The rogue that some knew as Jon Chess slept fitfully but that was not the amazing part; that he was having the best dream he'd had in years was. Jon Chess had recently been tortured, which had included a shadow priestess rewiring some of his emotional responses in an attempt to make Chess homicidal when he encountered Ren'dorei. The shadow priestess had not...
Raising the Dead, in Spite of the Natural Order: A Cautionary Tale Chapter 15 Entirely possible that I oversold my confidence on the subject of my saving everyone from certain doom. I will own up to that. Not out loud or anything, and what they don't know won't hurt them. Right up until the point where it could possibly hurt them. But it'll be far too late...
I really welcomed moving into the condo after my divorce. The divorce put me through a lot of mental anguish and coming home at night and not ever having to worry about things like cutting grass or raking leaves was a welcome luxury in my life. It still is a welcome luxury three years after. The condominium complex I found has a swimming pool, tennis and bas...
The drama and the characters are purely fictional. :-: Part Two :-: This contract is hereby to exact the truth about the 25 bets that were made to a Marlene Stocker who won them fair and square from a Camille Brooks. These bets are to be collected as 20 simple orders and 5 compound orders given one a day each and every day regardless of time and/or place...
{Because the mall is a magical place at Christmastime.} "Hey, Elf!" His name, of course, wasn't really Elf, but he'd been working at the main court in the mall for the past three years as Santa's helper and after correcting hundreds, no, thousands of small children who insisted on calling him "Elf", he answered to just about anything. Besides, he did have...
Preordained. Just because it has already been woven does not mean that is how it will be. There is no sex in this story. The blade moved smoothly across his skin with no drag or pull, the sword shaving the hairs off his arm better than any razor. Satisfied with the blades sharpness he sheathed his sword. Having finished mending his battered armor as best...
I haven't always been like this. There was a time, as a younger woman, when I moved through the day without noticing everyone I encountered with the same eye for elements as I do now. Back then, a face was not a porthole to the inside world of men and women. The posture and carriage of a body did not reveal the food consumed, emotional baggage lugged, and th...
Chapter Twenty Earth - 3753 C.E. "I'd almost forgotten why we were here," admitted Paul when the holographic message arrived for him at the hotel in the heart of the Amazon Jungle where he'd been staying with Beatrice. "It's been such a long time since we heard anything about the mission." Professor Wasilewski's image flickered against the window through w...
NOTE: The following essay was sent to the author via OuijaMail, a new mobile app that promises to be the next Instagram. Its proprietary technology allows correspondence between contemporary authors and historical figures. The sender of this essay claims to be Samson, a legendary barbarian warrior from the Middle Ages. According to an unpublished essay by Jo...
Out of the frying pan into the fire, I finished a week of board meetings and luncheons only to look forward to a 3 day drive home. The first day passed uneventfully, long, but uneventfully. By the second day I was in Texas, which is not a bad state to drive through; I was going through the panhandle, so it was only a few hours. About halfway through I felt a...