My Christmas story, hopefully to be followed by others, in time to fill the wheel.... my attempt at a holiday edition, enjoy :-) ~*~*~*~ The snow glistened under the light of the nearly full moon as feet softly made their way through the darkened forest. The sharp taste of new fallen snow clung to the air, seeped through the skin and coated the lungs of t...
Chapter 10 -- Abandon. Fear rose in John's chest; "We have to get home." John and Mira threw their backpacks on, and headed off into the bush. John stole one last look back at Tom's place before it went out of view; at the location where such horror had taken place the last couple of days. With a quiet sigh, he turned his focus back to getting home. Dry g...
~~~ Special thanks to Strangebuddy for providing the inspiration for this story ~~~ ~~~ "Rodger Houston, I'm hearing you loud and clear up here. All systems are go. I'm going to initiate Phase 4 on your go-ahead." "Copy that Hermes III. Systems are nominal. Proceed with Phase 4." You slowly type in the last sequences into the computer. You double check e...
Sigrid lay looking up at the lightly lit roof with Mirja's naked body nestled up to her own. She could not help but to think of Torun. Not even with her had she felt like this. Mirja had worshipped her entire body for the last five bells and there was not a single point of her flesh that Mirja's tongue had not explored. The bells struck two in the morning a...
Star-Gazer Temple: By far the highest and most unattainable Temple in Craglorn. Very few people ever got to see it, let alone live in it. Yet, there were four priestesses that had made their way, protected it, and everything it stood for all their lives. Each of them had a rank that dignified what their purposes and burden was. The High priestess protected a...
It took far too long to concentrate the army. Tallia performed miracles, and kept every regiment fed and supplied. But it was almost a month before the majority of the troops designated for my army could be gathered. Colonel Lupona didn't let me down. She identified 6 of the best regiments in the former central army - including hers - and then introduced m...
* Currently working on episode 29, and maybe even have finished it by the time of this one going live. One more after that, and volume three is complete for the final editing and release. Another milestone reached. * 'I should be back some time during the afternoon.' said Guy as he picked up his laptop case. 'Have a safe trip, darling.' said Feli and kiss...
I went to church camp as a counselor for teen girls a few years ago. I was there for four nights. While there I ran into a younger man, we will call him Edwin, who I'd known for several years. Edwin was a youth director at a church in a nearby town. He was at the camp as a boy's counselor for the church he worked for. One of the jobs of the counselors was to...
I knew no man was supposed to go out at night. Women, yes, but not us men. I couldn't count the number of times I had been told, 'It's too dangerous at night. Stay here. Or go with a woman.' Of course I didn't listen. I never listen. I had to know. I had to know what it was that had everyone so frightened to let their sons out at night. I stalked through...
AUTHORS NOTE: The building where Eve and Steve take shelter on Helvellyn is real. It exists. But be warned, I've exaggerated the size and condition of it so don't go there in the middle of winter expecting a cosy little bothy, because it isn't. ***** CHAPTER 36: HELEN COLTMAN'S STRIDING EDGE Five AM. We got washed and dressed, packed our rucksacks with th...