Paul is saddened by the recent loss of his wife and trying to put his life back together. He is trying to grant her wish that the family go back to normal when she passed. What is normal will never be normal again. Paul and his son begin to dream of a demon, his daughter says she sees mommy in th...
He felt the bruise over his ear. It was tender to the touch, but nothing worse. He had blacked out for a minute. Well, Julie had warned him not to go into the attic alone. The last time, he had fallen ten feet and broken his leg in two places. It was a bitch of an injury. Four years in the heat a...
It wouldn’t take much, he knew. The woman was spooked, but in a way, so was he. He had to think. Memories like faded old pictures were intruding, making him uncomfortable, shaky, and insecure. This was no way to captain a ship. “Get your stuff together, old boy,” he thought. “Concentrate on what ...
Sliding into the quiet confines of the car, he shook his head to the inquiries of the driver. “What happened back there?” the accented driver asked insistently. “A cable broke.” “A cable?” “Yeah, snapp...
Night had fallen, and it was showtime. The Strip was like a parade, cars inching along, the cacophony of hundreds of varieties of music blaring in the sultry night air. He stood before the Venetian, watching rowdy young men screaming from the balcony. They held yardsticks, a beverage in a thirty-...
Danny Jessup, his boss and chief of police, walked past him, pausing to take a sip from his ever-present coffee cup. He exchanged a look over the rim, catching Carter’s shrug. His phone vibrated with a message. He pulled it out, noting that Wyatt informed him he’d just arrived. Carter texted back...
General Swart stated from his seat on the Orbitus Chamber, a group that met daily with the king. “I am still in mourning, General. It is out of the question,” V’sair answered absently, his gaze on the condensation coating the wall of windows. “It’s filthy out there today,” he added to no one in p...