Jesse looked across the emergency room just in time to see a ragamuffin figure slip in through the sliding glass doors. The woman wore slightly tattered sweatpants, a blue sweatshirt with the hood ...
2024-01-29 14:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostMicah trudged through snow. A few days before, he'd managed to pick up some boots at a small general store in a town he'd come across. They'd had jackets, but he didn't need warmth. Traction, howev...
2024-01-28 15:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Walker looked down on the Earth from above. He wished he could spend his life in the sky like this. He found peace above the strife, the politics, the people.
Above the atmosphere.
Okay, hopefully not nothing. It's taken me a while to really get a handle on how much I can do without leaving myself bed ridden for a week, but I think at this point I've mostly got a handle on it...
2024-01-27 11:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostRicardo knew he was not a brave Pixie. Not like his muy macho X. He did what he did very well, but his passion was clothing, accessories, and above all shoes. He loved shoes. The bane of h...
2024-01-27 10:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostSteve looked across the tiny break room and watched Jesse play with her sugar glider, Cory. The little rat bugged him. It would hide in her pocket and jump out at the least opportune times. Still, ...
2024-01-27 10:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostTime slowed down, and Angela Merylin stared at the skylight. The screaming injuries, the crying children, the angry voices of two dozen stressed people all faded into the background. One by one, sh...
2024-01-26 12:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostDrew Williams stared at her bathroom mirror in disgust. Six years on the force wasted. Four years of college, four years of graduate school, all shot to hell by one stupid bust. Fog crept up the mi...
2024-01-26 12:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostHalf an hour after Phil started, after a succession of images, names, and questions, she had entered almost all the museum staff in the new system. She’d identified the security guards, entered t...
2024-01-25 11:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostMatt leaned back on the hard surface of the courtyard. The lights off the pyramid in front of him were nearly as beautiful as the tiny woman at his side, and far less likely to blush when he stared...
2024-01-24 05:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostMicah stopped halfway up the cliff face. It had been a while since he did any free climbing, but it came back to him quickly. He looked a question at his left shoulder, and the ugly imp perched the...
2024-01-23 14:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostFrom her sanctum in Micah's office, Phil watched the museum. The dedicated server running the advanced security software was hidden away under lock and key, protected even more heavily than the art...
2024-01-22 05:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostMatt looked down at Michaela as she led him toward what was possibly the most famous museum in the Western world. He wasn't upset about going, but he hadn't expected to visit until they'd had a wee...
2024-01-21 14:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick thank you to everyone who has subscribed! I know I've been slower than I want to be about getting things up here, but everyone in the house is sick (including me), so I'm working with ...
2024-01-21 13:33:39 +0000 UTC View PostTee drifted through the galleries, stopping every few steps to clean, to straighten, to admire. In time, every sculpture, every painting, every bit of art in every gallery eventually got her attent...
2024-01-21 13:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post"I still think there's a connection."
Matt shrugged his reply and sniffed at the wine in his glass. The Air France jet transporting them from Saint Petersburg to Paris had fabulous accommodat...
2024-01-20 07:09:13 +0000 UTC View PostOphilia sat at Micah's old, worn desk. She focused on the smells that permeated the room, the smell of leather, of paper, of varnished wood. The faintest hint of his cologne drifted through the air...
2024-01-20 06:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostMicah walked down the long, winding alleyway that led to Sammy's nightclub. Less than four blocks from City Hall, yet few mortals even knew it existed. The city’s club scene crowd talked about it...
2024-01-19 04:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe most recent version of book two of Artifice
2024-01-18 03:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostTee drifted through the museum, a ghost in faded coveralls, trailed by a utility cart that rolled along the hardwood on silent wheels. In every room she policed the floor and all the crevices for l...
2024-01-18 03:11:51 +0000 UTC View PostMicah and Ophilia lay entwined on the couch in his office. Her fingernails trailed idly across his chest. They didn't leave any welts behind. She sighed in relief, then frowned when she caught sigh...
2024-01-18 03:11:03 +0000 UTC View PostProtect the Art, Protect the Art, Protect the Art, Protect the Art...
Micah leaned back into his chair, his eyes sliding closed. A sigh escaped him. It wasn't like him to be this ind...
2024-01-18 03:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostMichaela really had to tell Matt about the smell she'd picked up in the last gallery they visited, but the case distracted him, and he had all he could following her. Then again, his words from ear...
2024-01-18 03:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post"What is it with you, Frank?"
Matt looked down at the diminutive figure of his wife striding alongside him, and despite himself he smiled. Her old nickname for him, based as much on his size ...
2024-01-18 03:06:21 +0000 UTC View PostOn a beach on the opposite side of the globe, a solitary figure sat quietly staring at the sea. The old man was still, his face set in a peaceful smile as he watched the faintly lapping waves. His ...
2024-01-18 03:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostTee felt like her life was coming to an end. She watched, desperately trying to control her emotions, as her mentor packed his things. He’d already donated most of his possessions to local charit...
2024-01-18 03:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostMichaela looked across the old palace armory to where Matt moved around an empty armor stand with exaggerated care. Even after so long, it still surprised her that such a big man could move so deli...
2024-01-18 03:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostDeep in the darkness of eternal nightmare stood a chair. Vines occasionally tried to grow up its legs, giving it the appearance of having roots. The vines, long since dead, had turned hard as stone...
2024-01-18 03:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostMicah stared across his desk, trying desperately to remember what the man sitting across from him just said. It was no use. The Words in his head drowned it out entirely. There was nothing for it b...
2024-01-18 03:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe bridge of a starship isn’t the only place a Captain can command from; my memories from Captain DeLann showed me that. As Echidna slipped from her pocket into real space, I dropped our last re...
2024-01-16 06:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post