GESTALT/Reality
1 Aiden My jaw and paws are clenched. I watch as Luther maneuvers his titanic mecha, Bastille, around the epicenter: a swirling, primordial pit of purple light that connects our world to an alternate. We, to all purposes, consider that place Hell....
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 7 - "Blood Ties"
7 Up north it was cold, but Canada was always cold to a degree. Still, Ben and his younger brother Jerry hadn't adapted to the climate yet. Their impromptu flight from the USA (or their _reassignment,_ as their boss had put it) was only three weeks...
Lifted Higher: Chapter 1 - "Lips? Of an Angel"
1 "I can't believe I let you talk me into this, Paul." The Airedale terrier just stares through the gym's glass windows and shrugs. He grins at me, and his cute little ears flop as he brushes aside his bangs. Those blue eyes are positively glowing...
Salem Rose Host Club: "The Performance."
"Hello?" I mewed timidly, taking apprehensive steps down the hall. I stared around anticipating Cooper to leap out and scare the shit out of me again, but I saw no one. And this hall went on forever--door after door after door. This building had to be...
Strangers After All: Part I
The trip to Myrtle beach had been an of-the-moment decision. Deacon and I just wanted to get away from our dorms and go somewhere since most of our fellow students had gone home for break. The sand tickled the bottoms of my bare feet as we walked...
Track and Field: Part 19 - It's Time
Sasha The clock in my car's dash read 4:30 pm; my _phone_ read 4:30 pm; if I could've calculated time via the sun's location in the sky I probably would've gotten 4:30 pm there too. Why is it then, that when we agree to meet someone somewhere the...
Track and Field: Part 18 - Black Magic Woman
Lee My arm hurts. It always hurts. The pain's like an itch--like the kind you get in your throat. You can't really do anything to be rid of it. It's always just there. The pain in my heart's the same way. "Come on, son," Uncle Arthur sighed as he...
Plain-walker: Chapter 2
2 The fire was nice. Out on the outskirts of the town, near the border of the plains but within the cover of the Direwood, it became cold--fast. Darkness was approaching, and the warmth would be much appreciated when the night reached its peak. Fire...
Plain-walker: Chapter 1
1 Snow drifted lazily down from the heavy grey, overcast sky. Flakes had been falling for the past week since Ruik finally crossed into the north. The expansive forest surrounding him--called the Direwood--was blanched icy-white, the trees all bare...
Track and Field: Part 20 - Almost Lover
Mindy I couldn't look Trace in the eye, even though I knew his great silver head was turned towards me as I drove. "Mindy," he sighed. "Why didn't you tell him?" After we'd left _Perks--_having delivering our news to Sasha--we retreated to the...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 10 - "Burdens"
10 Rhykard stood stock-still with his eyes closed tight, the training grounds all around him empty...as far as he could tell. It was simply a large glade in the heart of Sentinel Hall, a round swatch of coarse grass and dirt as big as a baseball field...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 9 - "Communing"
9 His chambers were dark when Dante opened his glowing, emerald eyes, blinking away the residual energy dotting his vision and letting out a calm breath. It was done. Being a cat, he could see fine through the shadows, Seth's still form laid across...