It didn't show. The stress bleeding Arisis's energy away, making his soul coil in his body, it settled around him like an invisible layer of drying lacquer over his heart, constricting and protecting deceptively. A thin, crackled lacquer bridge from problems that must be solved to some other place was hardly strong enough to hold for long. David watched hi...
Alera sprinted down the street. Her hair whipped behind her as she flew by the closed stores. Five vampires. How had she, a vampire herself, just seen five vampires murdered right before her eyes? Yes, she supposed they could have been Newborns, but still five vampires? She thought back to how the vampires moved, how they fought. No, they couldn't be Ne...
Chapter Twenty: Argos When Damien opened his eyes that evening he found her sitting in the bay window seat, staring out into the night, and sharpening a wooden stake. Despite his alarm, he sat up from his bed slowly. "Rambo," he quipped. "We meet again." She simply kept whittling away the sharpened tip of the stake. "I'm not here to hurt you," she assure...
Gian could hear an odd rhythmic fluttering noise buzzing in his head. He woke up. He had woken up many times before. He laid still as he mentally assessed his body and ability to move. There were times that he would awake but find that he couldn't move or would want to speak but couldn't speak. There were times he woke up and could move a finger, a toe, an a...
In the medical world, it got called the Hormone-Oriented Sexual Transmutative Disease. The disease was transmittable through sexual activity and, as its symptoms and causes became more well-known, it got classified as an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) very quickly. Many people were fearful of the disease. They were never sure if they'd catch it, nor how...
Unnamed Planet, Sector 98-A, Neutral Space The Milky Way Galaxy 2398 "Uh oh." Tiffany Winters did not want to hear 'uh oh.' She didn't want to hear 'oh dear' or 'fuck' or 'shit' or anything like that but she most definitely did not want to hear 'uh oh.' In fact, she didn't want to hear anything at the moment. At the moment, her head felt as if it was be...
© Sadie Rose Bermingham and Bellora Quinn 2013 Apologies for the hold up with London Loves... I've had a short, real life related break recently and editing has been on the back burner but hopefully now we can get the story back online and finish this arc for you all. Thanks as ever to all who have written and supported us throughout the series. The same w...
How long had the Ganthorian Scientist Harpea stared at the wall waiting on the dimension hoppers to return? Her constant flickering inner eyelids ceased function. In her tired state even her telepathy fell silent. Having used it recently to monitor her crew members. For some reason their thoughts were gradually fading away. In silence Harpea nearly dozed off...
"Well, your finally are awake. How are you?" "Awake, huh? Where am I? Who are you?" "You may call be Sir Tristan. You are in my humble castle," said Tristan. "Castle?! And wait, I thought your name was Matt," said Erin looking around wildly. "Yes castle," replied Tristan. "You lost consciousness back in the club, so I brought you here." Erin memory swam...
The woman known to the few who were aware of her as Beth looked around at the paintings covering every inch of her small, dark castle. Lady Elisabeth Della Nostrum, or Beth as her modern name had become, quietly smiled to herself as she eyed the colourful pictures. Not photos, at least that part of the legends was true. Beth was always amused at some of her...