Ragon woke quickly the following night. His hands pushed against the roof of the freezer, where he slept, forcing it open. As the frosty air cleared, he knew instantly that Bell was gone. He could no longer feel her heart beat; the house was silent. In a fury he rushed to the front door, blurring through the house, hoping he was wrong. "Fool," he said out...
In the pre-dawn hours a light streaks across the sky. Not from the sun. But, from a missile cruising like a jet across the heavens. Its trajectory imminent. The destruction inevitable. No noise to back it up. Almost as if God was spitting light on the First Day. Maybe he was. Below on the Cruise ship Beautiful Dreamer, Madigan Ridge comforted a devolved Sab...
(The characters are not my property. They belong to Mutant Enemy and the amazing Joss Whedon. This begins immediately after the last scene of "Not Fade Away".) * "Why do they always have to make speeches?" Angel asked himself, through the aches and pains that defined his world right now. In the movies they do that so that the good guy can get rescued at th...
Hostile Takeover: It had been a long day at the end of an even longer month at Infinicorp, a name which had initially riled the employees of the successful financial company. It had recently changed hands after a lengthy and mysterious legal battle; the last month had been a mad dash to prepare everything for their new masters. On top of that, no one knew wh...
Family Kyle had wildly mixed feelings when he saw his mom walking towards him. He kept his feelings to himself however and forced a big smile to welcome her back from the SpringWood Adult Mental Hospice. He had not seen her since he was child, yet he was glad to see she looked healthy and happy. “Hey Sara”, he grimaced, “How are you? Sara had spent the last...
The world is a strange place, full of wonders the likes of which we don’t even know of yet. This is a tale about some of those hidden wonders, locked away from the senses of society at large. This is a world where creatures like vampires, genies, demons, ghosts, and many more roam the Earth in secret, right under our noses. This could be a scary place to liv...
The sun rose over the Somali nation, once the crown jewel of the Horn of Africa, bathing the dry, arid landscape in its eerie light. As was her custom, Hafiza Elmi rose with the dawn. After making her Fajr prayer, the first prayer of the day, Hafiza began to handle her duties. Even though she was not yet a mother, and her husband Rahman Elmi was traveling fa...
October 31, Halloween night. It's the time when monsters, ghouls, and other dark creatures take mates. The mates of these creatures don't usually come willingly. I should know, my brother has taken a human mate already. My father took an elf. They expect me to do the same. But for some reason, I had my mother's virtue. Basically, you could say I actually had...
"Miss, are you alright?" came a deep, kind of raspy masculine voice, and I startled awake, and found myself in a decidedly unusual setting. I was lying on the pavement, and a tall, beefy older man in military fatigues stood over me, gun in hand. I blinked, and looked at him, a pale-skinned, ruddy-faced man with two days stubble. I was surprised to see appare...
Days went by and Ben stayed in his apartment while Emily took care of him. She did her best to try and cover up all the windows as he wasn't ready to deal with sunlight yet. She was also trying to figure out how he was going to feed when the time came because he would need to drink from a human his first time to complete his transformation. He had drank her...