Comes the Dawn Ch. 1 Breakdown
The skies above Houston, Texas were just dead space. Not a plane crossed over the nearly silent city below as signs of a far worse fate now littered the streets in the pre-twilight. Martinez chewed on a butt as most of the cigarette was now ash as...
A New Night Epilogue
_"Dearest Christine_ _It's been a while since we spoke, but for you I have nothing left to say. You turned your back on me and left me when I needed you most, and even at that I still forgive you. In these beguiling times, I wanted to apologize for...
A New Night Ch. 8 Almost Normal
The convoy twisted through Willard heading south along the main road past the high school where a now dead Cheryl Copeland lay staring up at the sky with a bullet wound in the back of her head. She was among the many that were shot down in the attack...
A New Night Ch. 7 Ben's Story
Ben was running for his life. Everywhere in the darkness he could hear them howling and scrabbling after him as he ran through the woods at breakneck speed. The smell of the fire was deep in his sinuses as the branches tore at him from all sides; he...
Comes the Dawn Ch. 2 Inferno
The most impressive of those edifices was coming up soon, the astrodome complex. sprawling across several acres of land, the astrodome complex was easily one of the biggest refugee centers in south texas.
A New Night Ch. 6 WILLARD WELCOMES YOU
Barbara awoke in a culvert sometime after dawn as the warm shine was pouring on her tired and battered body. She was still hurting from all the night's ordeal and the evening before wasn't going to be an easy one to overcome. Willard was only 5 miles...
Not By Blood Part 2
John never knew a silence so defining as the few moments when he sat with his back to the door, and Grace waited patiently outside for an answer. He didn't know how to answer was the problem. That wasn't the kind of question he would have expected;...
The Fire Within
He put the horn to his lips and blew, the sound echoing through fjord to the very heavens themselves. It was his way of announce to the inhabitants that he had arrived. Above the long boat the gray sky hovered over the craggy cliffs, which themselves...
'Little Favors'
Kelly stood outside the lingerie shop, nervously glancing over to where the thongs were. Second thoughts about buying something 'sexier' than her usual kiddie flower printed panties replaced the confidence she'd had ten minutes before. Few people...
Comes the Dawn Ch. 3 Fall of the AstroDome
From one end the complex came an explosion so big he could feel the heat as it lit up the camp. helicopters were thundering away above him as he got out of the alley to the main thoroughfare and found himself neck deep in chaos.
A New Night Ch.5 Escape
Barbra pulled Ben too his feet as the Copeland girl made short work of her father, tearing out his throat and dropping him like a sack of potatoes against the wall. It was over even before he hit the ground, leaving the magnum out of reach as the...
Not By Blood
John's life was in what most of his ilk would call a 'transitional phase'- meaning he didn't have a job and was kicked out of his apartment. He knew life after collage wasn't going to be easy, much less fair, but it was being an absolute dick to him at...