The Elder God
# Chapter 6 I leaned back against the tree, rubbing the bridge of my nose and nursing one hell of a migraine. "Please tell me it wasn't you I was running from." He grinned. Unlike his roughed up appearance, his teeth were a perfect white....
Calling In the Big Guns
# Chapter 4 I bruised both shins and one foot before finding the door. The one time in the last hundred years I needed an 'EXIT' sign and there were none to be found. "Alice!" We were out in the hallway now, the light back to normal. I could...
A Young, Foolish, Wolf
# Chapter 2: A Young, Foolish, Wolf We'd gotten to the hospital just over four hours ago. I wasn't used to this. Every other time something like this had happened it had almost always been me under...
Father's Blessing
# Chapter 11: Father's Blessing There was an obvious change when we got to the edge of the city. The hunters faded into the woods around us like smoke in the night sky until only Amstys and Renald remained. I could still feel the eyes of the other...
Modern Love Walks Beside Me
# Chapter 7: Modern Love Walks Beside Me I'd dozed off for a few moments when I heard the door to the apartment click open. The sound of feet on the floor told me that those coming were friends. Wait... those? Forcing the last of the wool...
Another Meaning to 'A Shotgun Wedding'
# Chapter 11: Another Meaning to 'A Shotgun Wedding' I must have dozed off at some point. The sun was only just peeking over the horizon when next I woke. My mother was gone, but not far. I...
Getting Out While the Getting’s Good
# Chapter 13: Getting Out While the Getting's Good I woke up, the sun shining in my face just wouldn't go away, however much I swatted at it. It took me a moment to figure out where I was. How about that, I'd finally spent a night in my own bed. I...
Yellow Eyes Are The New Powdered Noses
# Chapter 17: Yellow Eyes are the New Powdered Noses The next morning came bright and clear. Johnathan woke early, but not as early as Manson and the maids. They already had breakfast prepared and ready when he stepped into the dinning room. ...
And We Shall Tell the World
# Chapter 5: And We Shall Tell the World It was only moments after Emma left that Johnathan felt the jaws of loneliness close around him. Watching her leave through the pouring rain, she disappeared quickly, swallowed up by the darkness. It...
Fire Branded Leather: New Boundaries
# Chapter 7: New Boundaries The conversation downhill from there. Storming out of Masterson's office, he ripped off his firehouse sweats. The shirt landed on his desk as he passed by, and the pants in the face of some unlucky firefighter....
Chicken Soup for the God's Soul
# Chapter 10 Maxwell wondered off a few moments later, muttering something under his breath. I couldn't make it out, but I doubted he was singing my praises. Ophois didn't stop growling until he was long out of sight around the construction...
To Say This Was Unexpected...
# Chapter 2: To Say This Was Unexpected... And at the foot of the long, gentle descent from the Lion's Gate bridge stood a lone figure waiting for us. For just a moment my heart leapt. I'd swear I...