Chapter Five – City-Wide Power Outage strands our heroes When the coupled arrived home, Cheryl was able to roust Chris enough to get him into the front door. They made it as far as the sofa, with Cheryl helping Chris along, before he fell hard onto the couch and into a cold hard slumber again. "Rats," murmured Cheryl to herself. This confirmed her suspicio...
1. "Dude, no," Teddy shook his head before taking the final swig from his bottle of cider, "I told you I'm staying the fuck away from Mega Con this year!" Mike placed the big plate of nachos down on the coffee table. "Come on man. The games. The panels. Hot cosplay girls. Fucking Matt Smith AND Alex Kingston. I'll even pay for the autograph session" Teddy...
I came home from work coughing, which isn't unusual, because of allergies. Lisa looked at me. "Are you sick?" "Of course not. Just the normal." "I'm going to have to take your temperature. I was able to buy a thermometer today." "Sure." It sounded good to me because I was worried I'd maybe been infected. Masks had only become available a few days earlier...
Bex Thresh, of the Singularity Principalities, knelt low and touched his snout to the obsidian floor of the Pulsar Castle of House Xosh's freehold. His palms spread and despite hardening his scales for the kick, the impact of the Bryaugh bruiser that stood to the left of him still felt like being hammered by a gravity-drill. Bex rolled and tumbled, then came...
"You're everything I hoped for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful, to me." (B. Preston -- B. Fisher) sung by Joe Cocker. Sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out. I thought that I had submitted this chapter. Must be my advanced age. I'm loosing it...Lost it? * That evening Maggie and I were getting ready to go to Jess' party, Maggie w...
I had several requests for more of this story, which was always my intent. You know writers though. Ideas spawn ideas, and suddenly, you've got fifteen stories in various stages of incubation. Okay, more like twenty, but who's counting. I apologize for making you wait. Thanks for reading, and please cast your votes when you're done. Send me some feedba...
"Damn, I can't believe you're going again," I sighed. "You've only been back, what, a few days?" "I know, I know, I'm sorry," Jackie replied. "Five days. I'll be back in five days." "But how long after that until you're back out on another business trip?" I asked. "This is getting ridiculous." "Geez Cole, are you really doing this now?" Jackie asked ster...
Merton sobbed. Great. Whacking. Heart sucking, lung destroying sobs. He curled inwards on himself, his arms wrapped around his shins. He sobbed - and then choked out a loud, blubbery: "What the absolute livery fuck?" The space surrounding the transparent cocoon of life sustaining dragon-shifted cells that sheathed his naked, goo-slick body was filled with...
DAY 0 -- 10:00 PM "It just looks like...chocolate," I said, looking down at the pair of cubes on the silver wrapper. "It probably is chocolate," Corrie said. "The delivery medium, anyway. The active ingredient will be mixed inside." She tossed her slacks over the chair and scooped a pair of comfy gray sweatpants from her suitcase. "It's just not how I...
My Heart is My Jewel: A Tall Tale Parable Sony Pictures logo Universal logo Chapter One: A Hopeless Reality Gustavo Santaolalla's "The Choice" begins Quote fades in. "You may not understand now, but in due time, all will be revealed to you" - Jesus Fade to black. I remember a dark time in my life. A time of complete sorrow. Yelling into the darkness...