relaxing, taking my mind of the club and stayed away from drugs for two days now. Nicole was the only person I had interacted with since I got here on Friday morning. I decided to go out for dinner. I did the whole Hawaii thing yesterday, the loo out and all that crap. But tod...
Escaping from the clutches of a Parallel security force with her duplicate in tow, Mariah flees to relative safety, trying desperately to get back to her world before everything comes crashing down around her slim shoulders. ... "She took the first test, as she told us she would, and returned from it. The second test she took, she did not survive. Mariah d...
Carey Lain looked over the trays of food set up in the dining room her long multi colored sundress running all the way down her body to her knees. The space was lit up by the sun beaming through the large windows. Carey loved the Ruhame's brunch. It was always held on the first weekend in May and to the tall brunette it signaled the official end to the cold...
When she receives an exclusive email invitation to participate in a fascinating contest, Mariah Stanley feels like things might finally be looking up. At age twenty-five she is still single and unattached, and stuck in a go-nowhere job, when out of nowhere comes this exclusive offer. Personally addressed to her—it didn't seem to be your run of the mill spam....
There he was, just sitting there like a god-given masterpiece with no errors and no flaws. He was all alone with a confused look on his face. He looked like he was murmuring something as he looked down at his phone. He was wearing a gray sweater with writing on it paired with a white collared shirt underneath, along with some dark denim jeans and black and w...
This is Chapter 3 of Janie’s experience during the summer of 2000 in Wisconsin. It had been a rather ordinary day so far: my alarm clock failed to rouse me, the boss was in a bad mood, there were way too many customers needing caffeine ASAP. I work at a high-end café in the city, and I really do like my job. I mean, it pays decent for a Joe-job, and the h...
It was around 7:20am on a warm muggy Thursday in the middle of August, and Carey was heading to the college gym for her morning swim. She was an incoming 18-year-old freshman at a small private liberal arts college in Washington state. Carey grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and she was happy to escape the frantic pace of the city life. She got to campus a c...
The wind was howling on Friday night and wood fire in the family room fireplace was roaring when Ryan heard a vehicle arriving. "Someone's coming, only idiots would drive for pleasure on a night light this." "Or real friends," Skye said, and left the room. "I'll go," Fergie said, burping pre-dinner beer and tucking in his shirt. Glenys heard the noisy gr...