Together When the Power Went Out
Power outages; who would like them? Well, while they've been happening from time to time, Ginger was legitimately scared of the long-term power outages, due to her poor eyesight in a dark atmosphere. "How can Mark see in the dark," she quietly thought...
Halloween 2018
A bit over a kiloword this year... Halloween 2018 "Try pushing harder," she said, fretting as she shined the flashlight around the tiny closet. He braced and pushed on the door enough for the damp, ancient floorboards to...
Chapter 1: Phantom
What in god's name… she lifted her drained head up straight and opened her eyes more due to the confusing disturbance as she drifted her right palm to the back wall and felt for the light switch.
The Umbra FIles: Chapter 6
I looked straight at sarafina with a hint of malice. why would she be going along with this? she _knows_ i belong to another realm. this is not my home. i have no business- her eyes. i lost my train of thought.
Flight of the Gerthtrude
It's said that hindsight is twenty-twenty, that to retroactively look back on your problems with new information causes the solution to become obvious. Of course, such narrow thinking often ignores that one has that new little tidbit of information but...
Love Seeped Through The Darkness
_ **Author's Note** __: This story was rather interesting to write and the idea just randomly popped into my head. I found it rather sweet honestly. If the story doesn't make sense, no worries. XD like i said, it was the most random thing that popped...
Blood and Fuel
"sage advice, fly straight now." "fuck you, ya pasty monkey fuck!" "i love it when ya talk all wet, ya scaly ulcer!" jack's smile lasted only until he turned around, his crooked grin replaced with a pained grimace.
Of Lawyers and Leagues
There was little in the known universe that could elicit such euphoria as the roar of a drive or the rumble of a well-tuned engine in the heart of a racer, especially one with such love for the sport as Lixistruzsias. Too long… it had been far too long...
Of Wolf and Dragon Chap.1
It was a late Thursday afternoon, dreary from the cold, rainy April weather. From inside the coffee shop, relaxing in the overstuffed black chair that resided in the corner, he watched with half closed eyes as the wind whipped about outside. The trees...
Servant and Dragon - Writing Prompt from Arnak
You never get used to a life of perpetually indentured servitude. Especially when you're constantly being bartered off in bulk shipments to your next master as tribute, bargaining chips, or worst of all, "payment". Payment. It was a cruel inside...
The Last Stop Staryard
Were it possible for someone to angrily, perhaps grumpily, pilot a star ship then a photo of Lix would be the poster for such a heated movement. Her glare, hot enough to melt steel, stared ardently ahead as Jack snickered in the navigator's seat. For...
My Arctic and Me: “How We Came to Be”
It was a dark, stormy early-spring night in Jasper. The trees seemed to writhe in the gusty wind. I'd barely made it into my dugout den ahead of the rain and settled down to wait out the storm. Then the thunder and lightning came. I cowered down into...