Chronicles of Nahia - Prologue & Part 1
_Prologue_ _ _ _ _ Our story begins, as many do, at the beginning. Not the beginning of the tale, though, a particular snapshot of a protagonist's life, briefly contextualised and neatly packaged. No. Our story begins at _the beginning._ Of it all....
Bond of Brothers - Part 3
After breakfast - and after all three stags had the chance to cool off and calm down a little, the time came to head across town to the bike shop, to get more inner tubes and a new tyre for Dieter. Stillwater Cove was a small enough town that virtually...
Bond of Brothers - Part 2
"Aw fuck!" Dieter exclaimed, squeezing his bicycle's brake levers and squealing awkwardly to a stop by the side of the road. "Dude, really? Is that your favourite word now or something?" Kristian pedaled on a few more yard, before making a slow lazy...
Bond of Brothers - Part 1
Steady, soaking rain fell throughout the evening across the small coastal town of Stillwater Cove, muffling the world with its monotonous hiss and turning everything grey as dusk fell behind a dense blanket of cloud. For two boys living in a little...
Bond of Brothers - Part 6
"Hello, lads." Dieter and Kristian couldn't do much more than stare for a few long moments at the man who was - biologically at least - their father. There was no fanfare, no waxing lyrical about how good it was to finally meet, just a burning stare....
Jack Frost - Part 3
Do you ever dream about people you don't see any more? I sure do. Back then, when I was eleven, I used to dream about Grandma and Grandpa a lot. They're Mom's parents, so they're donkeys like she is. Compared to my Dad that makes them... stocky, I...
Chronicles of Nahia - Part 2
_Part 2_ _1380AD_ Dagmar was hiding. The little dragon girl held a hand over her mouth to stifle her excitable laughter as she watched her father "search" for her, all over the farm. He knew exactly where she'd be hiding - beneath the oxcart,...
Bond of Brothers - Part 4
A dense mist blanketed most of Stillwater Cove, muffling any sounds and enveloping the little town in an almost otherworldly silence. Seven in the morning. It was still two weeks until the winter solstice, but a thick snow already carpeted the hills to...
Bond of Brothers - Part 5
The sun slowly sank into a haze of smog, the light turning the foetid sky a sickly orange and glinting dully from office towers and countless cars on the freeways. Deep in the bowels of the city, amidst the din of sirens and the roar of traffic, a lone...
Sins of the Flesh - Chapter 1
**Sins of the Flesh** ** ** **Chapter 1** ** ** Vyncent Elganth took a measured sip of water from his bidon, and tucked it back into the bottle cage of his bike. He'd been out riding for two hours already, and could feel his energy beginning to...
Sins of the Flesh - Chapter 2
**Sins of the Flesh** **Chapter 2** The days dragged with agonising slowness for the two weeks after Vynce's circumcision surgery. He was in a cycle of sleeping, eating, showering when he remembered and really not a whole lot else. He kept...
Sins of the Flesh - Chapter 4
Vynce had never got home from the beach in such a short time as he did with Sarah on that morning. The dragoness had not put her shorts back on over her bikini, nor had she made any attempt to disguise the incredible cleft that was visible in the...