There are two great things I love about Halloween. The first is I can dress up as a girl and no one would question my outfit. The second thing is with the proper make-up, crashing a party was easy. The Merviks, Ivan and Shyla moved into the area a couple of years ago. They tore down the existing bungalow and put up one of those monster homes; three story, t...
A clear blue sky stretched to the horizons, wispy clouds added a splash of color, and a light, cool breeze played with her hair. Spring had arrived, and the Mountain Laurel trees, always beautiful, hung a few inches lower, courtesy of the large purple flowers hanging from their branches. The combination of dark green, light purple, and speckles of white, rev...
He was right about Sarai. I didn't know how much time had actually passed, but I only got one more serving of gruel and water before she swept into my cell, demon in tow as before. When I heard the door I stood, ready to follow the script I'd decided on for myself as I waited. "Do whatever you want with me, but leave Leigh out of it," I told her. I didn't...
*****The Recap***** Jason didn't really consider himself a good person, but he still tried to be a nice guy. He was friendly after all, and seldom rude. He would often go out of his way for others, even going so far as to getting into fist fights to defend people he barely knew. The truth of the matter was that he had done those things because helping peopl...
You had to know the shop to find it. Not just know the name, or the address, but really know the store by the touch of magic in your soul. Without the grace of magic, the storefront would appear to be nothing but dusty windows and moldering boards. To me, and others like me, it was a worn looking but occupied little store front whose wares were displayed beh...
Chapter 1 "Time is up." Shyla exhaled. It felt like a breath she'd been holding for the entire hour. Half. At best, she thought. "Pencils down, please hand in your exams." This was not going well. She knew she was having trouble with the class, and she'd tried just about everything she could think of to do better. She'd tried the myriad items of advice...
***** A day of confrontations... ***** Jason's alarm went off far too soon, and with a groan he rolled over and covered his head with his pillow. The constant and incessant buzzing only got louder the longer he waited, as his alarm clock was designed to do, and it wasn't long before the sound alone drug him out of bed and across the room to silence it....
Chapter 29: Emotion "Mourabet?" The curvy green woman stared down at Zyra with disdain. She looked between her and the men on either side of her and snarled. "On to the next ones I see. Human loyalty is so fickle." Zyra tried to hide a wince. "What do you want Mourabet? You made me promise to never come to the Shyla tribelands again, and here you are."...
Zyra had fallen to the ground a total of fifty-six times in the last seven days. Out of those times, Medean had failed to catch her four times. Two of the incidents occurred because she had bounced off an air current, causing her to fly off into a random direction. The third happened because Medean had been called away for a moment. "Go," Caligula said sh...
Standing outside the private diagnostic clinic, the rain came down in buckets. The kind of rain, in big drops, so closely spaced, that if you looked up and opened your mouth, you'd drown. That kind of rain. Standing there, just under the overhang, I was still mostly dry. The girl—well, woman—standing next to me wearing a thin cotton dress, bare shoulders,...