Shady Impressions: Shady Impressions: Villains, Violence, and Various Errands #4
**Chapter 15** "Not a word of what happened in that forest is to be mentioned to the master, alright Dax?" Russo demanded of the wolf as soon as they used the funds so generously provided by the mimic to buy as much salt, sugar, pepper, and cinnamon...
The Mook Maker, Chapter 19: Cycle of Violence
I knew I wouldn't be able to make progress quickly. Realistically, I wasn't able to, but it still upset me just the same. Learning any language was always a long, tedious process that could take months, possibly years. It...
Shady Impressions: Shady Impressions: Villains, Violence, and Various Errands #1
**Chapter**** 12** ** ** The hustle and bustle of people moving about in town, the chirping of birds, the frantic calls for help in catching the dastard who set some guy's hat on fire. None of these things were enough to rouse Jem or Russo from their...
Shady Impressions: Shady Impressions: Villains, Violence, and Various Errands #3
**Chapter 14** Streams of sunshine poured through a window and danced across Russo's face as he lay in bed. His eyes flittered open from the sun's advances. The day was young and it looked to be a promising and beautiful fall day full of whimsy and...
Shady Impressions: Shady Impressions: Villains, Violence, and Various Errands #2
**Chapter 13** The black and orange armored one slowly treaded down the path that Russo and Jem had traveled days before, his heavy boots leaving noticeable impressions in the earth. The sun had been shining brightly here in this part of the...
Shady Impressions: Shady Impressions: Villains, Violence, and Various Errands #5
**Chapter 16** The collie strained his eyes in the fading light and could see the faint inky stains of dried blood on the wagon's wreckage. Compounding that was the fact that the cargo the wagon was carrying, a shipment of food, tobacco, and gold...
Werewolf Tale II - Chapter 20 - Effective Violence
Saturday October 22nd, 2011 Moon Phase - Waning Crescent The warmth in Alex's skin vanished at the sight, and his heartrate shot up too. He lowered himself into a stalking gait in turn, setting his shoes down softly with each step around the back,...
Brave new world prologue: seeds of destruction
Brave new world Prologue: seeds of destruction The peace treaties that officially brought ww1 to a bitter end contained many of the seeds of a larger conflict that raged from 1939-45. Germany lost its great empire, had east Prussia cut off by...
Chapter VI, Wolves & Jackals
Chapter VI, Wolves & Jackals _By far I found that this was the most difficult chapter to write, I wanted to develop both characters in this chapter well without making them a simple stock character, I turned to Robert E. Howard for inspiration...
A Warm Bed Chapter 1
Chapter 1 -- Noctem (August 17th) It was late, late enough that most places -- those that weren't night spots or open 24 hours a day -- were closed, and a young fox, less than 30 years old, walked calmly through a downtown street. He was well...
The Wandering Shadow: Chapter Fifteen
15 Sargent Mirza Alim stood outside Cairo's M.E.L.D. precinct, watching the last rays of the setting sun. It was symbolic to him, in a way. The light was fading from the world and so too was a darkness falling upon the city. It touched him--chilled him...
Snapshot Shards
Rain fell on a damp park, in a dreary day as the clouds hung over everything, refusing to leave as they hung in the sky and continued to bluster. The park was quiet in these late hours of the day, with little in the way of people coming out to walk its...