This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between the characters, events, or locations in this story and actual locations, events, or people are purely coincidental. © 2005 Warlord As the horsemen closed, my vision fixated on those sharpened points. Clearly they were from the "spit'em and let somebody else sort'em out" school. No pansy ass "innocent un...
"The only certainties in this life are death and taxes," Brandon Jones said with a sigh. Lying on a hospital bed, in the intensive care unit of the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, Brandon felt his eyes drooping, although whether that had to do with the meds or his general tiredness, he couldn't say for sure. He would have fallen asleep again if it weren't for...
"NO! Let me go! Please! You don't understand. I must! LET ME GO!" He was fighting to hold on, because this girl was dead serious about jumping. No ordinary suicide attempt, this one. This wasn't his first experience with a suicide jumper by far, but normally you could talk people down and make them think twice about their decision. Not this time though. She...
It was several hours later when Kal awoke, still well before dawn. The shoddy traveler's lodge wasn't the sort of place he preferred to stay but Astra had been demanding. After she'd finished wringing him out he had been left completely worn out and rather than wending his way back to the more comfortable room he was renting for himself, he'd simply collapse...
It was late Thursday evening, as the audience swarmed out of the cinema onto the street. Among them were a group of four young women, who joked about the romantic comedy they had just seen. After walking a few hundred yards, they separated as they made their own way home. One was a pretty redhead who elected to take a shortcut through a back alley. She walke...
Thumbing through the mail I'd just carried in, I tossed my keys and handbag onto a chair. I'd seen an orange envelope hiding amongst the bills and catalogs as I'd pulled it all out of my mailbox and I wanted that envelope! Nick hadn't been able to come see me for a couple of weeks and work was keeping me at home too. My hope was that this was a card from him...
This day started out like any ordinary day for Ashley. She started her day at 6 a.m. in the morning and proceeded have breakfast with her family at 6:30 A.M. for breakfast she only had 4 plain egg whites with one apple and a banana. The reason she here so little is because she lived keeping her amazingly small and skinny, yet athletic figure. She was a goth/...
The infamous Oriental Rug of Al-Kroli was the final ill-fated creation of the hoary, hydrophobic Arab, Al-Kroli of Bhala-Kalava, whose madness had been caused by a miniscule injection of the rabies virus by an unlikely and unfortunate encounter with an infected camel. The torpidity and flatulence which increasingly drove both his consanguinous allies and his...
"And now Michelle Leonard will play a selection from Mozart," the conductor announced as a beautiful woman stood and approached the solitary microphone stage center. "This should be good," someone behind him stated. "I heard she's magnificent," his date whispered into his ear as the conductor slipped away from his microphone, allowing all eyes to settle u...
In the far reaches of the fifth dimension the pocket reality defied many things; reason, reality, fantasy… A realm home to beings capable of changing the laws of reality at the snap of a finger, in such a world anyone could have or do whatever they wanted really. But for one pans-dimensional imp it all summed up in one word. "BORING!" Floating aiml...