"What in the ever loving hell was that?"
Jesse felt Steve's question as much as hearing it. Her melted body draped over his chest, pooled on either side of him. He gently cradled handfuls of ...
2024-03-09 06:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostMicah lay on the couch in his office, watching his beloved Ophilia. She sat at his desk... her desk now, cluttered with work the way all her workspaces eventually wound up. There was something she ...
2024-03-09 06:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostCenturion cradled Siren's still form in his arms and wept. With a thousand tiny fingers of his mind he held her wounds closed, but it hadn't been enough. He'd reached in and forced her heart to bea...
2024-03-01 06:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostMisty lay her hand on Micah's head, brushing his hair back from his face. In the presence of so much Power flying about the room, his hair had grown thick and black, replacing his usual buzz cut wi...
2024-03-01 06:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostSteve stumbled along in darkness, following Jesse's scent more than her hand. He heard her dodge left past a squeaking cart. He followed, caroming off the wall before he righted himself.
"Han...
2024-02-23 08:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostRicardo and X looked on as the great dragon's head slithered down to his prey once more. Their daughter lay in the clutches of something neither of them could hope to fight and survive. Ricardo sli...
2024-02-22 20:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey there!
I want to apologize for being a little late with the latest advanced chapter of Blue Bloods, as well as being slow off the mark with the 'next steps' of alternate-viewpoint Diary c...
2024-02-17 09:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostDrew's phone vibrated against her hip just as the elevator doors slid open. She checked the screen, but the caller ID read 'blocked'. She stepped in and punched the button for the fourth floor with...
2024-02-17 09:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostKatrina watched as Damien ran a final check on his video equipment. Her heart raced in counterpoint to the bursts of gunfire in the distance. Her phone jangled in her ear. She tapped the case secur...
2024-02-14 09:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostRumbling construction equipment woke Jack from a sound sleep. He debated the pros and cons of going to the window to investigate for a bit before he remembered. A wondering smile crept across his f...
2024-02-14 09:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe universe was pain and weight and fatigue. The only hope was enough pain to end it all. Micah couldn't remember how long he'd trudged, step after step, through the snow. Vaguely he realized he f...
2024-02-14 09:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostDeep within her warm, dark cocoon, Grace dreamed of music. The achingly sweet refrains she pulled from her cello. The fierce beat of a marching band. The quiet melody of a stream. The insistent pul...
2024-02-10 07:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostAngela leaned against a door, trying to remember why she stood in the emergency room. She remembered nothing but blur of bodies, triage, and emergency surgery. It started an hour or so after the ra...
2024-02-10 07:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment Grace clutched the heaving seat of the water taxi as the cabbie tried to fight his way up the enormous tsunami. The next moment, the wave broke, flipping the tiny boat end for end, slamm...
2024-02-10 07:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostWalker stared in awe at the passing celestial visitor. Most of the world couldn’t see what saw just now. Most of the world wouldn’t believe it if they could. He wished he had a video camera, bu...
2024-02-10 06:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostSteve was having a bad day. First, he got roped into a no-booze party by Charlie. Then he got knocked off the roof by a helicopter blade. Finally, he woke up in the back parking lot naked, with a t...
2024-02-07 05:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post...Misty stared at Mic. She didn't have time for a visit. Drake would be free of the blessed bamboo soon, and when he was, he would be furious. He would kill her if he caught up to her.
Mic p...
2024-02-07 05:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostKatrina slid her hand under Damien’s shirt, and the world chose that moment to go insane. Something smashed through the theater screen, leaving fire and smoke in its wake. The screams from the fi...
2024-02-05 03:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostAngela leapt down the emergency stairs one flight at a time. A tiny voice inside of her screamed that she would break a leg, but the sheer exhilaration of her tiny moments of freefall eclipsed that...
2024-02-05 03:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostTee straightened, turning as she did to face the entrance of the museum. Captured in the light of a single spot, an intruder stood staring straight into the beam that highlighted him. By the way he...
2024-02-04 07:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostJesse bounced to her feet like a rubber ball. The shrapnel from the exploding helicopter had already gone past, so standing was relatively safe. Something had yanked Steve clear of her a moment aft...
2024-02-04 06:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostPhil stacked the last of the papers neatly on Micah's desk. She didn't want to think about the compromises she'd made, but she'd bought another month. This one was the last, though. If the museum d...
2024-02-02 06:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostCharlie screamed 'Incoming!' Reflexes Drew didn’t know she had made her throw herself to the ground. In midair, before she hit the ground, one thought filled her mind. I am going to beat him ...
2024-02-02 06:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostMicah trudged through a dark, leafless forest. Ice covered every branch, a relic of the storm he'd weathered on the way here. He couldn’t tell for sure how far north he'd come; the storm took awa...
2024-02-01 18:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostCharlie finished setting up the sound system. “This party is going to be out of this world. Pun intended.”
Angela threw a carrot at him. She’d been hovering around the food since some o...
2024-02-01 17:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostRicardo flitted through the darkened museum, uncomfortable in his new outfit. Haute couture was his normal mode, and he had learned to appreciate the convenience of island casual clothing, but he'd...
2024-01-31 04:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostGrace looked across the bay. To get to the consulate or the airport, she needed to cross half of Hong Kong. To do that required taking a taxi, in which case she would still be stuck in traffic when...
2024-01-31 04:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Morrigan looked down on her minion from her obsidian throne. She felt good; it had been too long since she replaced the body she used here in her stronghold. She’d swathed her new body in cri...
2024-01-30 14:40:54 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Walker looked across the gap between himself and the shuttle. He’d waited half an hour since they signed off. He ran through his check again; everything showed up as functioning normally. He...
2024-01-30 14:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostX slid silently through a space that wasn't there. The owner and creator of the non-place was a being of power, and like all such beings, he had his secrets. Secret places, secret things. X was the...
2024-01-29 14:34:21 +0000 UTC View Post