Black Widow and The Tarantula Ten
Black Widow and the Tarantula Ten I loaded up my six-shooter, putting in the bullets one by one, knowing that the gun wasn't nearly big enough for what was coming. Jason cleared his throat, a clear sign of nervousness that I never liked. He was...
The Bombardiers
The Bombardiers There are often times in our lives when the world just throws us a bit of a curveball in an effort to get us to slow down, take things easy, and just let things happen. Sort of karma's way of saying "Stop this shit right now, you...
Horizons II
**Horizons II** 1 "Are you friend or family, sir?" "Friend," the gray wolf said. He was wearing tan khakis and a rum-colored t-shirt, the kind of color you would rather not see in a hospital. He was scratching at an itch on his left forearm; it...
Hoist The Colors
**Hoist The Colors** 1 The she-wolf that was eying him from across the tavern wore a gaudy red satin dress with a long trailing bustle, two golden hoops in her ears, a black chapeau, and a bluish glimmer in each eye. She was the woman you'd go to a...
Blue Earth
**Blue Earth: Chapter one** I At one time, Max had been too interested in other things to have ever bothered with the subject of heroin. He was too busy studying for high school exams and competing for top spot in the varsity baseball...
The Electric Eye
Whenever I look outside my window nowadays, I'm reminded of some lyrics from one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. I think it went something like "and so in the sky...shines the electric eye...soon the natural king...takes earth under his wing."...
My Home of Ice and Fire
**My Home of Ice and Fire** 1315 Seven hundred years ago... Though many of his men continued to grumble and bemoan the wall of white that enveloped and drove the heat out of their bodies, and cut at their faces like knives, and made their bones...
One Thousand Snakes
**One Thousand Snakes** I It always amazes me the elegance and blatant debauchery of fate and its incomprehensible machinations, the way it makes out our lives to be little more than chess pieces, to use that tired cliché. Fate, destiny, God,...
Let's Get Lucky
Let's Get Lucky Pros: an astute, intelligent man; willingly helps people when they are in need; keeps healthy on a regular basis; doesn't complain when things are too tough. Cons: a pernicious, self-obsessed wife-beater; chronic rapist; only helps...
Shadows Dance: Part I
**Shadows Dance** "No. No, this isn't right." But it was right, the evidence was staring Nathan in the face. The thin red fox read the letter again, hardly believing the typed Tahoma-style words. He hoped that reading the...
Gotta Love That Bomber
Gotta Love That Bomber It was the best standoff I had ever been a part of. Ten people were standing behind me with guns drawn, pointed at the heart of one little pus-bag who cringed in the corner of his bathroom, his rodent eyes wide with terror,...
Gifts
**Gifts** Wolf carefully unwrapped the white gauze encircling the top-left portion of his face, keeping a wary eye trained on the little bathroom mirror. It had already been a few weeks after the surgery, but he had kept the bandage on,...