Slick, Slippery, Slimed--The Siren's Call
I guarded my step, as the floors were hard and slippery, loose stone and debris that had collected over time. i heard a sudden rush of wind from outside, warped by the walls of the beach, into an eerie moan.
The Breegull Boat Part 1: Slimy, sticky, shiny.
She'd been there so long she started to run out of obvious terms to describe it. Not that she minded the challenge, though she took it as a clue that she'd been stuck there a little too long. Once you go from 'taped scrap' to 'bolted plates' it's easy...
The Breegull Boat Part 4: Never squat when tired.
A most unusual event happened that morning. Or whatever time it was. The engine quieted, shouting happened, and a heavy yank indicated an anchor had found a home. An event that nudged her off of the sheet she used as bed, enough so that she could wake...
The Breegull Boat Part 3: Not familiar, is it?
Her awakening was rude and rough. Her fingertips gripped carefully at the metal rim to pull herself across, before she let out a quiet yawn. The blur of vision slowly cleared up as she realized she was far at sea. Even here, she could feel waves trying...
The Breegull Boat Part 2: The non-garbage barge.
Over the weeks she was there, nothing was more rare and uncommon than a ship that didn't ask for the dock workers to help clean out the thing. Whatever from hold to hull, they always wanted something done by someone that wasn't on their ship. So few...
A Slippery Problem In Japan
The stairs are slippery." barbara says. "i'm aware of what's on the stairs." zoe says. "and the one who did it." kit & kitty- 3rd place diesel & deedee- 4th place zoe & patricia- 5th place "yes!" zoe says. "we're still in this thing."
Jeremy 028; Slippery People
Here we are just past the six month mark and I've past a few other milestones behind the scenes. First draft is now written out to seventy five chapters, and over two hundred thousand words. I'm now at a point where I'm pulling a good deal of stuff...
Poem: Slippery Crying
Wires and tightropes and catches oh my, my heart can't withstand the pain; Wires and tightropes and things I despise, my mind can't withstand the rain. Of intrusive thoughts, of intrusive acts my mind will always toward-slip. And yet, even...
A Slippery Situation - Chapter 1
Chapter 2 is where the spoopyness, or rather the tenseness (as this story is primarily a thriller) really kicks up a gear, and no, that's not a figure of speech :) **a slippery situation: chapter 1** "oh yeah, i saved up enough to get me some wheels.
The Gate-Way: Chapter 1 – A Bond Strengthened
His focus remained on the climb as the rock was slippery, and even with the thick pads on his feet he had trouble maintaining a grip.
The Gate-Way Revisited: Chapter 1 A Bond Strengthened
His focus remained on the climb as the rock was slippery, and even with the thick pads on his feet he had trouble maintaining a grip.
Cetacean Screen
Black slippery hide replaced soft skin and did away with hair and nails, overall shape slimming yet retaining strength. his toes melded together so that his feet became slightly flippery and certainly slippery, making him swim slightly faster.