Dear Readers, Here is the next installment of the McKenna/Winters pack. Enjoy, KemMyst ********************** Nick returned to the compound with Lorna, Grant, and Rose. He was happy to note the bodies had been removed although they could still smell blood in the air. Darkness was falling. They went inside to the smell of food and Emily sitting at the t...
"You made me get out of bed for breakfast?" Jessie moaned. "Damn skippy. You need protein and carbs and hydration after that bender you tied on last night. I set a paper-wrapped breakfast sandwich and a box of coconut water in front of her. "Eat hearty." She smiled cutely at me and unwrapped the spinach and egg sandwich. "You take such good care of me."...
Author's note: This chapter contains no sexual activity. It will resume in Chapter 17. This chapter does contain some violence. If that bothers you, please resume reading at Chapter 16. As always, thanks for reading, voting, and all your comments, public and private. I appreciate it all. ### September ### I tuned out the sirens, tuned out the radio...
Dear Readers, Here is the start of a new chapter in the McKenna series. Enjoy, KemMyst ********** "I had always assumed I would live a fairly normal life. Work in the lab, marry a guy, have 2.3 kids, a cat or two, and die after I reached a hundred or so. I never expected to be the savior of a group of beings I never believed existed. Or to leave behin...
Western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota had been even more boring than driving through Wisconsin and parts of my home state. The forests gave way to plains, to vast reaches of dusty emptiness, corn stretching off into the sun-baked distance like a never-ending muted green carpet. There was very little in the way of human activity between the - usually sma...
"This food is shit, we should go to Taco Johns for breakfast." McKenna was in her typical bratty mood when we met her in the small hotel cafeteria for a continental breakfast. We didn't have nearly as far to travel today, which meant we were getting a little bit later start to our day. Part of that was because Jessie had wanted to change her hair color - n...
Keannadiid came for me first, as he always did in my dreams. Maybe that's because I'd seen him around school, interacted with him. Maybe that's because we'd been fighting face to face when I shot him. Of all the attackers at the cabin three years ago, his was the only face I remembered, the other men I'd killed were nameless, faceless silhouettes in my min...
August ### The sun was coming up when Jessie came downstairs. I hadn't yet slept. I'd taken the first shift with Sienna, sitting in the 3rd floors small kitchen, tapping mindlessly through shit on my phone and checking in on the restlessly tossing and turning, rising and puking redhead. If she stayed in the bathroom for very long or was silent, I'd peek in...
Dear Readers, I'm having continuing trouble posting to the site. However, here's the last installment of The Final Insult. Enjoy, KemMyst ******* Anne spent her days looking for medicinal plants and early starches to add to the food supply. She read, watched the occasional show, doted on her son and grandson. She smiled and laughed, but there was an un...
Author's note: This chapter contains no sexual activity. If that is what you're looking for, please return next week. As always, thanks for reading, and your votes and comments. ### Sorrow and solitude These are the precious things And the only words That are worth rememberin' - Nothin', Robert Plant & Allison Kraus ### "You're quitting?" My teac...