(This story is a continuation of a series of stories about Commander Murphy. Reading the previous stories will give the reader a better idea of the development of the story line and of the characters.) Commander Andrew David Augustus Murphy, U.S. Navy (Retired) sat and watched the noon news on the Fox News Network. He mumbled under his breath about the stat...
©2011 Drake Collins All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER ONE Cam Zyzerbachus, born 23 years ago on a planet called Arceus Echelon, had a fairly ordinary childhood. His parents opted for a natural, non-engineered birth. Most people in his parents' financial bracket could afford to genetically manufacture their kids, from their future height and hair color to artist...
~~Jack~~ "I uh, have a girlfriend." "Oh, damn." She let go of his shoulder, but shrugged and kept walking. "Glad you told me though. Surprising, given your circumstances. Figured you might have said yes to a date just to get on my good side." "The thought had occurred to me." Except suffering Antoinette's wrath would have been a million times worse than p...
Montauk, New YorkDawn, October 5th, 2018 "It's going to be fine, Finn. This is going to work. I love you." I kept my voice from quavering as I stared into Finn's eyes. His fear and love shone through and made it that much more difficult for me to maintain any semblance of calm. My heart was beating so hard that I became worried about a coronary. Wouldn't...
This is probably the darkest of the One Week Chronicles story - Part 2 certainly is! - but I enjoy trying to find new ways to write and explore characters. I'll be very interested to know your thoughts on this one as it's probably the furthest from me, but was still huge fun to explore. As ever, it slots perfectly into the timeline and happens before the v...
I arrived at the handsome estate on a rather messy and dreary evening in the late of fall. The sky was full of bloated, dark grey clouds that were ready to burst upon the Earth below at any second. Already the slow leak of drizzel had filled the air with the tossing and twirling of small, watery spouts that landed like gossamer upon the limousine windows and...
I gasped suddenly, waking to the feeling that my dream monster had been real. And not just in my sleep, but had crossed over somehow. My eyes darted wildly all around the darkened room, searching for him. In the corners, behind the recliner. Nothing could be seen. Not even a light from the outside. I really hoped I had been wrong. That there wasn't some boog...
27 "Before I tell you I need to explain something. I have worked for these people for the last two years and up until very recently I thought that they were the good guys, at least that was what they kept telling me. My involvement until this assignment was to provide certain important people with 'entertainment'. I wasn't involved in the actual entertainme...
ACT 1 -- Nurture your females Chapter 5 -- Bonnie's family "Mum where's my hair bands?" called the small black haired girl as she rummaged in her bedroom drawers for the cloth covered rubber bands that held her hair in the ponytails she liked as she ran and played with her friends on the sports fields. "I packed them sweetie, sorry," said Dianne Gilroy as...
"She wants to MEET me?" Ann said quietly, frozen in her seat. I was standing beside the car, having opened the door to help Ann out. And I'd just let her know that Julie, the Manager of the mountain Resort we were checking into for the night, was excited about meeting her. But Ann was astounded by what I'd told her, and she stared at the floor in disbelief....