Ragnarok - XVII

Imagination of yet-mortal man might easily have fabricated ghouls always just out of reach, or enemies around the coming bend, invisible until one stood amid their silent throng, or fancied that the sound returning of his footstep masked the hiss and

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 15-Progress

"do you have the video of those ghouls from the tunnels on your pda?" "right here", steven said tossing it to me.

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Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Six

Chapter Thirty Six D.K. snarled and pawed the ground anxiously, twitching like druggie desperate for his next joint. I recognized hesitation in his body language, which was a relief. His head may have been void of common sense, but even he had to...

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Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Five

Chapter Thirty Five We ran for thirty minutes, sticking to the woods but keeping the town in sight. I could smell every car that passed on the nearby street, the rancid, acidic scent burning my sensitive nostrils. D.K. stayed in the front, leading the...

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Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty One

Chapter Thirty One I watched, stunned, as the lead whatever-he-was let the door jingle shut behind him. That had been, without a doubt, the quickest, most efficient robbery I'd ever seen. Not that I'd seen many, but still... I turned to look at...

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Presto - Chapter 5

There was mirth and revelry in the air, and everyone, ghoul and goblin alike, dressed in their worst, had come out to play. excited chattering emanated from the line winding around the building, as ids were checked, and reservations were fulfilled.

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Surface: Doomed Planet-Excerpt 8-DJ Skyline

, i asked as we made the intersection, the truck's tries crunching over the bodies of a few slain ghouls as we started up another hill, "what matters is that he's dead and gone." "i suppose", mike said.

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Legion of Sytarel - Ch. 18: Defeat

He was a ghoul, a living construct with the flesh and soul once again reunited. everything pleasant had been taken from him. arion gasped as the real world returned to him.

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Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Three

Chapter Thirty Three "Hold still," I said, dipping the washcloth into the bathwater. Kimberly shut her eyes tight as I reached up and began to dab at her face. "It hurts a little," she said when I lowered the cloth again, rinsing it off as best I...

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Amber Silverblood: Silverpack, Chapter Seven

Chapter Seven I stayed in my room for the rest of the evening, even ignoring my mom's calls to come to dinner when she got home. I could hear Kimberly romping around in the hallway, nails painted, full of sugar, and a hundred times happier than I...

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Amber Silverblood: Silverpack, Chapter Six

Chapter Six Ed's words echoed infuriatingly in my mind as I got off the bus that afternoon. My comments about going to a stupid Larp had staved of Stacey's questions for the rest of the day, but what the little twerp had said haunted me anyway....

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Amber Silverblood: Silverpack, Chapter Five

Chapter Five Ed didn't move for a good thirty seconds, and his face slowly turned as pale as Hendricks'. "Oh, hey, Amber," he finally said. "What's up?" He started to sink below the table, and I leaned in closer so that we never broke eye contact...

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