General Keinarsh was commanding on the Central front. I knew very little about her career, and had no way to judge if she could hold her own against superior Crolian numbers. I'd had 14 regiments, to face 20 Crolian regiments. If she was facing the same kind of odds ... my first priority had to be to help her. Moving forward, in the north, and occupying te...
Chapter 1 The international shipping line's smallest vessel, Sea Discovery, with 366 cabins, left Southampton on a 7-day mini-cruise at 8 am, gliding through a lingering mist in a busy harbour with fog-horns sounding mournfully, those conditions subduing the excitement of passengers a little. But the complimentary bottle of chilled Champagne in each cabin,...
Guilty x Creatures : Dark Elf Arc : Chapter 4 Chapter 4 : Late Evening Anton entered the dungeon and moved to stand directly in front of his prisoners. Neither one of the dark elves would raise their heads to actually look at him but by the increased tempo of their breathing, it was very clear that they were aware that he was there. He had also noticed th...
The next day was the day my sister's came from Europe. They both were studying abroad and they were gone for long periods of time with only a few phone calls to satisfy their longing for our parents. They're Liz, the eldest, and Allie, the second. I am the youngest. They haven't come since two summers ago, and this summer they said they would be able to co...
Chapter 7 The Colonel in Nachstadt Bowing to prevent the swooshing blades of the helicopter from decapitating him, the Colonel dashed stiffly across the field outside the former hunting lodge on the edge of Nachtstadt. A tall, slender handsome blond man in his mid thirties met him half way knowing not to try to assist the older man's difficult walk. They s...
"It's just a chemical, you dumb bitch." Jocasta wasn't sure why the words had suddenly popped into her head. She couldn't remember where she'd heard them, or when. She couldn't place the voice that had said them to her, even though she could hear it perfectly in her mind. He'd been angry, she could tell that much, but there was also something else in his vo...
"Hi Stranger!" It was Saturday midday. Six months after I had first met Jen. We were at my local supermarket doing the usual grocery shopping that normal couples do except we weren't a normal couple. We had never spoken about the status of our relationship so officially we were not going out yet we spent almost all our spare time together. She spent most we...
The Olsen 'family' Dairy farm had begun as a smallholding some two hundred years in the distant past. As time ground on most of the other local farms sold up to the ever growing big farming companies or vanished into housing development. The Olsen farm struggled on defiantly, slowly lagging further and further behind its competitors until the farm was only k...
Felicia lived in an Empire Suite in the Carlyle, the luxury hotel where Marilyn Monroe had had her tryst with JFK, thanks to some secret tunnels. Peter guessed knowing that was how some real estate agent had made a mint off Felicia Hardy. Being gently, but somewhat icily ushered in by the various concierges and door staff, Peter and Darcy made their way to...
************************************************* Copyright Oggbashan June 2018 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. ****************...