Blinking furiously, Nessa’s version came back just in time to see Uzila flying through the air over the rise of the next hill. As the old Shaman landed hard in the tall grass, Nessa saw her brother top the rise chasing after her. Even from this distance, she could see his face wasn’t right. His m...
He slid his gaze to Scriber, reminding himself where inky was in his hater list. Tippy top. If he thought Ruin didn’t know what he was up to, he was stupid. He had Scriber’s angle, his number, his slant. He and his God…Ruin lowered his head and shook it as fury gripped him hard. How could this Go...
Disorientated, she lifted her head from the conference table and knocked the pile of papers she’d fallen asleep over to the floor. The DVD player was still switched on, but the TV screen was blank. ‘It’s the doorbell,’ Adam whispered from the corridor. He’d changed his bloodstained trousers for j...
Lord Arnkell was leaner, his shorn brown hair was longer, but otherwise he had not changed. His square, chiseled jaw twitched as he looked at them with a mixture of contempt and amusement. His soft, leather-soled shoes barely made a sound as he walked towards Aein. He was always quiet before he...
The flames seemed to dance to the music coming from tiny speakers on top of the antique buffet Wilson had turned into an entertainment center. “This music is so familiar. What is it?” “Verdi. The Force of Destiny.” Wilson sat about ten inches away from her, arm resting on the back of the couch, s...
I think Jay was out on the lawn, scraping up vomit, or maybe he was rooting through the garbage looking for the container the poison was brought in. The search of our effects had been thorough. So far no vial of suspicious liquid had appeared. So Jay was destined to grub. I was outside loading ou...
His name was Jesus. By the time he appeared in the book in which we came to know him—I am talking about the Gospel of Mark—he was already the Messiah, the one destined to come at the end of the seven millennia or aeons or days. Our first glimpse of Mark’s Jesus has him being baptized in the wilde...
After what he’d just witnessed, it seemed that he’d hooked up with the old-age pensioner equivalent of the Terminator. The radicals weren’t going to come looking for any more hurt. But the fight had evidently taken its toll on Robert. He was pressing his right hand against...
It had been a long time since he'd had a hangover. Being a bar owner had cured him of that kind of ailment a decade ago. Someone had put him in his bed.He knew it couldn't have been himself. He had very little recollection of the last twenty four hours, other than the hard memory of his mother's ...
He bought a bag, and it was hot in the hip pocket of his twelve-dollar suit. He walked across the street to the square. Thomas was coming to America! He had a date for dinner! Crossing the park, he found himself puzzling over the secret of Hoffman’s cigarette trick. Where had he concealed the hol...
Ever since Nina had started to show some signs of coming around to the fact of him and Aedan being were-lions, they had re-initiated the strategy of winning her over completely by means of keeping her fed, keeping her wine glass full, and making sure that Nina had as much pleasure as her body cou...
He had shed his clothes and her gaze devoured every hard angle and sleekly flexing muscle as Colin approached. “We’ll leave the lamps on,” he said. “Yes, just like last night.” “Here.” He lifted the tiny ribbon straps brushing her shoulders. She shivered with anticipatory tremors. “This is lovely...
Bristle Flowers – A flowering vine with quarter sized flowers. Each flower has five yellow petals with a brilliant red center. The name bristle is derived from the hundreds of teeny-tiny thorns sprouting around the outer-edge of each petal. Bristle flowers prefer shaded growing conditions. Chamel...
Saint-Germain lived near to the town of Black Hawk, an unrecoverable site believed to have been located some 60 kilometers west of Denver, somewhere along the eastward-facing “Rocky Mountain” spine of U.S. Province 38 (then known as “Colorado”). The narrative — in the form of a single spiral-boun...
Daniel said when we were away from Moreno. “It fit with what I read in the cabin, though. It’s starting to come together but—” Barking erupted in the forest. A very deep, very familiar, very loud bark. “Kenjii!” Daniel said. I broke into a run. Daniel kept pace behind me. As I ran, I mentally cur...