Isolation-Excerpt 20-Kojak Auqifier
It took a couple of days for my ankle to heal up, but that wasn't to say that I was just sitting around. I spent most of my time helping Sarah and Tyler around the lounge and discussing how we would attack the tower with Martin in control of security....
Isolation-Excerpt 19-Breathing Room
The drive back to Biosphere was miserable on account of the heat, the fussy V8 and my screwed up ankle. It was nearly impossible for me to clutch the car with my right foot and my left ankle hurt too much to even try. I couldn't brake and downshift, or...
Isolation-Excerpt 18-Stench
"I need to find the generator that powers the labs", I said, "can you access the facility schematics and find out where it is?" "Not from here", Magellan said, "there's a beefy EMP barrier blocking my signal, we have to move inside." I sighed and...
Isolation-Excerpt 17-Asphalt
Even at 100 miles an hour I could feel how much the car was having to fight to pull itself through the heat. The air was so humid that I was leaving a vapor trail and there was steam coming off the black tar of the road. The ride itself was rather...
Pandemic- Day 47 12:04 PM 1/8/2023-Chapter 17-Engine Swap-Day 1
When I woke up the next morning, Raf was still under and I could hear the sounds of Abbie's tractor outside, my guess was that she was moving cars or bodies. I didn't want to wake Raf or Jericho up so I slid off my air mattress, pulled on my old, oil...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 5-Fresh Start
27 Years later Tacoma Dragon Preserve Southern Colorado Tyro's POV Sozenn crashed to the ground, red in cheeks and panting as I pined him and held him under my weight. "Looks like I win again Sozenn",I said with a prideful smirk. "Yeah...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 4-To New Beginings
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Complex Time:2200 Hours Task Force: Raven Hudson's POV Johns words to Emelia tugged on my heart strings. "Marines don't die",he said with his last breath. John was dead,and there was no getting around it. I wanted to...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 3-Final Moments
I don't know how long I was out,but when I woke,I was laying in a hospital bed. My vision was blurry and my hearing was noting more than a quiet, distant ring. I was covered from my neck down in bandages and could tell I was missing limbs. Tubes and...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 2-Genesis
The fly upriver took about a minute and a half. I was sitting on the edge of the chopper with my 48 primed and ready. Emelia was gliding beside us and Frank and Issac were beside me. "Coming on the convoy now",Hudson said. I looked out the side...
A Dragon's Tale-Chapter 1-In The Begining
My mind was ringing, everything around me was dim, silent. My head was pounding as if someone had bashed me with a steel club. Due to my immense battlefield experience, I could tell I had sustained a Grade 2 concussion, less serious than a grade three,...
Pandemic-Day 46 2:03 AM-1/7/2023-Chapter 16-Help
The lights of the rig were shining into a small town with houses that were boarded up on either side of the road. Unlike the rest of the towns I'd seen, this one was neat and clean. Rubble had been cleaned up from the street, trash cans had been...
Isolation-Excerpt 16-Hetawave
When Sarah and I came back to the lounge, she showed Jacob and Tyler the few pages of data that she had printed out. They had similar reactions to it that she did. "Bastard is up to something", Jacob said flipping through the data. "But what?",...