Halloween, that special time of the year where people dress up in costumes to get candy, or to look sexy. The town of Gigglesworth is like any little town in the world, besides the embarrassing name, and like everywhere else, they celebrate Halloween. However, this town has a strange history on this specific day. A century ago, the town's founder used to kid...
I feel the desert winds blow across my face as I scan the sea of dunes. The sun overhead has risen to its zenith, and the land burns under its glare. I subtly adjust my hood to give my face more protection in the shadows. I turn away from the railing and look across the deck once more. This ship, the Golden Wind, has been my home for the last six years. I f...
Three days ago: The day started out like any other day in the remote town of Haven Cliff with the residents going on with their everyday lives. This was until the early evening when Jessica Kraft asked her boyfriend James to join her in a life dedicated to witchcraft. James a devout Christian said that witchcraft was a sin and he would not join Jessica in th...
There are times in life when it really pays to be what I am. Sociopath. Psychopath. Menace. Rogue. I've been called many things. I prefer to think of myself as a Free Spirit. Roger Gerry is the name. I am a police officer in the small town of Drake, Iowa. Just a tall, average-looking Black man trying to make a living. It sucks out here sometimes but hey, it'...
Post Script 4 - Notes on the life and goals of Vladim Dukov Vladim Dukov as a political leader US foreign policy analysts, journalists, and political commentators usually described Prime Minister Vladim Dukov as a cerebral and complex political figure, a leader whose motives for doing things were not always clear. He did not operate from any recognizable...
The Man at The Lake Lisa Bassett never thought she'd like living the country so much. She had always been a city girl from upstate who'd never lived in such places. Things like camping out in the mountains were still new and exotic concepts to her. The people that lived out there rode horses right along the narrow roads, so that Lisa and her husband sometim...
They called it Springdale Peak, a gated community far from civilization deep in the countryside. Springdale had a unique set of rules for anyone to move in, as stated in their official charter: 1.) All residents need to be between the ages of 18 to 55. This includes children in families. 2.) All residents need to be in peak mental and physical health and mu...
September, The start of the last days any of the senior class of Amorous High School will have within the walls of the last bits of their education here. Many students wouldn't go onto college after finishing high school; they would go straight into the work force or the military because that's just the kind of town this was. A lot of people were a part of t...
This scene is set in black and white. It is not darkened unnecessarily, nor are there the shadows and clouds of a storybook forbodance. Instead the day is bright and the lining, crisp, a scene accented only by the stray strands of sunlight filtering through a rustle of leaves. The outstretched fingertips of an early winter comb through the treetops as a slen...
The town looked amazing, as it always did when Ina planned a wedding. The entire town was in the center, waiting for the bride to walk down the aisle. The bride in question was in Elunara's house, having a major panic attack. "Oh Gods, why did I agree to this? I'm going to trip and bust my face and then I'll have to get married with a bloody face." Elun...