A Chance of Showers - Part One
First in a series. I've been taking advantage of other author's generous work for years now, so I thought I'd contribute a little something I've been working on myself. I'll warn you up front that if you're looking for a quick bit of stroke...
Winter Help – Chapter Nine
Bedtime came early that night, for the next morning we'd have to get up an hour early in order to make it to church on time. Bubba's arm curled around me protectively, and for the first time I felt no hesitation about pulling it tighter around...
Winter Help – Chapter Eight
"I've already told you that I don't need a woman around here to be happy." He said finally, "I've got everything I need right now. But what I'm feeling..." he trailed off, knowing what he felt, but unable to put it into words. "When you came over that...
A Chance of Showers - Part Three
"Why don't you guys go take your showers now," Jake suggested to Ralph, Quinn and Dunny, "I think we've got things covered here for now, and we'll need someone to watch Kip while we get cleaned up." "Shouldn't we call an ambulance?" Quinn asked, Jake...
Winter Help – Chapter Seven
We were hot, we were sweaty, and we were both tired out as we broke for lunch that day. Being in the sun all morning had made the tops of Bubba's shoulders a bit sunburned even through his fur, and he radiated heat like a brick wall after sundown....
Exposure - Chapter Six
Chapter Six. "You still feel like coming over?" Dox said, uncertainly. "Sure," Jason said, unable to keep a small groan of pain from emerging as he pulled his shirt over his head, "why wouldn't I?" Dox didn't...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Ten
"Relax." "I should be telling you the same thing," Bo said, bluntly. "You look like shit." "I am...aware of that." The Kenzine wished that he could express his frustration, but to do so would have been counterproductive. Had his hair not been...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-four
Lucas went through his morning routine the same way he and Victus did on any other day, but going through the motions without the other man by his side was disconcerting. He knew the moves, he could perform the duties, but without having Victus there...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-four (and a half)
Sixteen hours spent riding between House Mal and the Kenzine monastery had given Victus plenty of time to think. He'd started his journey contemplating the possibility that Lucas MacKenzie would have been better off had he been left in the pits, but...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-five
"No, and that's final!" With that, Negin Rudex Mal slammed the door in Victus's face. It wasn't the first time he'd done something like that. It wasn't even the fiftieth time. Victus thought the man was taking a perverse pleasure in blatantly ignoring...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-One
"I'm worried about my boy." Dagen pulled a used paper napkin out of his pocket and wrung it in his hands, absentmindedly twisting it this way and that. Even though dead air was generally discouraged while on long-distance vid calls, he was glad that...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-Two
From the chair in his private office, Negin Mal glared down at his personal guards from the raised platform he'd had constructed behind the desk to enhance his psychological advantage. To Mal's consternation, Victus's air of cool detachment hadn't...