"General Anderson, have you had any contact with the president or at least an acting executive?" "Yes," the old man answered as a dozen other reporters tried to ask a question. "We've been in touch with Air Force One. As you have been briefed, the President and senior advisers are being moved to a secure location where they will establish a command. In the...
Matt was a cutie. He'd been kind of watching me surreptitiously from under his foppish, blonde hair every chemistry lesson since the beginning of term. At first, I thought he disapproved of me... one of only three girls in the A-Level retake class, I was my usual slightly brash, very chatty self and more than capable of holding my own both socially and acade...
Part 4 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ She sat on the bed shivering violently, seemingly oblivious to her brother’s attempts at conversation. Her eyes remained fazed, fixated on the blurred images in front of her, but she saw nothing of the room she was in. The only images that were of any clarity were the horrifying memories of the Festival that flared to life behind her g...
The Paul & Jenny Stories Pt. 15h: Another June Wedding Part 8 (Copyright 2001 by Paul. All rights reserved). All events and characters are fictitious. * * * * * Somerset 1972. Jenny. I awoke at seven o'clock with the sun streaming through my window. I could do with a cup of tea. I slipped into my dressing gown and visited the bathroom, cursing the no...
The pounding went on, hour after hour of thudding impacts rocking the dimly-lit underground shelter and sending dust drifting down between the wooden beams and onto the people huddled below. At this point, a full three years since the arrival of the Rippers, the survivors were the quiet ones. Dirty, haunted men with hollow eyes above their scraggly beards le...
It was raining cats and dogs and it had been the same thing for two weeks. The rivers nearby Kyrhan's palace were flooding and many refugees had found shelter in the palace park which was ten feet higher than the rest of the plain. Kyrhan being the former local Maharajah had felt obliged to let them in. Few tourists visited the region during the monsoon usua...
Memoirs of Kitty Siam – The Southern Front. It had been a month since the planning session and the meeting with the Prince. The weapons we had planned for were coming in to the castle much faster than we had anticipated. Since the fall of Na'Tal there had been a steady stream of refugees into Kreet and those that had the needed skills or were willing to lea...
Chapter Seventeen – The Battle of Hórkustk Ris The Grand Duke and his entourage left the capitol and crossed the Rika Chorna river in a fleet of ferries. He commented to his commanders that, if he survived the upcoming war, he'd have to build a bridge to span the river closer to the capitol. It was ridiculous to have to cross like this, in boats like common...
There was a slight chill in the air, but Rouran paid it no mind. She did not begrudge Yvain's decision to celebrate with his friends. She'd whiled away a wonderful few hours with him, and it had felt, if not pleasant, perhaps natural...modern...to abandon each other to their own plans. She made her way up the Guild Hill, arriving at the vai Ullan estate. T...
My name is Catherine Aisha Cailloux, and I'm a young Frenchwoman living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I was born in the Camargue region of France, to a French father and Lebanese-Canadian mother. My mother, Elisabeth Abdul-Hamid, often spoke of her life in the Confederation of Canada, where her family moved during the Lebanese Civil War. She ca...