Modern Love Walks Beside Me
# Chapter 7: Modern Love Walks Beside Me I'd dozed off for a few moments when I heard the door to the apartment click open. The sound of feet on the floor told me that those coming were friends. Wait... those? Forcing the last of the wool...
Another Meaning to 'A Shotgun Wedding'
# Chapter 11: Another Meaning to 'A Shotgun Wedding' I must have dozed off at some point. The sun was only just peeking over the horizon when next I woke. My mother was gone, but not far. I...
Getting Out While the Getting’s Good
# Chapter 13: Getting Out While the Getting's Good I woke up, the sun shining in my face just wouldn't go away, however much I swatted at it. It took me a moment to figure out where I was. How about that, I'd finally spent a night in my own bed. I...
Yellow Eyes Are The New Powdered Noses
# Chapter 17: Yellow Eyes are the New Powdered Noses The next morning came bright and clear. Johnathan woke early, but not as early as Manson and the maids. They already had breakfast prepared and ready when he stepped into the dinning room. ...
And We Shall Tell the World
# Chapter 5: And We Shall Tell the World It was only moments after Emma left that Johnathan felt the jaws of loneliness close around him. Watching her leave through the pouring rain, she disappeared quickly, swallowed up by the darkness. It...
Chicken Soup for the God's Soul
# Chapter 10 Maxwell wondered off a few moments later, muttering something under his breath. I couldn't make it out, but I doubted he was singing my praises. Ophois didn't stop growling until he was long out of sight around the construction...
To Say This Was Unexpected...
# Chapter 2: To Say This Was Unexpected... And at the foot of the long, gentle descent from the Lion's Gate bridge stood a lone figure waiting for us. For just a moment my heart leapt. I'd swear I...
Trying To Hard
# Chapter 3: Trying To Hard It's amazing how quick news travels, especially when it's bad. You'd think it would take a little while for folks to find out that English is dead, but by the time I got back...
A New Breed of Cop
# Chapter 3: A New Breed of Cop The next morning was, also, quieter than I would have liked it. It wasn't that a dark cloud had fallen upon us, but simply that neither knew what to say. ...
How to Become a God in One Easy Step
# Chapter 7 Seth reached to a switch beside him a moment later, banishing the darkness from the room as the overhead lights came on. I glanced back towards the old man. He had looked aged and worn before, but now, in the light, he was little...
An Animal Passion
# Chapter 11: An Animal Passion Waking the next morning, Johnathan stretched and let out a yawn that would have dislocated the jaw of a lesser being. Rolling from bed, he stood firmly on two feet and turned to look in the mirror. My, his...
What's the Measure of a Man? I Don't Know But My Tail is Three Feet Long
# Chapter 19: What's the Measure of a Man? I Don't Know, but my Tail is Three Feet Long Johnathan was just turning back to the Talbot's door when it swung open. A moment later Steward stepped out, followed by Emma. The man had quite the black...