The Philadelphia Experiment
Redundancy How can this sort of thing even happen? Twelve days being employed at the docks and already Narsassus has been "made redundant" as they like to tell him. Right now he is languishing in a room that he can ill afford to pay for. He looks...
Exile - Chapter 3: Her Story
"Like you, I grew up in this city." Jessica said, with a distant look in her eyes. "But there's a key difference. You see, I was born into a poor family. Used to live in an old apartment building, kind of like the one you described. I was able to go...
Kade
_Nucirk_ _City__, Year 2115._ For the first time in a long time, Kade Creed found himself hesitating. Something had been wrong since he had gotten that call early in the morning, his boss's voice still echoing in his head. _"My office, first thing...
The Fall: Prologue
The night was a bitter one, with a wind off the mountains that froze to the bone. It whistled round the old barn, shaking the odd assortment of palings that masqueraded as walls, dislodging the occasional fragment of ice to clatter to the hard earth...
Saint Francis File 2 : Billy and Caroline Clemons
Dr. Jennifer "Jen" Lewis began her Wednesday morning at the Saint Francis Human and Animal Psychology Center with a small coffee and a stack of papers. She smiled looking over her itinerary for her new patients of the day. She finished her morning...
The Voice Inside
"Mary, put the scan up on screen." The screen blinked for a moment as the computer digested my command, a slightly longer delay than I was accustomed to. I frowned, wondering if there was some new bug in the station computer, but the blinking stopped...
The Bridge Of Cologne prt. 2
Vandal trudged on, helping any of his Brothers and Sisters to their feet, handing them their weapons and urging them to fall back to the city, while he questioned them where his love was. Many had pointed him farther onto the bridge. Slowly he made...
Brothers; or, A Tail of Life and Love in a Glass House (Part 2/6)
The inconsequential hamlet of Sechanall's Grove was a cheery and relatively secure place, nevertheless rife with secrets and interpersonal intrigue. It wasn't small in the sense of its size, at least; the riverside settlement was heavily forested with...
Chapter IV: The Oasis
Chapter Four: The Oasis "How long have we been in the desert?" Matthew said as he trudged through the desert; his fur was started to dry out and split; his skin underneath burning and peeling. He looked at Basil and it seemed to shark was even being...
Chapter III: The Wall and the Cave
Chapter Three: The Wall and the Cave "Wow, I've never seen the wall before; I had no idea it was so large." Matthew said a sheer glow of horror but amazement and awe entering his eyes. Basil looked at him, and he nodded. "Ok, we need to scale this one...
Chapter II: Rifts Outside of Us, Part Two
Chapter Two: Rifts Outside of Us, Part Two "Well then Ingram; like the name not like you had chosen that before; been a while since the four of us have fought; how's Bill by the way?" Basil said smiling as he saw the Dragon Komodo stepping out of his...
Chapter I: Rifts Inside of Us, Part One
Chapter One: Rifts Inside Us, Part One "So let me tell you my day was going fine, in fact it was going pretty well but we'll need a flashback to convey that kind of information." Yelling from within his cell, Matthew was having a bit of a what he...