The Ford Escape flashed through a red traffic light, slipped around a small woman driving a small Nissan Sentra and slid to a halt parallel to a street curb, sending a curtain of water high into the air and falling like a liquid anvil onto the empty sidewalk in front of the red brick apartment [...]
“If you could have anything you wanted, right at this second, what would it be?” “Well I wouldn’t want to have all these weird things happening,” I said slowly, obviously holding back. “I already knew that. You say it all the time. But I also know there’s something else you are trying so desperately not [...]
“You do not,” she whispered, “come to me; I come to you!I come when I wish it, not when you beg for it.I come when you need my strength,when you can’t carry on or when you are ready to give up.I know of your need and I will fulfill itbut only on my terms.I choose [...]
Before Tom could continue with his story, a sudden gust of wind roared in the chimney. The sound made me jump and caused Jip to look up and eye me warily. “It’s turning into a bad night.” Tom voice made me more aware of the deepening shadows and their inky-black shapes on the stone floor. “Perhaps it would be [...]
Janette was trying to play Burdlit, he thought. But this was not a game that she could win, and by the end, Galaxy Bloc would lose. Dio Qze was not the first planet to have been terraformed with a Deew in place of its expected star-powered core. Far from it, so even if the botanist was [...]
Emanuel did not know that he had finally met The Woman until late after the party at his best friend’s house in Phoenix, Arizona. At the party he behaved as usual, reserved, courteous and always complimenting the older ladies. He had noticed the tall, slim and gracious woman greeting the guests along with his friend’s [...]
I wanna see an episode of Celebrity Bear Jeopardy because I wanna see how smart the average bear is. What is Yogi really bragging about? I haven’t seen a think tank of bears at MIT or a group of astrophysicist bears at the Houston Headquarters of NASA or being certified by the AMA to conduct [...]
Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King Richard III) could well have gone into the history books as a footnote between the Plantagenet dynasty and The Tudor reign had it not been for William Shakespeare’s play and the mystery of “The Princes in the tower.” Richard was only on the throne a little over 2 years, [...]
Body and Soul, a story of Possession. Part OneI wondered, as I drove along the narrow, twisting roads on my way to visit my old friend Tom, why the belief in the paranormal is so readily accepted in the countryside. Is it the absence of streetlights that allowed the mind to wander, or the tranquil way of life, uninterrupted by [...]
More than a year and a half ago, nine authors from Second Wind Publishing got together to write a novel online. We knew nothing more than that a little girl’s body had been found in the wilderness near the desert community of Rubicon Ranch.
