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February 3, 2018
Epilogue Two: The View Ahead
He couldn’t stay long but it was nice to have a place to rest for a while. Of course, his name wasn’t Timothy Fleming here. Today, he was an American student spending a few months in the Slovenian capital. He had changed the color of his hair and grown a beard. He’d purchased a cane […]
Immortal in Ice
William Shaw wanted to be alone, which is why he had settled in Lapland for a time. Unfortunately, history once again worked against him. The Nazis invaded as part of their offensive against the Soviets. He escaped into the icy wilderness rather be captured. No one could know his secret. He couldn’t really die, not […]
February 2, 2018
Trapped Between Dark and Darker
In a mysterious floating cloud city, eight-year-old Landon and his friend Ana were trapped in a roomful of inter-dimensional portals by a smoke dragon. When the dragon’s snout broke open a door from the outside, it bumped into the boy, knocking both he and the girl through a gateway into the unknown. “Landon!” Ana cried […]
Epilogue One: Mikiko’s Race
Mikiko Jahn was dead. She died on 14 March 2011 when Reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded injuring eleven people and killing one…her. Who was she today? For the mission with Geoffrey Colins and his covert ops team working for the mysterious “Agency,” she had used the name Mikiko Kojima. Kojima […]
Perfecting Peggy
I see you looking at me Like I got something that’s for you And the way that you stare Don’t you dare ‘Cause I’m not about to Just give it all up to you ‘Cause there are some things I won’t do And I’m not afraid to tell you I don’t ever want to leave […]
February 1, 2018
The Long Way Home
His great-Uncle Ian told him everyone in Glaston knew about the Shrine but no one would say much about it. Terry Walker had only met Uncle Ian once before and that’s when he was only six. His mother’s uncle had made a rare trip across the “pond” to visit the last remaining member of the […]
January 31, 2018
The Light is Alive
“You can’t be serious.” Marshall Arnold was the Surface Team Lead for the Tyche expedition and his Science Officer Bertha Rose had just told him something impossible. “I would have missed it if I hadn’t compared my readings to Marco’s stellar observations.” “But what made you take readings of dying Tiagos?” “Blame Gracie. She has […]
Wood Smoke
The old man loaded the portions of the dead tree his son had reduced to firewood into a wheelbarrow and took it to the back of his house. From there, he carried it to the fireplace. His favorite chili was brewing on the stove. He’s spend a quiet evening after dinner reading and sipping a […]
January 30, 2018
The Lightbringer
The day the Lightbringer walked into town felt like the best day in everyone’s lives. She was good, pure, and right. Everyone wanted to know about her and she asked the townspeople to gather in the square at noon. “I am the Lightbringer,” she began as every man, woman, and child were held by her […]
January 29, 2018
City of Sin
The Ninth Chapter in the Undead Life of Sean Becker “Who’s there?” Lucy Weston wasn’t expecting anyone and if Jonny had forgotten his keys, he’d just call her on her cell, not use the apartment intercom. “I don’t know if you remember me. My name is Dolengen. I met you and your sister Mina a […]
