Zhinv and Niulang. (Part four.) Nuilang, wandered through the town, overcome with grief, in the knowledge of not seeing his beloved wife for another year. People came up to Nuilang, to ask if he was alright, but he couldn't speak, for the tears running down his face, and as his heart broke, he made his way to the river, and stood there on the bridge, dete...
With the rising of the sun also came a dense morning fog, so visibility was not much better than before. The men arrived at a waterline of an inland shore. "You think these patterns in the sand might be the tracks Dong leaves behind?" Karl asked. "Shh. You hear that?" Jack interrupted. The sound of splashing came from off in the distance. "He's just ahead o...
There once was a young lady of twenty-one years whose hair was long, beautiful and golden brown and grew almost a meter a day. Her name was Ramona, a pretty country girl with a dainty manner, a sing-song voice and dark brown eyes. She lived with her father, a kindly but poor woodcutter, and her step-mother, a cranky and self-absorbed witch, in a cabin in th...
Alpha Chase Nygaard's POV Over Northern Minnesota Vic and Spider were awake for the last part of the flight to Duluth because no one could sleep through that kind of turbulence. The pilots had us buckled in and seats up as we passed over the strong winter storm. Wind gusts tossed the plane around, and we all just held on and waited. Finally, just before...
"Brace for it!" The great stone door rumbled and lifted open, massive hidden gears turning, the machinery creaking and straining as unseen monsters pulled it up and out of the way. I glanced up at Sandra, and she glanced back. I hoped she was as good an aim as we needed her to be. A dark bluish figure a foot or two taller than me darted through the door's...
Forked from Ovyah Discovered, True Believers! In Marvel Universe-254616, Peter Parker had spent some fifteen years as the Amazing Spider-Man. But, despite hundreds of victories and lives saved, his life lay in ruins -- his photojournalistic career was in ruins after he faked a photograph to help a man accused of a crime he didn't commit. His academic and ed...
~~Beatrice~~ She slipped on her boots and stepped out of her alcove, her little cave in a cave. "Going out?" Aaron said. "Yeah, just to hang with Julias's childe." "Right right, making friends with Invictus." She shrugged and gave the man a little push on the shoulder. "The Circle is small. Carthians and Invictus are huge. We're not at war with them you...
Copyright of Nanna Marker 2010. * Kokata was searching. He had probably carried the idea longer, but in the end it was Lei who had spoken the suggestion. So here he was, searching the forest as swiftly as his legs would move him. He needed to find a healer. He wasn't panicked. They didn't need one yet. There was still plenty time to find one. Kokata's bod...
*****Everyone in this story is over the age of 18****** The following is a work of fiction. Just a fantasy. *** My name is William Burke and I am 30 years old and I am a starting assistant in Hollywood. I had just gotten my first job a couple of days, I have been attached to a new movie project by Sony studios. The movie is Spider-Man Far From Home. So I...
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...