"Kanika.... wake up, Kanika!!" I opened my eyes sleepily and saw Rohan combing his hair in front of the mirror. "You're finally awake!" he smiled at me "Looks like you were really tired after last night. Didn't have energy to put on a nightgown, did you?" I looked at him quizzically, and then looked down at myself... I was naked! I never slept in the nude...
Part One She awoke in darkness, as she had for the past 2 months... She found it hard to believe that she and been in the Internment camp for 2 whole months. Every day was like the one that passed before, Grueling rounds of physical labor interspersed with the punishing regimen of sleep deprivation and bad food, all played out to a never ending sound trac...
Ahma woke, the screams of her nightmare finally given voice and filling the clearing. She trashed and kicked, her eyes unseeing. All her senses were consumed by that terrible night of her childhood. She heard her mother's screams instead of her own, and her nose was filled with the acrid smell of smoke. In her eyes, the sky was painted crimson with the blood...
Many thanks to Kumani for editorial assistance. * Two years ago when I first became a full-time student at the state university's city campus I was fortunate enough to find a part-time job, one that I still have to this day. Twenty hours a week I work in a small family run pastry shop called the Donut King. While the amount of money I earn there is modest,...
Mrs. Stetler had been going on about her husband's stroke for about ten minutes: how it had left him so impaired, how their life together had been so devastated, the many hours she'd spent in performing home rehab, to the point that she was now awakening during the night with hands numb and tingly. Hence, the referral by her geriatrician to the neurologist t...
I swore under my breath as Jason sat calmly across from me, waiting for my move. He released a long, steady breath. I saw the edge of his mouth twitch, his lips smiling slightly. He saw something I didn’t see, and I knew it. This was the part of the game I was worst at, the end, when I had very few pieces left. He didn’t have many pieces himself; we were act...
As I lay in bed that night, at a hotel a long way from home, it all came back to me like a bad movie I couldn't turn off. Over the previous 15 years, I had never forgotten what had happened, but I had managed to suppress it and not dwell on it. But earlier that night, it had been forcefully thrust back into the forefront of my conscious thoughts... ^ ^...
Chapter 4 A week passed before Azlorik and Mistale reached the immense cavern that was home to the Dark Elf city of T'larghaun. Each day was fraught with more peril than Mistale had expected. Her body bore the scars of Azlorik's brutality. His cruelty knew no bounds. Azlorik no longer needed to use his magic to command her to do his bidding. He was confiden...
"Hey, Boss. Derek said you wanted to see me?" Georgina looked up from where she was standing bent over behind her desk, studying some papers. She gazed at me and for the thousand and first time I was captivated by her blue eyes. She had a good ten years on my thirty five, not that anyone would have guessed it and I only knew her age as I'd gone looking in t...
Intro Jim, an airforce pilot is badly injured when his ejector seat misfires him into his canopy. Because of his injuries he's put on the cyborg program, both legs and arms are replaced and he has a power pack in his bowels. His life as a pilot over he's recruited into the FBI and retrained, at the end of his training he is offered a unique opportunity, o...