Chapter One Hundred Thirty-One: Separation Anxiety We left Denerim a scant few days later. We'd managed to avoid Eamon -- who was apparently accompanying Connor to Kinloch Hold -- altogether, and saw Kallian only briefly, between her duties as Bann of the Alienage. Cailan had 'people' looking into who would have attacked Anora's ship, as did Leliana, though...
Seven The envelope was laying on her desk at work. No return address, which was kind of odd. Looking around to make sure none of her nosy neighbors were snooping a look, she opened it up. There was a sealed card, and a sleeved DVD. The disc was a recordable one, obviously home made. There was no label on it, no markings to indicate what it contained. The n...
I love my father, and my four brothers. My mom left my father when I was five and promptly forgot she had children. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. She'd come to visit us, especially on our birthdays, but little by little, we would receive presents in the mail, then cards full of money. By the time I was sixteen, she stopped sending the cards and we h...
There he goes again kidding with me about my Catholic school up bring and the "Victorian" way I deal and talk about things. But he's wrong! He just doesn't know me that well. He doesn't know how his kidding makes me feel. It's like I want to prove to him that he's wrong. God since I got married 7 months ago I love sex. It seems I can't get enough. I'm making...
It's easier than you might think to live your life just going through the motions. I don't know exactly when it happened to me, but I do know that one day about three months ago I woke up to that fact. Here I was, in my early 50's, divorced and bored to death with my job. Bored to death with life in general . . . especially my social life, which was virtuall...
The Ahlissan Chronicles ~ Novella 3 ~ The Dread Prophecy ~ 1 ~ The Open Door The Kingdom of Ahlissa, the capital city of Prymp (477 CY) Prymp, a bustling port city of 23,000 people and the capital city of the Kingdom of Ahlissa, is a large and bustling center of trade for the young kingdom. Built on a natural harbor off of Relmor Bay it receives trade...
Helios' midday sun shone with an oppressive heat across Daleford, as it cooked the inhabitants into a lazy stupor. The Baron's guards had discarded their armour, elderly folk squabbled for troughs to bathe in and priest prayed to Ull for a cooler respite. Cole was no exception, his bovine ears flapped to try to circulate a breeze as he dragged his hooves and...
Something was up. If Jo Jo was coming all the way to Northside Avenue, something was up. It was a twenty-five mile drive. Estimating his time of arrival was at least as hard as picking a roulette number--straight up. Ellis was in the middle of his second game of pool. He had to do something; he couldn't just sit. The break was decent. The One ball was almo...
The rain hammered down relentlessly. Cold, wet, and feeling utterly miserable, Shona trudged dejectedly down the path to where the minibus would, hopefully, be waiting. Once again, she wished that she'd chosen to study home economics, or history, or even Latin; anything that didn't involve her being soaked on the side of a freezing mountain in the middle of...
They reached an outcropping of rock that formed a rough, broad diving board into another pool of water. "We will have to swim in the dark," he said in grim tones. "Then we'll have to swim through a tunnel that may just push our limits for holding breath. Damn." "But we have never managed to do it in the dark," Cocoy deadpanned. "How will we ever do this now...