Jon stood by the doorway to the abandoned house that concealed his real home and watched the sun slowly sink down below the horizon. He turned his attention to the streets and the homeless beggars that ambled aimlessly. Marcus usually walked by at sunset to see if Jon needed to talk to him, if his mind wasn't too far gone that day. But Jon was in luck; Marc...
~~Eric~~ "How the fuck did no cops follow us?" Eric said. Beatrice had to stop driving and let him take the wheel, before the dumb woman ended up getting them all killed. "I mean you nearly hit a hundred pedestrians, and I'm pretty sure you killed a dog." "I did not kill a dog, Eric. I'll fucking kill you if you don't shut up." "... I'm pretty sure you—"...
The Gaze of the Abyss Once she lost the attention of the retributive head mistress, Norma's life settled into a type of normalcy and mostly boredom, much to her relief. The vast majority of the female slaves served purely as decoration, housed and kept at exorbitant expense as a status symbol. The unseen potentate had detached private quarters where he kept...
Chapter 10 -- Abandon. Fear rose in John's chest; "We have to get home." John and Mira threw their backpacks on, and headed off into the bush. John stole one last look back at Tom's place before it went out of view; at the location where such horror had taken place the last couple of days. With a quiet sigh, he turned his focus back to getting home. Dry g...
You may want to read the previous chapters before this one. There are six chapters in all. Estragon copy edited this chapter. DG Hear Chapter 4 I had played with Vicky and gotten her ready for bed. I lay on the couch and watched TV and fell asleep. I heard someone knocking hard on my door. I was a bit disoriented just waking up but the knocking didn't stop...
Hopix was exhausted. She'd healed Alan for almost an hour, though she felt she'd barely given him the energy to recover. She laid her head down, she'd not felt this tired in over a thousand years. Alan had to fight this; he was far stronger than she thought. She fought the sleep for hours, accepting food once from a small friendly child who hugged Hopix, sta...
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The Olsen 'family' Dairy farm had begun as a smallholding some two hundred years in the distant past. As time ground on most of the other local farms sold up to the ever growing big farming companies or vanished into housing development. The Olsen farm struggled on defiantly, slowly lagging further and further behind its competitors until the farm was only k...
Once the red light on the camera went on, I went to stand in front of the bed. I was confident the camera had me – and the tied up white robe I was wearing – in full view. With that assuring me, I went on with my introduction. "Hello. If this is only being watched by future me in the future, you know who I am," I said. "If the worst has happened and other p...
My old friend "Welcome yaar, welcome," I said extending my hand to embrace him. I was at the airport to receive Ganesh, my childhood friend. His parents were abroad and he lived his life with his uncle & aunt and various hostels. He managed to be thrown from almost all hostels within six months. St. Gregarious was the only hostel that he finally managed to...