Note: Thanks to Liter Knight for the edit. Sorry again for the delay. ***** "Somebody grab their guns," Stansy said. Slowly, reluctantly, I opened my eyes and looked down. If I had been hit, I couldn't see it, and I couldn't feel it, either. In front of me, Robert lay on the floor, clutching a wound low on his abdomen. His face was set in a rictus of pai...
I joined the Air Force in 1988 at the age of 19 with a guaranteed job of Aeromedical Specialist, which at the time had an Air Force Specialty Code of 4F0X1. I was excited as hell to both get out of my small hometown which offered a high school graduate nearly very little when it came to job opportunities, and nothing along the lines of excitement either. Joi...
Ted Davis I recently had the opportunity to read Sandy's account of our life together as well as the brief summary of her and my life following our marriage. I think it's appropriate for me to share a different perspective on those events, and what they really meant to all of us left behind so to speak. Sandy's recollection of how we met and married was...
Thank you for reading this story. It's a little shorter than my latest stories but I hope there is still enough to it for your enjoyment. It's not exactly a Covid-19 tale, although there is a little tip of the hat to it in here, and I guess the lockdown meant I had time to write it... Please leave a comment if you'd like to, as I really appreciate those of...
Thanks to TerrytheTraveler and my new reader StoshB for lending a hand with catching errors. Any gaffs, typos, dropped words, usage errors, omissions, commissions, permissions, WTFs and OMGs are totally my fault. Enjoy! Summary This installment takes place immediately following the previous one. The Nahua noblewoman, Lady Izel of Ocotépan, widow of the d...
Boxing Day afternoon Jessica Lovage-Martin cleared her throat, while gripping her furry microphone, the air still thick with acrid smoke. Dave the cameraman and Pat the producer/director from the Brighton studios had only just arrived and she needed to do an overdue update report for the evening news. She had been off-air for over an hour and a half, after...
CHAPTER 1 Jake Barrow was the new man at Marble City Fund, a mutual fund management company in Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite its odd location, the relatively small firm had been in business for more than 100 years and carried on profitably through economic booms and busts. The firm hired Jake in 2014, as a new fund manager. The company only had 4 managers...
For everyone who has followed this story so far you have my thanks, and I am extremely grateful for the feedback. There were some very valid complaints about chapter four. I wrote the first three chapters so that they could stand on their own if need be. I was not sure how my writing would be received and there's nothing I hate more than having a series left...
I had gone home, and puttered around the house a little. I thought we'd mended the gap between us only to be told to wait a little longer. My head and heart felt like the sea during a storm, tossing and swirling, completely unsettled. I was under a storm cloud when the phone rang. At first my heart jumped, hoping it was Chrissy, before I reached for it I tho...
Ch. 11a: Waltz with the Demon's Pet 1 The room was dark and hot. The air was thick with vapor and scent of sulfur. The heat was so intense, even for the Dwarves. The cavern was located deep inside the bowels of the earth. It was a home of no one, for nothing could survive in these unfriendly environment, not even monsters or subterraneous beasts. A lone ma...