Plain-walker: Chapter 1
1 Snow drifted lazily down from the heavy grey, overcast sky. Flakes had been falling for the past week since Ruik finally crossed into the north. The expansive forest surrounding him--called the Direwood--was blanched icy-white, the trees all bare...
Track and Field: Part 20 - Almost Lover
Mindy I couldn't look Trace in the eye, even though I knew his great silver head was turned towards me as I drove. "Mindy," he sighed. "Why didn't you tell him?" After we'd left _Perks--_having delivering our news to Sasha--we retreated to the...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 11 - "Open Eyes"
11 Carson awoke at seven o'clock, which wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Thanks to his father, the young German shepherd had been getting up early since he was a pup--if he hadn't he would've missed Raymond before he left for work. Carson loved...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 10 - "Burdens"
10 Rhykard stood stock-still with his eyes closed tight, the training grounds all around him empty...as far as he could tell. It was simply a large glade in the heart of Sentinel Hall, a round swatch of coarse grass and dirt as big as a baseball field...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 9 - "Communing"
9 His chambers were dark when Dante opened his glowing, emerald eyes, blinking away the residual energy dotting his vision and letting out a calm breath. It was done. Being a cat, he could see fine through the shadows, Seth's still form laid across...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 8 - "Beats in the Darkness"
8 Sensations...there were none. No hot, no cold; no sound or light or sight. Feeling? He'd forgotten what that was, forgotten how to do it. He didn't know where he was. He didn't know _what_ he was, not anymore. Who? He could recall. He had a name; he...
LOS: "Turning Into You."
Rain cascaded cold and biting down before Axis as he tried to push himself as far beneath the skyscraper's overhang as he could. It was just one of many jutting portions that adorned the building he'd been scaling just an hour earlier, but - when the...
Track and Field: The Haunt - Part 4
Sasha _Oh, God, where did they go!? What the hell have I done!? What's going to happen!?_ "RED!? LEE!?" I bellowed, their names seeming to scrape my throat as I yelled with such force. "WHERE ARE YOU!?" This wasn't good. My worst nightmare had...
Track and Field: The Haunt - Part 3
Conall _What the hell?_ I thought as in awe I watched Lee traipse quickly off stage. That song - good God - I wish he would've told me about it sooner. I'd never seen that side of Lee: bare, open, passionate...in turmoil. He'd left the audience...
Track and Field: The Haunt - Part 1
13 "Ouch, Claire!" "Will you quit whining, you undead baby!" my sister said snarkily while dabbing around my bruised eye with powder makeup. "You're only making it worse." I grunted as each pat of that infernal powder-puff sent pain coursing into my...
Track and Field: Part 12 - Conall
Conall "Mindy!" I bellowed, doing my best to keep from yanking down the orange, party lights I'd just strung. They'd gotten wrapped around my antlers somehow, and now, if I moved in the slightest, a good four yards of the bastards were going to be on...
Track and Field: Part 7
"Sasha, please stop crying," my sister whined. Her eyes were beginning to tear up, too. "You know what'll happen, and I'd rather cut the sobbing out altogether than start myself." My reply was a wet sniff and a whimper. I couldn't help it; honestly I...