Will was surprised. He'd heard Bella talk about how bad hexes were before. "I thought you didn't hex people." "I don't, usually. It's one of those things the Magistrate really frowns on, but against pirates trying to kill us I'm willing to bend the rules," Bella smiled. She finished crawling around and drawing the second circle as Will tied the mirror to th...
I awoke underwater. It was warm water. It was salt water. I was naked and alone. I'm not sure how many times I had been in this position, but I was being reincarnated again. The sun was coming up, soon I would need to get out of this water and start my next life again. Maybe I misspoke; I would continue my life. I'll explain. I was born so long ago that I...
I'd just bought myself a new car, and I mean new -- fresh out of the factory. Not something I could normally afford but I'd done a favour for a bigwig in the factory and he arranged for me to have one cheap. By an odd coincidence the foreman at the time thought the car was going to be a VIP special and had arranged for all those little extras to be installed...
I'm Eric Williams. I'm married to Sarah. I work at Walmart as the head cashier. My job consists of scheduling all the cashiers. It's like herding fucking cats. Most of them are pretty good, but there is always that percentage that give me nothing but nightmares. I'm the one you cuss out when you have lines ten deep and only three lanes open. My wife is Sar...
The Moon Spectre Moon Base August 14, 2019 16:48 EDT "..we'll load up all the supplies you want to take with you and put them in Abi's dimensional storage first. After that, we'll load the shipping containers one by one. Now, as you said earlier, Black dragons can lift their own weight using telekinesis, right? We were thinking the best way to load the s...
37. Justice Knowing that Rift 5 was that close to Earth, made Mark a bit nervous. Earth was his home and all that remained to defend the planet was the Earth Spaceport. Sure, it was a space-based version of an aircraft carrier, but it was simply a fighter base with pulse cannons, laser turrets and TRDs... it had no singularity drivers, which was the only w...
"Take a seat, Janice," the braintech said, gesturing toward the chair. I sighed in resignation, as I always disliked being connected to that machine, but knew that it was critical that my every experience and thought from my latest assignment be extracted and stored and analyzed by what was rumored to be the most elaborate, complex, and thorough computer eve...
I couldn't wait to get into work. Not only because of the actions that took place during the road trip, but I received various emails. It seemed the higher-ups had listened to what I had to say and they were going to make changes. I wanted to implement them as soon as possible. "Morning," Eric said shaking his head. "I know," I replied. "You young peop...
When the nurse came in to take Tim's vital signs, she had to wake him up. He turned his head and saw Heidi, sound asleep, sitting in the chair next to his bed. His heart began to pound and he looked at his nurse. "How long has she been here?" he whispered. The nurse wrapped the blood pressure cuff around his arm. "I think about four hours," she said. "She c...
Deanna grew irritated as she waited for the doors of the subway car to slide open. After what felt like an eternity, the balky doors gave way and the heat from the nearby exit washed over her as she quickly stepped out onto the platform. Hoisting her bag higher up on her shoulder, she picked her way through the throng of early morning workaholics and reached...