She'd been interested in spite of herself. Counting her mothers' scars was so stupid. Yet, something about the way Dad said it made her wonder if.....maybe. So, she'd jogged, almost running over Hamilton as he turned to set out some cookies he'd been making. Yelling "Sorry" over her shoulder, she'd ran through the halls and …
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AAR – Alliance Upsurge Defence Force
G’day H, I bow to your obsession for bloody emails, even though I swore a couple of years ago it was too much of a security risk. I didn’t really pay any attention to what the hell you wrote in that report you submitted to the mayor, but I finally read it while all you …
A Father’s Lesson
He heard her steps coming down the hallway. He heard everybody’s steps, all the time. Brant was good, very good, but….it had been worse lately for him. In most ways, having Livy and Amelia here the last few weeks had been good for him. Every time he thought of that though, then he felt guilty …
An Awakening
He’d been working on the birthday surprise for weeks, but it had seemed so pointless while Henri was in the coma. Bryce wasn’t going to want to celebrate his twenty-first birthday without his best friend, and while Shawna would drink at the drop of the hat, she hadn’t been doing much of anything other than …
Acceptance: A Gleam & Ghost History
September 2016 Tired. Not physically, not really. He could still run for miles if he needed to, but he was getting sloppy. Fatigued mentally. Things had been so hectic over the last month. He hadn’t made a major mistake yet, that he knew of, but….he needed a break, a big break. Christmas was still three …
A Lifting Fog – Missions of Discovery I
“Brett, War Room, now.” The quiet message came over the comm link embedded in his ear. He didn’t really understand all the technology Titan had created with Apex for communications, hell, especially for the armor. Privacy was an accepted illusion as a member of the Alliance, and that didn’t even count the magical artifact Brujeria …
Post Revelation
They’d finally come back from Brewskis. He needed to figure out a better way for transportation to and from the base, for Amelia, Olivia, and frankly for Stacey. This being dependent on the good will of Whitley to teleport, or taking the damn jet tied things to the Alliance too closely. There were a couple …
Karmic Circle, Burning Alive
“Pardon me, do you know the time?” I knew the answer, I knew the answer. I just needed time for it to bubble to the surface. But, I never get the time to do things right as I heard the blades slide from their sheathes and the gun’s safeties click. The spirit damned bake brains …
Journey towards Epiphany
I stumbled into my bedroom, the massive bed, larger than anything I had ever owned before, calling out towards his beaten, bruised, exhausted body. Exhausted from the inside out. Exhausted from the exhilaration of winning the running battle against the Rats and the Kabukis. Worn from terror because I had nearly failed to protect my …
Snow Days
We’d made it to our villa after driving through a fast food place by early afternoon. At this point, I felt that whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” was a damn fool. Maybe it didn’t, not by itself, but it sure helped break the frozen ice that surrounded the happy place. Given that Apex had …
Breaking Down Walls
After I picked her up in the kitchen, we were all over the apartment. Intense and passionate doesn’t even began to describe our lovemaking. It was as if we were truly rediscovering each other after all these years, and that the fear and dread of a true fight, that facade finally shattered, the poison and …
Tearing the Scab Off
The party raged on. I guess it’s ironic, but the more the people around you drink and the later it gets, its not always that entertaining when you can’t get drunk, no matter how much you drink. So, I’d kind of given up trying when we left the Utopia club. I’d tried to give it …
A Father’s Introduction
She walks into the large rec area outside the kitchen and dining area, but pauses, seeing that it was occupied. She watches for a moment, but only one person plays the video game, and she sighs deeply. “Livy,” she says, loudly over the explosions of the game. “Sec, Mum, I almost got it.” Amelia walks …
A Charming Observation
Havlasten sat gracefully sprawled across from me, but I could see the shadows in his cheeks and around the eyes as he rested, and the stiffness with which he had walked through the door a few hours ago bespoke the toll of his illness, even in the month that we had been gone to El …
Ill Winds
The flames of the night fire danced, one might say cheerfully, if one considered this hell hole of a swamp a sunny location. The constant dampness, insects, and mud were really only better than the desert, a location no sane sailor should ever be stranded. His companions, friends really, had taken to treating him as …
Last Dreams 