Maverick Hotel Part 5
Dinner was tense and deadly quiet most of the time, with Mary and I exchanging small talk between bites of dinner. Mostly, it involved complementing her cooking. Chunks of ham, broccoli and other spices were mixed gradually in, giving each of our...
The Book of Warlock 9. The Collector.
Everything has its opposite. There is light, there is dark. There is matter, there is antimatter. There is magic... and then there is Dark magic. They repel each other, they will not mesh, will not blend, will not co-habit hosts peacefully. Both...
Chapter One: Part Two --- The Salvage Beneath
The gondola lowered Anthony, as well as a handful of replacement shift workers through the fog below. The collie felt himself stiffen as the rickety bunch of cables and catwalk descended through the four stories of of all-encompassing vapor. For...
Rebuild, Renew: Chapter One: "Prologue"
"This is the People's Radio coming to you with the daily update. Today comrades, progress has been made with taking over the whole state of Nebraska! Our brave partisans have fought tooth and nail while destroying every fascist and...
Dawnbringers
"Hold the port and protect those civilians! The transports will be here! Give them not one inch of ground! Give them every cap and give your life if you must! But! You! Will! Hold! This! PORT!" bellowed the Lieutenant, the last surviving officer of...
Monster Mankind Chapter 5
John felt like he had a good nap until the wave of bodily aches robbed the temporary feeling of serenity from him. He questioned the pain that he was experiencing until he remembered what had happened before. He'd been knocked out by the Nemean lion....
Aspen - Chapter 1.1 [Sci-fi TF novel]
Aspen Chapter 1.1 I heard a click, followed by a soft hiss, as the loudspeakers turned on. There was a brief pause, and a man spoke. "Okay. Testing, testing... seems good." He cleared his throat and continued, in a very official-sounding tone....
Kaotic beginnings - A Kaos Army story - Chapter 3
Kaotic Beginnings: Chapter 3 Aardvark looked at dinosaur. Dinosaur looked at dinosaur. Dinosaur looked at aardvark. They all looked at The Dragon. "M-Military?" Anar said, trying not to choke on the word, "you're running a military organisation?"...
Kaotic beginnings - A Kaos Army story - Chapter 2
**Kaotic beginnings: chapter 2** Something large, green and angry (that wasn't Rave for a change), swung out of a creaky wooden seat with knuckles dragging the floor, and blocked the party's path to the bar. It had a row of piercings in its pointy...
Maverick Hotel Part 3
Lowell helped me get dressed before we immediately bolted for the seddies' room. He probably woke up half of the top floor from how he slammed it shut, but neither of us cared. One of the seddies was awake, something we should've been overly excited...
Kaotic beginnings - A Kaos Army story - Chapter 6
Brainstorming a name for their new military organisation and a snazzy logo to go with it reminded Anar of the awful 'Teambuilding Workshops' back at Hell Afterlife Services. Clusters of devious minions forced to work in small groups, who...
Monster Mankind Chapter 4
John looked into the park, the massive tree of ethereal charm sheltering the people below it as other trees surrounding the grandest of the bunch. But now, on the very floor of the park, the trees were taller than he expected. John had seen some...