Please Stand By
It all started when the planes collided over the city. It was all over the news, the two jetliners crashing into a hailstorm of burning metal, sending streamers of charred remains through air like meteorites. I didn't think about it much at the time,...
The Lover
The Lover By R-Complex Copyright © R-Complex 2013 He couldn't wait for her to be completely naked, throwing her on the bed and ripping away the last vestiges of clothing on her body. The young vixen laughed and giggled as the wolf worked off what...
A New Night Ch.1 Collapse
Barbra ran down the dirt path with her lungs burning for air. "HELP!" she bellowed, but was answered back by the sighing wind in the trees lining the road. "SOMEONE HELP!" It was the last day of summer and the crisp autumn air was just beginning to...
A New Night Ch. 2 Off the Air
Judith Stone sat watching Tommy with a smile on her face, knowing that he was always up to something. That was what attracted her to him in the first place, his ability to think on his feet in bad situations. Today was no exception how he ushered...
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
Randy DeMarco was at the head of the SWAT van as it tore through the abandoned wrecks littering the streets of Houston when he spotted a group of people near the end of the road. Their drunken staggering was a dead giveaway that they weren't much on...
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...
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...
Comes the Dawn Ch. 3 Fall of the AstroDome
Gabe Martinez was suddenly awoke to the sound of gunfire. Not just any gunfire, but the heavy chatter of the .50 caliber machine gun that was hammering his skeleton as he opened his eyes. The sun was gone, replaced by the dark sky of night as screams...