Gwen watched Steve dive into the icy waters without any apparent hesitation. Then, as her dress pooled at her feet, she kicked off her heels and headed for the river. Ashley was calling to her, but Gwen's attention was on the scene in the river. A man in a suit had climbed out of the helicopter and was trying to swim to shore. Although it was only about a h...
Thank you for stopping by and checking out my story. It's the second story in this series. The game Overwatch figures into this tale, and although I usually try to avoid pinning my stories down to a specific time, this particular story is set around September to December 2017, and by the time it got published, some of the characters, abilities and powers h...
School had started once again and I was well into my graduate school program. Life was good for me as I had found out that my wife Jane was pregnant with twin girls, our gathering for our scholarship recipients went extremely well, our household was running quite efficiently and everyone in our little family seemed to be very happy. Other than my school work...
INTRODUCTION A week out of college, graduating with a Master's of Science in Information Technology with specialization in web development, Kevin Crichton decided he didn't wish to work in computer technology because his interest in the plodding ways and precision of its application had declined. He knew he ought to have studied fast cars and how to design...
Is this all that we are? We wretched few... Is this all that we're destined to become? // "You killed him! You monster, you beast!" The girl was sobbing but there was venom in her eyes. An actual desire to kill. When I went home, I went straight to my grandmother. "Baba? Am I a monster?" The woman gasped. "No sweetie. You're a child; and a very sweet...
Nick Hollister drove his ancient Caprice Classic down the desert highway, having left his world behind only a few hours earlier. The radio was broken, and he lost himself in the reverie of the road. It was after nine, and the wind pulled the car as if to tear it from the highway and toss it into the desert. When he saw the sign announcing a rest stop, Nick...
***This is the second winter inside the mountain for Azrael & company. Now Dahlgren and his family of fugitives have appeared, needing to hide. This chapter's a bit longer because I wanted to move this bunch ahead a bit more. Selena is still on the quiet journey and she seems drawn along like a leaf in a slow stream. 0_o ---------------- They came to the l...
***I sometimes 'complete' characters visually. That is, I have an idea but nothing visual at the outset. I might be looking at something and they come to me. It didn't work that way with Dahlgren. For Dahlgren, I happened to be looking at the cover of a PC game and there was a guy in the background. He's not Dahlgren, but if you saw the picture, you'd get...
--- Changes. Less than a year of time has flown by... and yet it seemed to stream back a millennium. How exactly do you describe such changes as those I had experienced? The answer of course, is you can't... to my gentle readers, who have been pulled along by my words, thank you for sharing what I learned, what I felt... what I lived. But I had changed... an...
The short fat man swirled the brandy and then raised the glass and inhaled the heady fumes. He smiled when he considered that it cost the equivalent of a day's wages for many of the people living in his country. Life was good. Before he walked towards the balcony doors to open the drapes he turned off the room lights. Even though he was in the penthouse of...