Chapter Four Emelina "They are Amity, Hepzibah, Lydia, Remember, and Tabitha." Emelina motioned toward the quintet of young women. Matt looked to a clearing that was free of trees and plagued with thriving, calf-high bullgrass, where he saw the women drifting about. All of them were dressed in the same sort of thin and transparent gossamer wrap Emelina wo...
The clash and clang of steel on steel rang through the forest, echoing off the trees and boulders all around. To anyone who would be watching they would see what looked like two blurs dancing around each other at unheard of speeds while sparks flew around them. The smaller one was just a bit faster than the mountain of a figure engaging the petite one, but t...
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Dear Readers, thank you for reading these stories thus far, this chapter took a while to appear and I should warn you it's a long one. However there were several things mentioned in previous chapters all of which I felt I needed to bring together in this chapter. I am mixing several mythologies and taking ideas from a variety of literary sources to create t...
*** A little of what's happening in both places now, at sea and on land. Something to note here; The creatures back at the keep are not human and they have a rather involved societal structure. I'm aware that there are readers who might not especially like the way that these things all have a varying degree of capability to go in both directions which depe...
Notes from the author: Hello reader. Welcome to part four of Ask Alice. In the first three installments I left the reader with a relatively complete tale. Part four got a little long so I'm breaking it up into two installments. Hopefully it's still a good read. The next half will be published as soon as possible. ***** Part One-Imperial Navy Space statio...
Meghan's POV I walked in to talk to the admissions people in the emergency room, leaving my contact information and a request to be updated by the attending when Mia's scans were done. I told her I was starved and missed lunch, so she told me of a local place I hadn't tried yet. As soon as I mentioned the name, Snake was down with it. We parked a block a...
She looked at me curiously over the top of a drink. We were sitting on the patio by the pool, late on a Friday afternoon. I was sweaty and tired from hours completing a complex Internet installation at her family's home. Behind us, speakers floated Mozart from an Internet radio station. It sounded very nice, but had taken a lot of work to put in place. "Y...
The Coalition president, Vladimir Zakhvatchikov excused himself to go to the bathroom, but found it difficult to concentrate on emptying his bladder at the thought of what was to come. Unexpectedly, Ludmila Mudak had landed back aboard the aircraft carrier Lenin with Volk and it seemed she had every intention of rekindling the passion they'd once shared. He...
***This chapter will need to be read a little slowly, since what happened in the past is presented from two POVs. One is by the man who it happened to, and the other is what Louhi learns. If it all gets to be a little too much, her explanation to him near the end ought to clear it up. I uh, ... hope. I always learn a hell of a lot when I write anything wi...