Candy Land
It was one of those days where Mother Nature herself seemed to be feeling miserable: the only relief to the steady rain and low cloud being short bouts of hail, the icy stones clattering upon the roofs of the small town and anyone so unwise as to set...
Working Hard
_Clunk. Clunk. Clunk._ Heavy boots on a metal walkway suspended on the outside of a building that seemed to extend down into endless nothingness, the groan of the bolts affixing it to the wall not bothering the lonesome worker: they had held for years,...
The Interview
For once Benedict had succumbed to the combination of boredom and nervousness that was sitting in a waiting room and had picked up one of the long out of date magazines from the coffee table which stood in the centre of the ring of fortunately very...
Sakura Gets Sumosized
Though it looked no different to how she had seen it before, Sakura thought that Octo Canyon looked rather smaller, emptier, and less intimidating now that DJ Octavio was in custody where he belonged. She stood on a ridge overlooking the deep gash in...
Supersizing a Superhero
Professor Malherbe: scientist, businessman, disgraced doctor, evil-doer. His lab in the industrial heart of Honeydew looked just like any other building in the area: three storeys, rectangular, loading doors at one end, the words 'Malherbe Industries'...
Heart of a Wolf
Consciousness is a fickle thing: always coming and going, too slippery ever to be grasped even by the firmest of grips; sometimes, as convinced as you might be of your lucidness, you find yourself waking up from the most vivid and realistic of dreams...
Office Hottie
There he was, a vision of utter perfection stepping out of the elevator: dull black faux-leather loafers, dark grey slacks, and a shirt liberally spotted with all manner of food stains which was ill-fitting enough to leave a couple of inches of belly...
Hefty Haulage: Part One
Having been on the road for the best part of a month, flitting from town to town, city to city, hardly ever without some kind of cargo hooked up to the back of his truck, it was a pleasant novelty for Dolby to have actually spent a night in his own bed...
The Forest
A city just like any other - barely more than a town in the eyes of most people: there were no great landmarks, no real nightlife (this place was surely a city that _did_sleep), neither the home nor the birthplace of any famous people, never a major...
A Day in the Life of a Shark
_Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!_ The deliberately irritating, almost mosquito-like alarm blared through the dark, stuffy, and previously-silent room, crashing upon the ears of anyone in its vicinity. Its volume was such that it all but drowned out the vague and...
One Night With A Shark
Spending a Friday slumped on the couch with the TV on, displaying the latest pre-alpha of a triple-A title while she tapped away at a controller was fairly standard for Liana. Normally she would have been quite content with such a lazy day, for they...
Cassandra (Chapter 2)
More than eight years had passed since that tearful farewell, during which time a great deal had changed in Shaun's life. While still living in the same town as ever, he'd found himself a place of his own within walking distance of the office job he'd...