LXXIXSick and SoreLindiwe2069 Although this was by no means the first time in her life that Lindiwe had been ill, she'd never before felt as desperately sick as she was now. Her luck had run out. The Buffalo Pox that had spread across England as it had the rest of Europe, Africa and Asia had finally chased her down. The horrible boils of pus on her face and...
My name is Terrence Jean Gauthier, though my friends call me T.J. for short. I was born in the town of Cap-Haitien in the island of Haiti in 1986. Three years later, my family moved to the City of Miami, State of Florida, where I've lived ever since. I graduated from Miami Dade College and Florida State University, where I earned my Criminal Justice degree....
Chapter Thirty-four -- Vesna Rogúskt-Orsktacktna So...Danka Síluckt's travels ended when the Path of her Life finally brought her back to Rika Héckt-nemát. Who would have thought she'd end up precisely where her journey started? Certainly not the traveling singers and story-tellers, who already were making up increasingly sorrowful and outlandish versions o...
Chapter Fourteen I.TR8.76.93 -- Year 1576 It wasn't much more than a matter of curiosity at first when the wardrobe-sized artefact first appeared on Earth's surface. Its materialisation in the Arizona Desert was too sudden and unexpected for its arrival to be intercepted. Although no one knew this at the time, it had just travelled across Interstellar space...
Hi. I'm a Stud. That's not a boast. It's a job description. When I say "stud" I mean it in its original sense: a male kept for breeding purposes. That's why we spell it with the capital "S" ... it's a job title, and I look at it as a job ... a really great job, in some respects, but a job all the same. My name's Geoff, but that's not important. In fact, mo...
Mephistopheles was a creature of means. He was industrious, cunning, and above all, persuasive. From the moment he appeared, wearing the skin of a shuck, and followed Dr. Johannes Faust into his study, there was no going back. Indeed, the deal was done long before the wily creature had ever made eye contact with the doctor. He stood before Johannes now, in t...
With a smile on my face, I lit the match and let it fall on the Kerosene-soaked floor. The flames roared, and rushed toward the trio of Vampires bound to the wooden pole, their howls of pain and fear sweet music to my ears as they burned to ash within seconds. Three fewer blood suckers in the world, all in a day's work. I slowly walked out of the warehouse a...
Clara pulled the crimson hood of her cape over her head and mentally braced herself for the trek through the woods. It was late in the day to begin a forest journey, but the wails of the suffering children she left behind spurred her steps onward. Darkness would probably have fallen by the time she returned, but she'd been in and out of the woods so many tim...
(I apologize in advance for this being another short chapter. I hadn't written this part when I posted the first chapter, if I had I would have included this as part of chapter one. This chapter gives a brief background to the ring and how it works and I promise if you stick with me the story will pick up in the next chapter.) (All characters depicted in an...
Searching for a costume for Halloween my wife who was also a research scientist decided upon Napoleon and Marie Antoinette, I said great your middle name is Marie that will work. She said you don't understand Marie, my heart leapt as I realized I was to be Marie and she Napoleon. She knew my desires to dress feminine and that I loved Halloween to dress. WE...