Part 1: Hunter and Hunted --- The sun rose over the ancient forest, its warm, dappled light revealing a small herd of deer gathered in a clearing. Quietly they grazed in the midst of the towering trees of their subtropical home. Quiet they were, but not off guard. Their ears were ever raised, alert for the slightest abnormal sound, their eyes scanning, an...
*****Hi dear readers. I hope you guys are loving the series so far. To be honest with you, I'm happy this arc is being finished. Why? Because like I said before, I really didn't like doing the whole 'conflicting family issues' cliché. In almost every story depicting heroes, there's a nasty situation between siblings, parents, uncles, aunts (not really), but...
Copyright and All Rights Reserved Shawn Keith. Barbara’s Story Part IV by Shawn Keith Reach me at the link below the story. Let me know that you think. The rain poured down as Barbara pulled into the real estate office parking lot. She didn’t have her umbrella and had just arrived for an interview. She sat frustrated in her car. She was going to be late. Th...
Author's note: Welcome to the third chapter of Two Thousand and Ten - the tale of a year in the life of two friends from a seaside town in southern England. I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the following chapter is purely a work of fiction, my character names are chosen totally at random, and no resemblance to any person (living or d...
Hi folks, The feedback, encouragement, and patience has been much appreciated so here's the next chapter. Thank you to prof_W303, WideAwakeNow, and Darksable for their time and effort with editing. Stay tuned and I hope you enjoy. LTPC *** Between fight and flight, Chris was indeed in flight. Well, free fall, anyway. He plunged downward through grey no...
With trembling hands, Audrey opened the letter from the tribunal she had just found in her mailbox. "What more could they possibly want from me?" she thought. Standing on the moist lawn in front of her house, wearing only her nightgown, she unfolded the letter, and read the main text in the light of the breaking day : "When you were condemned to have the mi...
"Ruby? James?" Elle Franklin searched the Hilton for them. Room to room. Down corridors. The Lab. The basement bathing area. Beyond those she had not explored. They had been so busy the last few weeks there had been no time to discover new things. Something they really should have done long ago. In a starship the size of three football fields there was most...
Looking back, all the signs were there. Rita never wanted sex anymore. That alone didn't alarm me, given our sex life had never been vigorous. Then she started paying more attention to her appearance after years of neglect. Throw in the prolonged absences without sound explanations. The whispered phone conversations which ended abruptly when I entered th...
She couldn't believe this was happening. Her heart was beating hard and fast. She could feel the pulse in her throat and hear the rapid thrum of it in her ears. She felt warm and flushed, even though she was completely naked. The surface she lay on was soft and molded comfortably under her. The fur tickled gently along the edges of her skin. She was acutely...
Toby was sitting at the kitchen table, finishing his morning coffee, slurping the last remnants at the bottom of the cup. It made a rude noise that always annoyed his new wife. She glanced at him, exasperated. Like her mother, she was a stickler for propriety. Manners and decorum were important. In fact, she took almost three hours the first day of their hon...