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...
"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...
Claire and her friends looked through their hotel window at the old castle sitting at the top of a nearby hill. They were seriously considering a strange dare from the old lady managing the hotel. "So tell me again what the woman told you," Brooke said, "If we spend the night up there, we won't have to pay our hotel bill? It doesn't make any sense." Her f...
Lilly I entered the lab, head down, and made my way over to my assigned lab table. My partner was already there. "Lilly! How are you?" Jerry greeted me, grinning and waving flamboyantly. I grimaced. "I've been better." Jerry's smile instantly vanished. "What's wrong?" I sighed. No way in hell could I tell him about the demon. No pun intended. "My da...
"Ma'am, are you alright?" came a voice, and I stared at the two uniformed men who stood a few meters from me, wondering why they felt the need to shine their flashlights in my face. I looked at them through dazed eyes, and smiled through bloodied lips. Oh, not my blood, I assure you. I fed on a vagrant earlier, and discarded him in a nearby dumpster. "Oh, I...