Author's Note: Friendly reminder. I don't speak Japanese ... or Romanian. *** Ana's blood chilled in her veins. Within a second, many different thoughts jumbled in her mind. A small but cozy apartment. A stove with only two burners. Shoes left in a genkan. A teenage girl's legs with a pair of long, baggy socks. Cheezy pop music blasting from a CD pla...
Stefan: When I saw him lead her upstairs and then proceed to kiss her, I really wanted to take his head off, but the worse part was that she let him. I've never felt betrayed by anyone in my life but in that moment I felt like she'd ripped my heart out and handed it back to me. Feeling the tears in my own heart, I disappeared from the house and began to wal...
A Bestiary of Monster Girls Bestiarum Monstrarum Feminarum Translator's Introduction Bestiarum Monstrarum Feminarum was written in 1243 by Arminius Wilhelm Otto Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Maximilian Melchior Leopold Wilhelm von Ravensberg, known to history as Herman the German. A Generalprokurator of the Teutonic Knights, he wrote his magnum opus as a warning...
Here I am, it's been over a century, but here I am. I'm going out to a club, a social gathering, merely and simply for fun. I am going there without the need or duty of protecting someone, some sort of territorial dispute, or cloak and dagger deal. No, pure fun is tonight's agenda. After I shower I head towards my closet. I walk naked all the time in my hous...
Ted Smith checked the sun shining down from directly overhead before stepping into the shadows of the old building. He paused inside the room, letting his eyes adjust to the gloom. Rays of light came through holes in windows and walls. Ted picked the stairway out of the darkness. He reached around and drew his sword from the sheath on his back. He held the s...
Detective Sarah Hauser of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department sighed deeply as she watched the medical tech zip up the body bag. There goes another one, she thought grimly. The body belonged to Claire Adewale, a Nigerian-born and Oxford-educated businesswoman working for Excelsior Enterprises here in Gauteng. Just like all the others, Adewale's b...
I've been walking this earth for nearly three-thousand years now; it has been at times a lonely, lonely existence. Before you roll your eyes and shake your head, no this isn't another vampire legend. My friends this is the true beginning of existence for our kind. The vampire lore that is whispered in all corners of the world and seems to be held today as a...
Please take a moment of your time to praise or criticize my work. Both are welcome, honest injun. ***** Alexandra Tannenbaum was so excited about her upcoming wedding that she could barely contain herself. There was so much to do to make sure that the arrangements for the upcoming ceremony were complete. Her bridesmaids' outfits had to be properly laid out...
A/N: Co-authored with Christine Thessen Chapter 1 -- First Taste She ran through the dark forests not looking back only forward her long crimson hair flowing like blood behind her, her crimson eyes looked around in fear as she ran not caring where her legs took her just to what she felt was safety. He smelt the rich scent of fresh blood on the air and loo...
Walking through the Loblaw's located in Barrhaven, I smiled to myself as I got stared at by the legions of middle-aged White folks, and the few Asians and Latinos I saw among them. Barrhaven is arguably the City of Ottawa's most affluent suburb, and the locals tend to be more uppity and annoying than most. Apparently, they're not used to seeing tall, well-dr...