The constant roar of the cannons had the men pulling as hard as they could to battle speed. The guns of the Justice were battering down the walls of Knock, as shot after shot of solid iron kept crumbling the blocks apart, while other shot burst into flames when it hit. The birlinns kept racing towards it, the men readying arrows and lighting a fire in a stee...
Before I married, I had become accustomed to unwinding from the stress of teaching high school English by having two or three stiff mixed drinks, like Canadian Club and ginger ale. I was feeling depressed, not realizing that alcohol, in such quantities, is a depressant. My doctor prescribed me an antidepressant and a sedative to help me sleep. Later, another...
Everything was a blur. Vague shapes came and went, colours smeared into one another and voices echoed nonsensically. Only one thing was clear to her dulled consciousness; pleasure. A pure, unending bliss that ebbed and flowed like tidal waves, pulling her under, refusing to let her surface beyond the sea of euphoria. Even as the darkness enveloped her, she c...
I sit on the bus like a frighten animal. Outside the cold air licks the windows and condenses my breath into fog against them. The butterflies in my stomach are fluttering so fast that they must be trying to kill one another. Surely I'm stupid, nothing about my plan bears any intelligence, yet I can't get myself to pull the cord and hop off the bus to go hom...
The average snow flake falls at 1.7 meters per second. Around Aiden, the crystals slowly fell. He wondered if they were as lonely as he was, a singularity surrounded by millions and millions yet so completely alone. Pain tightened his chest, this pang fiercer than the last. Let me out! The words echoed in his head like a wave of fire ants as the fiery bi...
"When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love." - Martin Luther King The older of the two men adjusted his cuff links as he sat and waited for the other to pour him a whisky and soda. He accepted the glass a...
The day had finally arrived. Kaylanna was so nervous that she was shaking as Reena, Anaia, her handmaidens and her maids helped her to prepare for the handfasting. The sun had yet to rise above the horizon yet Kaylanna could feel the energies that thrummed through the castle like vibrations on the string of a lute. She and Tyreon would wed as the sun rose in...
If you've enjoyed the story, please drop a comment or two and I'll take it as an indication that people want the story to continue. Cheers! ___________________________ Angela looked at the stoic man who stood in front of her. Genzo was tall for a Japanese man, about 6'2'', and his short black hair was impeccably spiked in a cavalier messy style. He was als...
It was the late 70s. I was in college and not old enough to drink legally, but looked old enough so that my ID was rarely checked. I worked as a cook in a steak house and my asshole manager, Newman, stalked into the kitchen after closing time and barked "There is some cunt asking about you in the bar. The only reason I didn't throw her out is because she is...
If you start me up I’ll never stop. Yeah, I know what song that comes from. And it’s kind of appropriate that my story starts this way. I don’t remember what year it was. The world was coming apart at the seams and my family held the hem ripper. For me, rock and roll was the answer to an unposed question. I was a 14-year-old hooligan hell-raiser with a sec...