It Takes A Child
Another slow July day began at 11:53 A.M., GMT offset -6, as Adam rolled out of bed with a muzzy groan. He'd been popping in and out of a lazy, prolonged dream for the past two hours and grabbed a few precious threads of it before the covers finally...
Arid
The relentless wind drove grit and ice under thick pewter-colored fur, aggravating the skin beneath. Hunger was equally ruthless gnawing away from within. The grey cat squinted as it crouched in the scant protection of a dwarfed and twisted pine, the...
The Mongrel, part II
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi --- The doors of the city opened before them like the lid of a coffin revealing the rotting corpse within. Two figures waited in line, shuffling slowly one weary half-footstep at a...
Perilous Jaunt Chapter 2
**Chapter 2** **Peter** ** ** The smell of fire woke me up. I snapped my eyes open, afraid that the inn I had been staying at had somehow been burning down with me inside of it. But, when I opened my eyelids, sunlight beamed down on me and stung...
Dragon Shower Demise
"What the hell!?!" _Shit_, I thought, my heart stuttering as I spun around violently, tail smashing through the cabinetry in the bathroom and leaving a large gash in the wall. Slack-jawed, my husband couldn't help but stare at me, at an utter loss...
The Promise 3 - To Her Friend
The shadow fled from the mountains, hurtling down the cliffside at a violent pace with a whispering shade. The vile blizzard ripped through his cloak of silver, his feet never touching the ground as he skimmed over the ice and soon touched upon...
Dystopia, A Fallout Story.
Part 1 ...
7) The Dragonborn
My name is Chamelion. I am... Dragonborn? The word still sounded strange to me....
Being Red- Chapter 8
The FBI task force begins making their way through the streets of Vitraan, going from street to street on their way to where they know the Underground's base is located. The people of Vitraan watch them going, tapping their fingers along their thighs...
A Battle To Be Sung.
Fires crackling about the field, corpses strewn all over, swords and shields and all sorts of weapons scattered and stuck in dead bodies. One man stood as he pulled his falchion blade out of the fresh corpse of an opponent, blood spurting with the...
One Memorable Journey Pg.5
Just after the cheetah asked nobody had time to answer as something started pinging everyone's personal radars. "Hostile coming in fast!" Patrick called out as he turned to face the incoming threat before getting immediately thrown meters back, a...
Forever Lost 1 - The Banished Son
**_THE SCRIPTURES OF ODDCLAW_** **Nine-and-Two: Forever Lost** _"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."_ _Frank A. Clark_ The mountains had been his greatest struggle. The jagged western peaks of insiduous...