Thunder #16
The next three days leading to the weekend basically confirmed my fears that Gina's parents had been correct in discouraging her dreams of becoming a Grand Prix rider. There are some people, especially elves and leprechauns, who are natural born riders...
Cowed
Wendell Orman looked at his colleauge with frustration. "Damn it, Gunther, this could turn the company around." The blonde haired German researcher looked back through his round rimmed glasses. "Wendell, I agree. But we have not done adequate...
Making an Ass
Traffic had been light, and I was about fifteen minutes early when I rang the bell. "Oh, hello, Jeffrey," Carol said unenthusiastically when she answered the door. "David will be down in a minute. Won't you come in for some coffee?" "Sure," I...
Face of the Stranger 2: All the King's men
Like most of the small town butcher shops they'd seen, this one was a strange mix of cleanliness and gore. The tables and knives were spotless; the floor was spotlessly bleached in some areas and had lumps of intestine in another. "This one." The...
When the Tourists are Gone
The rain pounded down on the roof of the rented Dodge Neon, turning to misty steam as it pounded the hot purple paint. Norman Blackburn peered through the mud that the rain and dirt were making, the rented auto's windshield wipers smearing it in tidy...
Face of the Stranger, part 1
The students seemed more and more confused every year, Doctor Richard Eccelstone thought, as he watched a young man- clad in shiny loafers instead of the lace up hiking boots that Eccelstone had specified his students wear on the field expedition- jab...
Thunder #7
It was a gorgeous spring day- the kind that makes all your troubles vanish. The air was clean and clear, the sky had a few puffy white clouds, there was a gentle breeze, and it washed the earth of it's sorrow, bringing only the sweet smell of the new...
The story of Faeone (Thunder Prequel)
"I can't get this stupid thing to work," Connie Hill complained. The twelve year old flopped back in the tall chair she sat in, pushing back the twelve inch glass sphere she had been staring at. Gulthar the wizard tugged at his beard, trying to...
Incomplete Data
"Sequence thirty seven oh five." Bird Cievera read off the computer screen, fighting back a yawn as she glanced up at the large LCD screen that showed the electron microscope's output. "No changes. Is that the last one, Toby?" Tobias Bormann...
Two Wishes
_What is a body? Nothing but a collection of hydrocarbons and molecules, mostly water. Given enough time, science could create a body. But a soul? Never. That has to come from somewhere that is beyond our understanding._ "Blow out your candles and...
Thunder Spirit- Chapters 1-14
Thunder Spirit- the story of a Unicorn I was still finishing my breakfast when I heard the first riding students come in. It was kind of early, so I glanced down the barn's aisle way to see who it was. Carol Rutledge had come in- she was one that...
Black Guardian- Chapter 1
The Black Guardian _Kenosha, Wisconsin. May 11, 1978._ Roger Jeffries held the old woman's hand. For an eight year old, it was a hard concept to grasp- that his great grandmother was dying. She'd always lived in the small house across town, and...