Though I am bone-weary with fatigue, I wander the streets. I take in the burning lanterns with their eerie flickering light. I walk close to the river, listening to the quiet, calm movement of the water. I walk the streets, staring past their lights and up into the lights of the heavens, the star...
It was a relief to close her eyes. Her dreams were ... unsettling, though. Anna usually dreamt of inane silly things. Tonight, she dreamt of dark rituals and hidden magic. By the time she woke in the morning, she was sweating. She shifted up, pressing a hand to her sweaty brow. That’s when she no...
I'd heard those two bullets, I’d seen the look of frigid surprise and fear on Sebastian’s face. Dear god, could my life get any worse? I took that exact moment to slip down, the ridiculous heels Sebastian had given me losing their grip along the slicked and treacherous metal. Thankfully I had a h...
Nema said as she walked by Ava’s side. They were on a scanning detail through the belly of the ship. The Mandalay had megalithic storage bays. They’d yet to be filled. Nema and Ava had to scan them to ensure internal scanners were properly aligned before any cargo was shipped in. They walked down...
The second she’d walked in the door, was the second Mandy had run over to her, begging Jane to tell her every single detail of her conversation with Lucas Stone. Jane had happily spilled the beans. ‘Oh my god,’ Mandy said as she sat there in her chair, shaking her head to and fro, ‘this is incred...
Before I could break down and tell him what happened, he casually mentioned he was on the same planet I was. We decided to meet up for a drink. It would be easier to tell him in person. I could show him the damn betrothal contract. Otherwise it was so ridiculous I doubted he’d believe me. I used ...
Though it sounded crazy, as I’d spent the last several months trying to shake her off. But today she was being comforting. She hadn’t mentioned my inability to interact during the spacer lecture and nor had she mentioned my episode with the mindair. Instead she was chatting happily, as always. Tr...
There were 10 trucks and cars parked in the meadow that night. While everybody else was outside, leaning on their bumpers, hands on their door frames, chatting excitedly as they listened to the radio, these three would not leave their vehicle. One man, middle-aged, slightly balding hair rimming h...
She was attractive, by human standards. And though that shouldn't count for anything in this modern galaxy, it still did. At least to certain people. Her new boss, Frank – a massive Morxian – seemed relatively nice. Though he had a booming voice and the kind of massive form that made it seem as i...
I ground my sweaty flesh against the smooth metal, face contorted in pain, eyes squeezed shut. With bared teeth, I waited for my agony to pass. My hands jittered by my sides, my body now so sweaty it had soaked through the blue-black of my Star Forces’ uniform. Another wave of pain hit me, and I ...
She was terrible at athletics, she was horrible at gymnastics, and she’d given up on most forms of exercise by the tender age of 15. She couldn’t run and she was so uncoordinated that she’d always trip over everything in her path, from dustbins, to dogs, to old lady’s walking frames. Tonight it w...
Her wet hair trailed behind her, somehow managing to sprawl out like a half-hearted cape, even though the rain drove down in a vertical stream so strong it felt as if she was standing directly underneath a waterfall. And it wasn't just her hair, either. Everything about Ebony, at that moment, scr...
It was that kind of silence where you knew it was directed at you, if that made any sense. People specifically weren't talking to me. And of all those people, I noticed one more than anyone else – the good old Commander. Everything had obviously just caught up to him – the monster, me, this gener...
Detective Cortez said as he leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. William smoothed a smile over his face and offered the detective a gracious nod. “I have told you before, I am always at the Hope City PD's disposal. Especially when a crime is committed against a vampire.” Benson smiled a...
Night had fallen a good half-hour before, and for the past 15 minutes Jackson had been on high alert. A wolf pack had been on their tails. From the subtle crack of a twig being trodden in half to the lingering smell on the wind, he’d had no doubt of what was out there. Pushing a hand into the sma...
Of course it was barely a few minutes, but my mind was racing here. After I had jumped down onto the street, I had made my way to the museum. It had seemed a logical choice, after all. Lord Ridley was to have his exhibition there, so I figured I would quickly stake the place out. I wanted to know...
I wasn't, however, driving. Granny was. It was quite an experience to be alongside an old, previously demented woman wearing pearls as she clutched her hands onto the steering wheel and drove the car like a maniac. Yes, a maniac. She cut in front of people, tooted on the horn, and once or twice I...
She'd gotten lost on every single side road she'd found. At one point she'd accidentally taken a wrong turn and had come across a military base. Fortunately she'd had the good sense to turn around the second she'd seen the massive, gated off area over the crest of the hill. According to the resea...
She was determined not to go back with Josh. Yes, he had saved her in the past. Yes, occasionally he could be nice, gentle even. But she couldn’t put up with that cruel side of his personality. She couldn’t stand there and wait for the kind Josh to be replaced with a monster. So she ran up the sa...
His Chief Engineer glanced quickly towards Evelyn, maybe let her eyes flicker down Evelyn's long figure, gave a chuckle, winked at John, and finally got to work. ‘We’ve completed a thorough scan of the ship. And it is just as I told you over the comlink. We have salt everywhere. And from the spec...
Well, I didn’t exactly fancy I was wicked, but Vali did. I didn’t get a chance to return to my room and beat my pillow to let out my frustrations. Megan marched into view, a scowl marking her perfect red lips. “With me,” she demanded as she clicked her fingers and pointed to her side. I was like ...
After a few quiet, restless minutes, I brought a hand up and pressed it close over my eyes. I ground my thumbs into the flesh around my temples as if I was trying to unscrew it. I’d been seconds from losing my goddamn life. If that refinery worker hadn’t acted when she did, and torn the bot from ...
Any possible feeling of ill will I’d held towards Annabelle and her slightly strange behavior was gone for good. She was genuinely nice, friendly, and clearly wanted to get to know me while helping me out. In fact, I was laughing at another one of her rather dry jokes as we made it into the pub. ...
I can't say I awoke with a nice godly blanket pulled over me and a curled-up toga supporting my head. Then again, I wasn't, thankfully, strapped to a wall either. I didn't wake anywhere either appropriate or inappropriate for a potentially injured goddess. Instead, I didn't wake up at all. I neve...
Neither could she talk. In fact, she could barely think. Because something was happening to her. Something terrible. The pain in her chest kept building and building, and as she stared down at her hand, with a surge of incapacitating terror she saw blue tendrils of energy driving under her skin. ...
He took something for the pain, and continued to relentlessly monitor the instruments and her quietly sleeping form. At the first sign of anything nefarious, he was ready with a neural shock to wake her up. It was such a tense time. &nbs...
She would have to find some other time to talk to him. But the more time they spent apart, the more she desperately needed to discuss. And of course, at some point, Abby was going to have to broach the subject of Pembrake stealing her saves. Maybe if he'd only taken the glory once she would have ...
She wasn’t entirely sure what she could do. She simply knew this was wrong. Some part of her could appreciate Carson and the rest of the Coalition Academy had a point. An incredibly important one. They could not risk the Coalition with all of its co...
Cost her. . . . . She brought a hand up and placed it over her implant. There was a cold, strange kind of energy building there that did not for a second feel natural. It was almost like a void. She had not and would not breathe a word of this to Ca...