The App Trap
What mischief might a lonely man dare in the midnight confines of his private castle? Lit only by the pale blue glow of an oversize flat-panel television, Trevor Miller was about to test his own limits for sexual adventure within the sanctuary of the...
Partners in Crime
Later generations would name the waning years of the nineteenth century the_Gilded Age_. To Jin Ji, it was the _Grime Age_, the _Age of Inequity_, or his personal favorite, the _Age of Extremes,_the chiefest of which were the sharp socioeconomic...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 27 – The Trap
A light but persistent rain had settled in over River Keep early in the morning. Nearly everyone with the misfortune of being outside was soaked completely through to the skin of their pelts. Airy, standing outside on the battlements next to one of...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 26 – Wyn
Caring nothing for the fates of queens and empires but enjoying the rough and tumble of police work, Cat took advantage of the relative quiescence of the battle's aftermath to avoid Airy's strategy meetings and instead return to her work of enforcing...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 30 - Doom Hill
The night and the following four days were spent recuperating at Montethoytos. Airy raged silently at the delay, but her generals were correct to insist on rest for the troops and ensuring pacification of the vanquished foe. A portion of her army was...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 18 – Gifts and Geasa
**Olivia's room was unchanged from Camorra's visit. Respectfully, Airy bent to one knee at the base of the dais, but she met the Maker's malevolent gaze. Airy was, after all a sovereign in her own right. Olivia was unambiguously of some much loftier...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 20 - Betrayal
Airy vented her fury at Esseff. "That was too close, Maker damn it! This land is crawling with Wolves. We're climbing back into the hills." Esseff agreed with Airy that their discovery and capture had been a perilously close event, but he did not...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 19 Foxes
"Erased their memories? That's appalling." Airy tried to speak quietly and contain her shock, but his revelation was too much for her to bear. When Jak had emerged from the fog into the brightness of reflected sunlight, he found his companions waiting...
Delinquents
No longer a place of worship for nuns to practice their vows, Chapel of the Sacred Grace lost its last pious tenant when it was converted into an all-girls prep school and renamed Ivystone fifteen years ago. If asked, many of the young women in current...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 24 - River Keep
Vaunortheses fidgeted with manifest impatience. That his queen should have to wait for the attention of one of her own subjects was beyond impropriety; it was an unforgivable insult. Her duties as leader of the rapidly growing, first of its kind army...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 17 - The Maker
**"Why have you come here, Child of the Maker?" ** **The peculiar bird hovered just beyond the edge of the ice. How it maintained its position without flapping its wings was a mystery to the exhausted travelers. The beast was shaped like no bird or...
The Rikifur Chronicles: Chapter 16 - Ice
**It was high summer. Bright sunshine bathed the vast expanse of the northern ice cap, but it yielded no warmth to those who crouched on its surface below. Airy cursed through chattering teeth as she huddled between Jak and Camorra....