Dear reader, it is close as I sit here in bed typing on my laptop. You see my days are numbered and I have decided to show you a glimpse of the confessions a priest hears. Of course the names will be changed to protect the innocent but also, the events will be as close as I can remember after fifty years of sitting behind the partition inside the confessiona...
Chapter 14 Hawk's POV The whole way through the trial, I sat with bated breath. When I saw Daniel's sister arrive at the courtroom with my friend Jake, I released my breath. Hopefully, the truth would come out. I left the witness stand then went to talk to Jake. "Here she is." He said holding onto Ms. Talner's arm. I looked at the woman standing there, th...
It was time for Captain Stewart to go. Although not fully recovered, the doctors felt that being home would help speed it along. He had come a long way from when he first arrived. He had gained back most of his strength and he looked fit in his new uniform. Most of the swelling and bruising on his face and body had disappeared. There were some scars on the l...
As pissed off I am for being hidden away in a cave, frozen and covered in stone, I really can appreciate the timing of my 'unthawing'. Allow me to explain.... I was born around the year 900 A.D. to a rather unhappy gypsy. She had wanted power and my father had given her power with a catch, it would only last 9 months. I am the source of that power, literall...
It's almost February. The heavy snow has covered the main road from the village, leaving little space for the villagers to move from one place to another, let alone to travel to another village. It's been a brutal winter and the signs are that it is not over yet. I was preparing the wood for the last fire that day, because it was already getting cold inside...
She sat reading at the kitchen table, as she did every morning, waiting for the bread to finish baking in the oven. The lantern light flickered across the page as she started reading the next chapter drawing her attention back to reality. The sun had started rising without her realization. Angele jumped to her feet, startled so much time had passed already....
Isis sighed softly as her maids painted her nails, the sun was just peaking over the edge of the earth casting lovely paints of pink, yellow, blue, and orange across Heaven's expanse. Dressed in nothing except a thigh high lace shift, Isis inhaled the early morning scents as they drifted threw her balcony window, as always the wild foreign textures from the...
Synopsis: Before Eclipse, Aliens have lived on earth as humans for decades waiting for the moment to leading up to take it over -- The Eclipse. After Eclipse, Gaelen meets Kiowa, the first human allowed to attend college. Little does he know she is not Y'vori; and she doesn't know he is the King that will lead the final eradication of the humans from the pla...
Chapter 17: A Father's Secrets Isaac led Cyrus up two flights of stairs and another hallway before stopping at the last room on the right. He turned the handle and gently opened the door. He guided Cyrus inside and closed the door behind them. "Cyrus please be polite," was the only warning Isaac gave. Cyrus nodded at his father's words. Usually his surpri...
Valeria Sylvia was sitting on a stone in the garden of her home. A fountain burbled in the middle, with lily pads growing on the water, flowers cradled on them. The stones were set around the water, and Sylvia often went here to read the scrolls they'd been given by their tutor. The girl loved reading, unlike her siblings. She was the most clever of them all...