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I watched in horror as the smoke billowed high. I followed the plume to the leaping flames high above the roof. Flames and smoke poured from every window, every door. I fell to my knees.
The flames were put out, the firemen left, the sooty timbers were …
Posted 9 years ago -
I Might Let You Read It One Day
Thing is, this piece I'm writing, bares my entire soul. It involves you and me and all that we love and hold dear. It's told from my perspective, one that I think you need to hear.
But if I let you read it, I am crucifying myself. The sacrifice it entai…
Posted 8 years ago -
Cow Rite 2: Ray of Wight
Loping along the highway in a bustle of activity and a Winebagel Scampmaster, Ossiary Lefthook sprang bodily towards the Arkansas border, more or less staying upon the tarmacked line of road that went by the name of Interstate 83.2, or "The Tagliatelle Ba…
Posted 11 years ago -
Gunfire: The Navy
I hadn't quite expected Neptune to escalate quite so dramatically. Perhaps the great ship-of-the-line had already been in the area, perhaps the captain owed favours. Either way, we needed to get out.
Ryle squinted at the slowly banking silhouette.
"We c…
Posted 11 years ago -
No Safety in Sleep
“This is what you don't see.” Janine unpaused the recording and upped the contrast and tint until everything on the screen became spiky darkness.
Before I could say anything to contradict her, she pushed a button and bright colors appeared next to my he…
Posted 6 years ago -
Offline Fic'ing
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Posted 8 years ago -
Sertraline Dream #3: I Broke My Laptop
This laptop has served me well over the past few years, ever since I picked it up from the on-campus IT store. This makes it all the more depressing when I manage to break it.
I don't know how I did it, exactly, but a piece of plastic that shouldn't exis…
Posted 12 years ago -
Gunfire: The Turn
There was shouting behind us, and the sound of hooves on cobbles.
Ryle held a hand to the window. Two fingers. Pause. Five fingers. Five fingers.
Two horsemen. Kill them. Ten seconds to shot window.
I knelt down in the coach, loading the rifle with …
Posted 11 years ago -
Ready, Set, Go
The old man wasn't the only person in the van. In the driver's compartment, Trinity Keane switched between police stations. The content was almost entirely banal - robberies, traffic, drug possession, et cetera - but now and then, the interesting happened…
Posted 11 years ago -
The Kranken-Bruder's Tale
There was a prince, and one princess;
She was an angelle, he a mess.
The prince called out for his man-maid
To clean the room. The lemonade
They drank was sweet. The fine chefette
Had used ten lemons; then she'd set
The sugar from her sugar binne
The pinq…
Posted 8 years ago -
Use this to key in student grades after logging in
It's time to write, to start the rite
It's time to key in grades tonight,
For if I'm late, procrastinate,
They'll thump the ones who hesitate.
And so again I fetch my pen
The red one I use now and then
To do my chores and give out scores
And toss them out…
Posted 8 years ago -
This Monday Morning
5:31 A.M.
My heart races, and I immediately chastise my brain into generating 5 things to be grateful for. The list is the same as last Monday morning. The sun rose. I get a chance to start over. I have a warm bed. There is food for breakfast. I am.…
Posted 10 years ago -
Sanctuary
Malika hesitated just a moment, then nodded. Dawn was beginning to break over the mountains on the horizon, and she knew -- without quite knowing how she knew -- that most of the deathless would either be taking shelter for the day or be banished back to …
Posted 6 years ago -
Care Taker
The church in Trien was a handsome stone edifice, built sturdily in decades past and carefully maintained since; the tall arches lifted Orthael's spirits by their apparent timelessness. There was a flicker of candlelight visible through the windows, and t…
Posted 6 years ago -
The run
I had to go, I could not take him with me. I left him in his cage.
Something happened. It happened almost too fast to react to it. As I drive down the freeway, I think about him. I left Oscar in the care of a friend, even though I knew my friend was not …
Posted 11 years ago -
Lost In The Rain
She sat on the bench in the park. It was raining and the clouds were dark. Faint rumbles echoed in the distance from a direction that she couldn't discern. The storm clouds were heavy enough that the sun was but a memory to her and she'd honestly lost tra…
Posted 4 years ago -
Flamelit Silence
Despite the situation, Orthael exhaled in deep relief. This, now, was a question that he had heard before. From widows, from parents, from orphans - even, on dark nights, from himself.
"Oh, swordmaiden. The Flame has always been with you. Through all tha…
Posted 6 years ago -
Higher Thoughts
Judgement was diverted from its biographical investigation by the unfamiliar presence of old magic. Perhaps that was not an accurate description, for the weapon was sure that it had been familiar once, and that in that time the magic had not been old at a…
Posted 6 years ago -
Scorpion
Brass tinkled on the workshop floor. Beckton closed the bolt again, but didn't pop up for another shot immediately. Flame had caught on the solid wood of the workbench, and the heat haze and smoke made it hard to see - only compounded by runes on the unde…
Posted 8 years ago -
Character Profile: Hraz'Elarion
If Drow Elves are a rare sight in the surface realms, Half-Drow are all but unheard of.
Most humans have never seen a dark elf, and with his dusky grey skin and stark white hair, a lot of people assume Hraz'Elarion is one of the notoriously evil Underdar…
Posted 10 years ago -
A Cut Above, A Breed Apart
They strolled into the mess hall nonchalantly in dress blacks that had the exact opposite effect of their understated design. The crowd opened up for them, the same thought flashing through the entire room.
The corporation's special forces were the stuff…
Posted 11 years ago -
Winter, Me, and the Dog
The snow blew violently in my face and tried to lift the hood of my coat off my stocking capped head. The dog pulled on his leash and jogged to the nearest tree trunk, forcing his owner, me, to jog behind him. He lifted his leg and marked the base of the …
Posted 11 years ago -
Burning Questions: Try to open the back entrance's door
Taking your heart in your hands, you leap over the line of fire. You're right up against the doors, but not yet touching them. They are glass, with a frame of metal, and there is a pushbar that is also made of metal.
Posted 9 years ago -
Legends Alike
ME: Hey, I heard that Karl Urban, the actor who plays Dr. McCoy in the new Star Trek films, is the twin brother of Kieth Urban, the singer. That's pretty amazing!
NEIL: Oh, for Pete's sake, Joan, you can't believe everything you read! That's just an Urban…
Posted 11 years ago -
I Didn't Sleep That Night
"Hurry," she breathed, sucking the layer of glimmer and light away from my internal countenance entirely.
Lying on the chalky rug covered in footprints, a boy was seizing in my living room . He was drunk. I wasn't. I didn't even know him.
"In the bag," …
Posted 11 years ago