If leeches had fuzzy bubblegum pink bodies, big anime eyes, and a dazzling smile full of ferocious pin-sized teeth... They'd be named after you.

You are drilling into my shoulders and chest as you stare back up at me with tears in your eyes like it's my …

Troubled, Rnfl made a seventeen point turn and vanished into the underbrush, nearby the combover. They were troubled. Oh, wait, I said that already.

Strain as she might, Tamsin couldn't catch the voice she had heard previously, the one speaking of a power…

Tamsin knew sleep could bring healing, but surely this was something more. She'd had cuts and scrapes and, moreover, she had been desperately hungry and thirsty. She felt full and satisfied now and did not even feel the need to move her bowels. Had she fo…

It was a long time before Tamsin's young soul could decide whether it would stay with her, or depart for another home, but in the end, it decided that Tamsin deserved another chance.

With some pain and regret that she could not really understand, in the m…

Tam's head lay at the base of the slope, eyes half open, dazedly gazing at the gathering of turtles. They were moving more rapidly now that they were on a level surface. Moonlight and the softly glowing orb shone and sparkled against their glossy shells. …

Bay Three was smaller than some of the other bays, but it still evoked a sense of incredible distance. The lack of suited workers moving around made judging scale impossible. Speaking of - there was no way Edwards could have pulled everyone out so quickly…

Devynne was out of town, and Carl was apartment-sitting for her. Carl plunged Jeffrey teeth-first into some Chinese take-out. Over and over, Jeffrey fetched glistening pieces of glazed chicken until, at last, Carl was full.

Carl set the take-out box down…

The cell was small and stone. Although the occupant was a thin woman, her presence filled the room to overflowing. I could feel it in the hallway. I set my chair down just out of arms reach from the thick iron bars, removed my hat and sat down. I smoothed…

I gazed up nervously at the shotgun hanging on the wall above his bed as he held me in his arms and told me he had "anger issues." Perhaps I shouldn't be here, I thought. However, there was so much pain in his voice when he spoke of the past. I wante…

You know that words can hurt

Even more than a stick or a stone.

A pen destroys more than a sword

A doctor’s care I can’t afford

But there’s safety in staying alert;

Still more, in life alone.

I see where I went wrong;

I’m uncertain what I should have don…

A hermit crab's a humble, helpless creature

That borrows others' armor as it grows

It's fragile, having no protective feature,

And makes an easy victim, as it knows.

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And worse than that, this poor, vulnerable chap

At times, in moments desperate and scar…

My friend deserves much better; still, he clings,

Against all warnings, to that bastard's love,

And whether feighted or genuine, it brings

Destruction. Now the demon's poised shove

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Its victim from the precipice! Oh, now,

He's lost his balance, inches fr…

Astarlane and Tenever landed at full war pace, both of them exercising years of practice to avoid slaughtering everyone around them. Sheer willpower straining against the force of adrenalin and killing instinct, Astarlane had scant moments to wonder at Te…

The ophicleide burbles on, the root, the fifth, the root

The music of the calypso starts the crowd's feet tapping

I don't know this instrument but I know what I like.

~

The Welsh say they like the unusual,

The quirky, the traditional words

And instrum…

The wizard straightened, finally meeting the expectant gaze of the squad leader. She spoke first, her accent devoid of German influence.

"Anything, Tenever?"

"Very little. Her name is Astarlane, a sorcerer of purely human origin and power worthy of resp…

I clenched my fingers around the chain link fence, using the thin metal to keep me standing. The wind rattled it rat-tattat-tat. Sluggish dark water moved through the canal below me. Looking through the forest of skyscrapers, I caught a glimpse of the s…

...

The cars soon sensed their venerable cable

Was slipping in its grip, as sky turned pitch.

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The wind began to shriek, the cars to pitch.

The rain prepared to rip them from their height

And from their apathetic, beaten cable

Which shone, revealed, by f…

It was dark and I was trying unsuccessfully to sleep on the couch. Painting materials were littered across my bedroom with tarps covering the bed and the floor. Muscles ached, sore in unfamiliar ways.

In the dining room, the sliding glass door to the bac…

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The wind gusted right at that moment, as if to punctuate Al's words.

Tsering broke the silence. "Obaku and Hyakujo."

"A, I doubt there are five hundred mes running around," I replied, "and B, I am not a fox. And come to think of it, why are you bringi…

Jonathon woke to the sound of insistent knocking. Everything was dark: his room, the world outside his window, the hallway beyond his open door.

Knockknockknockknockknock--

The sound was definitely coming from within his room. Heart racing, he crept out…

Rachael slipped into the bathroom, eyes on the hallway beyond. She rested her back on the shelves and tensed her thick soled shoes against the door. Stupid place to hole up, she figured. The door didn't even close properly, let alone lock; there was a k…

Her faded blue jeans--faded through use, not by chemicals at a factory--seemed to be slit into strips by the oranging sunlight as she crept across the bathroom floor, sticking to the mat and the towel on the floor, wincing at every creak of the old wooden…

I took pity on Ryle and spun the paper at him, watching him catch it idly with his left hand.

On it were three words in the butler's formal lettering and one in my sister's tall, elegant script. The butler's words were simple - an abbreviated version of …