Six has been a good year. It has been the best year so far. Mommy says that when I’m seven, I’m officially a big boy. She says that I’ll be able to stay up a whole quarter hour later. I’ll be able to stay up until eight-thirty. I don’t know what eight-thirty is, but I’m pretty sure that it’s much...
With fleas biting at his flesh, causing bumps to arise that each brought the desire to scratch, Gnak struggled to ignore the urge as he peered across the distance before him. From here the landscape was an ocean of orange and gold sand that stretched on for miles, its infinitive sparkling facets ...
With every pulse his whole body hurt as if he had somehow crushed every bone he had. Too afraid to open his eyes lest the pain in his head increase, he lay for many minutes trying to recall what had landed him in this predicament. He remembered awaking in the car. Sam had stopped them. He remembe...
It was almost as if the forest itself was against their passing. Clearing trees and brush alike, they would find themselves at a steep impasse or a hole where a cave had collapsed beneath the soil. So frustrating were the random occurrences, that only five hours into day two Garret sat down the h...
Behind her was the chamber that she had been given while in service to Judilanthaliz, the head of the gray-robed guardian mages. He was dead now, having fallen in the battle with the black horde. This place was the closest thing to home she and Seth currently had. It had been some time since she ...
Unknowing what they may be facing there, Sirus instructed Garret to wear full armor, even though in his blessed form he would have no need for it. Sirus explained that now that he was a member of the knighthood, Garret would be expected to uphold not only the traditions of the knights and the hon...
Bodies lay here and there like so many discarded dolls, each swimming in a pool of its own fluids. Steam still escaped them from time to time, the room being painfully cold in the evening hours of late fall. Tables and chairs lay overturned or broken and naught but a single candle still sputtered...
It began at the castle and took a circuitous route to the outer wall of the city where it then followed the wall for one complete lap, to again return to the castle in the apparently least direct route possible. Garret understood the necessity for this, of course, but his understanding made it no...
Sara woke to Garrets yelp and quickly untangled herself from Seth’s body. She rolled over just in time to see Garret collapse to the ground thrashing violently. She looked quickly around to see if anyone had come across their camp and was attempting to ambush them in their sleep. Spotting noth...