Save your breath, the firefighter told me as she tried to help me out from the rubble. I looked at the tall, crimson-haired and brown-skinned young Black woman, whose lusciously dark skin was covered with soot, and fought back the urge to smile. I don't breathe, I thought smugly and took the hand she offered. Fires in large apartment buildings like this can...
It started in a dream. Ashley knew it was a dream the way everyone sort-of knows it's a dream, when they're dreaming. But sort-of knowing it's a dream doesn't always mean you don't get scared, or happy, or turned on. Knowing it's a dream doesn't help very much when it all feels so incredibly vivid. And this dream was deeper and more vivid than any Ashley ha...
Michael Stone watched from the rafters of the old warehouse. He had worked his way up into the dank and dusty old beams carefully and quietly. It had taken precious time. Time that he knew he might not have had. There was just enough light filtering in through the clouded window panes of the warehouse's old roll-up door for him to see. The scene below him w...
The sun rose over the city of Boston. Like many of the city's denizens, I'm in bed. However, unlike most of them, this is where I'm going to stay. Oh, it's not because I'm lazy. You see, I'm a vampire. Yeah, one of the denizens of the night. There are quite a few of us around. The world thinks we're mere myth and to be honest, we prefer it that way. We let t...
The night air was humid, but of course, it was always humid in New Orleans. The girl walked along the streets of the French Quarter often. She felt at peace there strolling along among the carefree characters of the night. She walks along unfrightened and content. A mysterious stranger sees her saunter by and is instantly intrigued. Her long flowing red hai...
Author's Note: Thanks for all the fantastic feedback, I really do appreciate it. A BIG thank you goes to my editor JillieB for her exception work. * Micah, age 10 She hid in the shadow of the table, hoping no one would notice her as she crouched low and remained motionless. The stranger approached, the faint scent of blood still clinging to him. Micah d...
The Ancient Graveyard A supernatural series of stories mostly set in the Ancient Graveyard of Grazghul Note: Hardcore undead sex "Turn back to all who enter! Here lies Zarnath the Undying, the accursed Lord of Grazghul." - A sign among the tombstones. Episode 5: The Lord of Grazghul Midnight, in Zarnath's crypt in the Ancient Graveyard of Grazghul....
"Welcome to Hell," the Demon Agares said to Hafiza Elmi as the Vampire Queen arrived in the area called Tartarus, where the worst of the worst are kept. The Vampire took a look at the Demon Lord, who didn't look anything like she'd ever imagined. Hafiza Elmi expected to see fire and brimstone, fire and torment, and eternally wailing souls everywhere, being t...
The Living Dead walk the planet Earth, hungry for human flesh, and that's not even the worst part. In this post-apocalyptic world, there were few certainties. Even death isn't final anymore. Chaos reigns everywhere, and after the Governments of America and the United Kingdom thought they could destroy the Zombies by bombing some of the world's most heavily i...
She showered, letting the water massage her skin, and found a wide array of soaps and shampoos for her to use, she picked what she thought was the most expensive of them. She dried her hair, and also found a make-up kit underneath the sink, and redid her make-up, doing it as much as she could the way it was supposed to be for the party. She redressed in th...