You Are Mine
You are Mine Sleet stung my face every time the breeze blew it under the overhang. I leaned back against the wall and slid down to sit on the tiny patch of dry concrete that ran along its length. I watched the pellets of ice bounce off the concrete...
Wet Cement: Chapter 14
Shepard stared at the ground as she walked back towards the hanger, helmet bag in hand. She'd have to speak with Mallet and Flatface tonight. They kept pushing. It was unintentional and she couldn't blame them, but even from her silence they were...
Chapter 10
Rika blinked a few times, staring at her hands while she tried to remember the way they used to look like. Were they hard and calloused, or tender and soft? Or were they like Eve's: slightly calloused yet retaining their femininity? What were her...
Magik & Myth; Falling of the Dusk: Blood Dawn (Chpt 5)
The varg, the holy stories of the dawnwalkers, were written only once, by the very hand of the divine, itself.
Chapter 3
\*\*\*\*\*\* She was flying, high and very, very fast. Below her she could see the curve of the earth as it appeared to twirl backwards, the swirling clouds bursting into brilliance as the sun rose in the west. She was in a cockpit, and even though...
Wet Cement, Ch. 15: Lines Blurred
They had been put on alert the evening Flick announced the koaku assault had been squashed, and continued their 12-on, 12-off schedule for the next two days (FLI-682 did not) until someone finally set some big brass straight and they were told to...
Streetcars 7: Winter
It's been three days since Crunch and Elizabeth had what Boomer calls a "Holycomto Jesus meeting". I don't get it, but the others think it's funny. Anyway, last night we had snow. Real snow. As in a foot of it, not the little...
Wet Cement: Chapter 12-3: Calculus
There was a jostle and he opened his eyes. The lights were on, the red circle was gone, and he could move again. Mallet was standing and stretching. "Awake, sunshine?" "Yeah," Pearson mumbled, sliding out of the bunk and scooting to the side in...
Chapter 6
Gravel crunched under his boots; the scorching heat of the sun-baked rocks radiating through the soles to his feet. Had this been fifteen years ago he would have been sure his feet were slowly suffering burns, and been wondering how close his boot...
Wet Cement: Chapter 11
There was a light bump as the skids touched down onto the bay's deck. The massive doors closed and there was a pause as the bay depressurized. A light above the personnel hatch into the rest of the ship turned green, indicating safe pressure and it...
My Home of Ice and Fire
His hair was long and pale, faded yellow like corpse-skin that fell well beyond broad shoulders, hanging loosely in wispy strands over the heavy coat that had once been his brother, varg.
Chapter 7
"#Rooster, Knock it off#" "Ledger, knock it off," said Echo. He snapped his mask loose and wiped the sweat off his face. He could hear Drone panting in the back seat. "Well that went as expected." Said Barf, who was formed up on his left. Cypher's...