Family Matters - Wednesday
**Family Matters** Wednesday – Passing by the glass doors facing the porch Sean glanced out across the back yard, toward the vast dark waters of the Saint Lawrence beyond. A lone form stood on the gazebo on the shore looking...
Black Fox, Black Flame (8) Final
"Oh, fuck." I said, retreating from the door when I saw, standing between the other two, the suited man from the park with his golden lion. "He's back, Flame!" I hissed as I retreated from the door and contemplated other ways out of the...
The Auditor - Act 1, Scene 1: A Rude Awakening
_Resource: R37.3122.a4 'Crackle'_ _So named due to the constant low level crackling noise the substance makes in the presence of carbon dioxide as it binds carbon and sheds unstable atomic clusters which then react with released oxygen. ...
Emancipation - 2
**Emancipation** **II** With his dark-skinned human shadow precisely ten paces behind him at all times Johan wandered the spinal access corridor aimlessly, admiring the healthy greenery and aquatics with...
Black Fox, Black Flame (5)
It was a human, tall and burly clad in fashionably expensive but clearly functional denim and leather street clothes designed for intimidation value but not hindering mobility when it came to dishing out damage. Behind him was a shorter, but...
Emancipation - 1
**Emancipation** ** ** “Harrier, Harrier, this is the heavy freighter _Commodore's Choice_, responding to your distress beacon. Do you copy?" The voice on the other end of the comm link sounded bored, likely...
Black Fox, Black Flame (6)
A gekkring cough of laughter brought my gaze up from the pan I was scrubbing to see Ebonflame sprawled on his side along the length of the sofa, remote trapped under one paw. It was not the show he was laughing at, however. He caught my...
Highest Sin, Deadliest Foe (1999 words)
Rapid steps, soft and stealthy but he could hear them all the same. Jon sidled further back into the decrepit old house, one of the few that remained in the old village long ago emptied by repeated raids of the Packs. Was it Him, Jon wondered,...
Do Dogs Have Souls?
Do dogs have souls? I heard this one day, standing outside the nave of a local church waiting for the rest of my family to emerge after services. A young boy asked his father, as they passed, "Dad, do dogs have souls?" Apparently a family pet had...
The Dragonslayer's Quest
The Dragonslayer's Quest The high mountain forest was lush and green, the day cool and bright. Puffy fair weather clouds dotted the sky like errant sheep. Through shadows and bright splashes of dappled sunlight rode a very curious...
Uneaten Prey (1991 words)
Odd creatures, the Eyxalos, and pretty damn dangerous. Naet sprawled on the stone outcrop a hundred or more feet above the war party passing below. Half man, if rather thin and frail looking men, and half deer they did not appear terribly...
WIP(1) - The Blind & The Cripple
WIP - The Blind & The Cripple “Oai, lady, we're here." The cabbie groused from the front seat of the beat up old skimmer. “Time t' git out." Ash snapped awake with a start, blinking at the...