Prologue "You can't be serious." Kazuo Abe stepped back, away from his shadowed assailant. His eyes darted, desperately looking for help or hope. His head stayed locked in place, his sweat-coated face twitching. The other man said nothing, moving ever quicker towards Kazuo. There was nobody else to be seen. But then, why would there be? The only other men...
Michael spent the next two days tossing between disappointment, misery and anticipation. He went through the motions of a normal weekend. Dinner with the family. Golf with his dad. All the things that normally filled his free time quite nicely. But all the while Alicia lurked in his thoughts. Popping up at unexpected moments and calling his full attention ba...
"I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better." ― Jacque Fresco If you're a mouse in a cage, you don't see yourself as such, because you don't see the cage. Instead, you view yourself as...
“Watch out for the bat!” I ducked just in time as a flying toy buzzed through the plastic hair on my Frankenstein’s monster mask and crashed into the wall. Immediately, two girls rushed to retrieve it. First to get there was a sensuous Black Cat. With her buxom build and auburn hair flowing down her black velvet back, I guessed that it was Kitty Rourke, the...
1 I am a scientist. I am a man of conviction and not a little bit of grandeur, a colossus of erudition, master of chemical and physical applications, well versed in the theoretical as well as the concrete laws of this, the very universe. That is how I wish my tale of genius would begin. Perhaps it was nothing more than egotistical hubris. Regardless of my...
Prologue You know at the end of any really good action thriller or really bad horror movie, the hero is sitting there amidst the smoldering rubble of a building he had to blow the hell out of just to give the baddies a proper send off? Then some gorgeous woman starts shoving her way through the crowd of onlookers so that she can embrace her poor knight in s...
Chapter 1. Goodbye St. John. Snow fell on Mount St. John last night. It has made a tiny white cone on top of the mountain, the first intimation of winter. Here at Windabri, in the valley, it is still autumn but up there in that little cone of white it is already winter. St. John is about thirty kilometres from Windabri, and serves as is a sort of seasona...
I would have to say (others might not agree) that my life was fairly normal for the first twenty-five years of it. A 'middle of the roader' would be a pretty accurate description. In school I never made the honor role, but I never failed a class. In the sports I went out for I usually made the team, but I was never a stand out star. My extra curricular act...
Chapter Seven-- Pictures Found Jack scurried back to his place very anxious to download these new pictures. He had more pictures than before, because he had photographed two couples this time. He was very pleased. Jack also knew he had a lot of work in front of him that would not be completed this day. He worked through dinner and into the night. He had ma...
Click And with that click of the mouse the ad was posted. Sent into the dark abyss that was the internet. The unspoken place where men and women went to in search of something. And that something was different for everyone. But everyone came to the same place to begin. And that's where she found herself. She saw the words in bright color on the scre...