Favors of the First Ones - Chapter 1
Jake Smith stood and looked out over the grey city from his vantage point at the window of his corner office on the twenty-seventh floor for what would be the last time ever. It was a dull, gloomy and cloudy day that perfectly matched his current...
Curiosity
Jake Smith had always been curious. Ever since he was just a boy, for as far back as he could remember, he wanted to know everything about everything. He'd always wondered why things were the way they were and not some other way. He wanted things to...
Favors of the First Ones - Chapter 5
The elevator that was carrying Jake and Srythryn under the floor of the cylinder towards the living section gently began to slow, and after a while it finally came to a stop and rose up again and the doors opened. Jake was nearly knocked over by the...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 7
As soon as we arrived back home the morning of Cole's first change, I'd shown Grace which rooms they would use and she'd gone straight to the bath and then to bed. Cole went to bed too, as did Elias and me. It had been an incredibly long night for...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 8
Cole sat at the kitchen table and looked at me expectantly while he waited for me to reveal the secrets of adulthood to him.I was standing at the counter and leaning back against it with my arms crossed and looking over at him, thinking about how best...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 9
I'd set the alarm in the basement to go off ten minutes before the time for Cole's change and we both jumped a little when it suddenly started beeping loudly at us.Cole looked at me a little nervously. He was not looking forward to experiencing the...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 6
I stayed in the woods for most of the night with Elias and Cole. The new wolf was testing not only his own limits, but those of Elias and me as well. Anytime Elias showed signs of getting tired from the game of chase and would come over to me to lay...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 5
I woke to Elias climbing into bed with me. The sun was only just rising and he was coming back home after spending most of the night in his four legged form. It had been nearly a month since our first meeting in the woods as man and wolf, and it was...
Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 4
I wanted to wait up for Elias after our first meeting as man and wolf. I was so looking forward to watching the videos with him and giving him his first real view of himself in that form. I was emotionally and physically exhausted though, and I knew...
The Hawthorne Accord - Chapter 10
Neville had slept the night in the ogre chieftain's pavilion snuggled up against his two new massive friends while laid out on a pile of soft pillows. It was the best night's sleep he'd had in a long time and he had wakened feeling fresh and ready to...
The Hawthorne Accord - Chapter 9
It was early evening and the sun was a few hours away from setting when the raft was allowed to bump up against the northern shore of the river at a point where the flow turned southward. It was widening a great deal now and slowing down as it spread...
The Hawthorne Accord - Chapter 8
Beowul and Stenwul had been running as fast as they could while following Neville's tracks and those of the soldiers that appeared to be following Neville's trail, but they were growing tired and it was taking them much longer than they would...