Pick Me Up
**Pick Me Up** There was no call for it. This thought stuck in Jacob's mind like a fly in a wedding cake. He trudged forward through the morning mist, the heavy smell of pine invading his nostrils, somehow pushing him back...
The Things We've Seen
Dakota stared at the television, a blank look plastered on his lupine features. The canned laughter from nostalgic sitcoms and the bland movements of the stereotypical characters blended into a grey atmosphere of dullness,...
Look to The Skies
**Look to the Skies** The men that had carted the heavy artillery across the field wore drab olive green uniforms and chiseled, stony faces. They were tired; it was another cold March morning, but shock and adrenaline had forced them into a state of...
Slick Run, Ep. 2
**Slick Run** II 44 Arise The first thing Fox noticed as he entered KING was how cool it was inside. The entrance led into a wide, sky-lit circular vestibule, with rooms leading off to the left and right and a broad carpeted staircase heading up...
Black Widow and The Tarantula Ten
Black Widow and the Tarantula Ten I loaded up my six-shooter, putting in the bullets one by one, knowing that the gun wasn't nearly big enough for what was coming. Jason cleared his throat, a clear sign of nervousness that I never liked. He was...
The Bombardiers
The Bombardiers There are often times in our lives when the world just throws us a bit of a curveball in an effort to get us to slow down, take things easy, and just let things happen. Sort of karma's way of saying "Stop this shit right now, you...
Horizons II
**Horizons II** 1 "Are you friend or family, sir?" "Friend," the gray wolf said. He was wearing tan khakis and a rum-colored t-shirt, the kind of color you would rather not see in a hospital. He was scratching at an itch on his left forearm; it...
Hoist The Colors
**Hoist The Colors** 1 The she-wolf that was eying him from across the tavern wore a gaudy red satin dress with a long trailing bustle, two golden hoops in her ears, a black chapeau, and a bluish glimmer in each eye. She was the woman you'd go to a...
Blue Earth
**Blue Earth: Chapter one** I At one time, Max had been too interested in other things to have ever bothered with the subject of heroin. He was too busy studying for high school exams and competing for top spot in the varsity baseball...
The Electric Eye
Whenever I look outside my window nowadays, I'm reminded of some lyrics from one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. I think it went something like "and so in the sky...shines the electric eye...soon the natural king...takes earth under his wing."...
My Home of Ice and Fire
**My Home of Ice and Fire** 1315 Seven hundred years ago... Though many of his men continued to grumble and bemoan the wall of white that enveloped and drove the heat out of their bodies, and cut at their faces like knives, and made their bones...
One Thousand Snakes
**One Thousand Snakes** I It always amazes me the elegance and blatant debauchery of fate and its incomprehensible machinations, the way it makes out our lives to be little more than chess pieces, to use that tired cliché. Fate, destiny, God,...