Journey to the West: Rescue
Taking opportunities at roadhouses to hitch a ride on trucks heading in the same direction, mike took cover in their trailers. now, however, he was in the desert with no ride.
How to Raise a Dragon (Part 3)
They sighed after the job was finally finished without a hitch, but when wilker was about to strap a diaper onto daran, a fetid yellow liquid squirted into the air and started soaking the wolves' fur. "what's that smell-oh my god!!"
The Darwin Chronicles: Introduction
Either way, it was a good haul and it had gone off without a hitch. at least, that was what they thought had happened. but most things in life are never that simple, as the crew of the darwin and the captives from the arc-621 were about to find out.
Finding love at Christmas
My breath hitched. he was amazing. not in brains or anything like that but he just looked amazing. he bent down and i saw all of his muscle roll and harden as he stretched the kinks out of his muscles and bones.
Ander - Chapter 1, Subchapter 10
_ taking deep, hitching breaths, she blinked her tears away and forced herself to look at the situation with calm eyes. or at least as calm as she could manage with that burning pain grinding away at her ankle.
The Magician's Test
Logos' breath hitched as he turned incorporeal, orboros' jaws nearly clamping down on him before he did. instead, the beast sailed through him, landing over the torn portal and spinning around, muscles tensing to jump again.
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 18)
* * * the pep rally had gone off without a hitch. call it master planning on the student council's part, enthusiasm on both the athletes' and spectators' part to kick off the sports season, or just school spirit, but it was flawless.
Personifying the Sun
"well, i'll just hitch a ride to speedway ... swipe an indy car. that should do." a light laugh. "don't think those are all-terrain, though.
With The Flow
I hitched a ride on a boat to shed some light on a fabric factory here that's owned by a big north american clothing corporation that has it coming." she'd grunted knowingly, and nodded in assent. "i wasn't kidding about offering to help, you know."
Dragon's Christmas Adventure
We have a whole herd of reindeer back at the north pole, but there is no way i could get back to there, hitch them up, and still deliver the presents in time."
New Set of Claws - Commission for catprog
hitched up trucks and souped up cars would sputter past jasmine, black fumes vomiting from their exhausts and fogging up her vision. every so often there would be the blare of a car horn or the screech of tires.
New in Town
"i'm glad to be gettin' outta here," said the first worker, the older of the two, as he loaded their equipment into the trailer hitched to their van.