Fear and Desire - Spirit of the Season
Well, I failed last year, but this year I've managed to put together a Christmas short story. In trying to come up with an idea, I decided to use the opportunity to give a little update to the world of my previous "full-length" tale '[Fear and...
Connections
_ **Connections** _ A heavy barge sent me staggering forward down the entrance slope. The will of my shoe rubber alone stopped me tumbling completely. I missed the culprit; too busy preventing myself from ploughing through the crowd and onto the...
Escaping the Storm: Part 6
Part 6 In the days that followed his discovery of Viktor's opinion on Polcians living in Velika, Erik made a conscious, determined effort to cut all contact with him. Largely, he remained successful; their only subsequent encounters being the...
The Treehouse
**_The Treehouse_** Jason dashed excitedly through the kitchen towards the back door. A cheerful smile beamed from his little face. "Mum, I'm going out to play in mine and Dad's treehouse, yea?" he cried out. "Hold on a minute!" she called after...
Subtlety
_ **Subtlety** _ "Right." I burst into the front room. "I'm just gonna go ahead and do this." My housemates gawked at me from our couch. "Do what?" asked Dylan, the lanky stoat in the seat closest. "Watch." "Dude," groaned the mouse beside him,...
Foundations: Part 3 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Part 3** _ _(Jonas)_ Man, I was _so_happy Ma and Alen got on as well as they did. Not that I had any real doubt. Ma's so chatty and open, friendly and welcoming, that I never saw how it could go any different. Poor Alen. I could read him like a...
Escaping the Storm: Part 4
_ **Part 4** _ Following in the trend of most other weeks, Sunday flashed on by in the blink of an eye. This time however, bucking his own trend of relaxing on his day off, Erik had spent a good portion of it trying to make his home as...
Shallow Goals
_ **Shallow Goals** _ "Got you, Cloud!" I almost choked on a mouthful of chlorinated water, yelling out so fast after climbing back to the surface. "You're it!" "No way!" my brother cried above all the splashing and yapping in the pool around us....
Wrecked
_ **Wrecked** _ I wanted to die. Lucky as I might've been not to have done so already. Here in the dark, up in the hills in the middle of only gods knew where, I sat staring past the cracks in my windscreen. Better that than at the petrified polecat...
Escaping the Storm: Part 8
_ **Part 8** _ "Erik! Thank the gods you're home!" He'd wondered how his mother would react upon his arrival home, almost two hours after escaping the station. Turned out he'd barely be able to set foot inside the front door before being ambushed by...
Foundations: Part 5 (AaO Side Story)
_ **Part 5** _ _(Alen)_ I woke to a stray beam of sunlight the next morning, creeping in past the curtains above to jab me perfectly between the eyes. Normally, I'd have frustrated at waking up so early on a Saturday. At least, I figured it to be...
Hangover
_ **Hangover** _ "Hey," called Dan, arriving back at our table with a beer in one hand and a metal tray balanced on the other. "Which of you got the rum and lemon?" I waved up at him. Easier than trying to shout above the noise of the dusky bar...