A big "Thank you" for bikoukumori, ninja editor! Also, a huge thanks to all you readers out there. Seeing you enjoy what I'm dreaming up is a massive boost. Keep the feedback coming! As usual, there's only adults playing here, and... oh, damn. Yes, this time it's serious. #8 On the run "You want me to what," the man across from me asked, his voice tippin...
He found a secluded place. Someone would have to drive along the small road and see his parked car and then find us a hundred meters or so away in the shade of some trees. He spread out his blanket. It would really have been too small for all of us, even if Anna had been hoping we could sit closer together. We spread out our towels. As I was still wonderin...
I woke about four in the morning realizing that Frank was not beside me, as I peered through the darkness I could hear him talking softly on the phone in the attached bath. "No, don't arrest her, if you do she'll have to go before the judge. Just put her in one of the cells away from as many people as possible. It's empty? Great, put her toward the back wh...
Mistress Daniela's POV Vampire Council HQ, New York City I shifted in my seat, my anger threatening to rise as I watched the videoconference from Miami. The leader of the Miami South coven, Master Sebastian, had moved his coven from Cuba to Miami in the Ariel Boat Lift. Quickly establishing himself and growing a fortune in real estate, he was a powerful va...
Chapter 1 Lightly bearded Ted Brough, dressed in a faded red polo shirt draped over the belt-line of near indestructible faded jeans that topped scruffy soft lace-ups, stopped his Jeep Grand Cherokee on the roadside at the edge of town. The aggressive leader and two irate followers dragged a severely beaten guy from the vehicle. Two centuries ago, victim...
Chase Nygaard's POV Arrowhead Pack Clinic "Help me get dressed and take me back to the house," Frank said. "I need to be there when the investigators arrive." "You need to rest, Frank," I replied. "Then carry me back in the stretcher. Hurry up; I'd rather go through the tunnel than be carried outside in this shit." "Fine. We'll dress you later," I...
I was running on the treadmill upstairs when I heard Max's knock on the door. I was lost in my own thoughts, panting and sweaty when I was jarred back to reality—it was dinner time. He gave me a funny look when I opened the door and handed me a duffel bag, "Working out?" I followed him as he strolled in nonchalantly, this time to the living room instead of...
The invaders tore through the border defenders like one of those posters that cheerleaders hold up for the football team to run through before the game. In seconds, over fifty bloodthirsty wolves had ripped the throats of ten Pack members and left them bleeding into the pine straw that lined the forest near the edge of the lake. The Alpha looked at what was...
Ch. 3: David loses Ainsley Author's Note "An Artificial Life" is the first story I have written, an exploration of general-purpose artificial intelligence -- how that might come about and what that might mean. I am enjoying exploring the creation of sentience as it relates to the creator, to the created, and to the rest of the world. This is the third cha...
The following was inspired by stlimanika's 2011 story, "Vacation Away," a story about a family on vacation. The wife gets pregnant by a man they meet at the hotel and the husband accepts the result. While the basic premise remains mostly the same, the characters are different, a few more twists have been included and the result is quite different. To unders...