My eyes were frozen on the man by the fire. His brown hair stood up like fire-dipped flamingo feathers. His gaze was piercing yet fearful. I could feel the cold through my skin now,...
To the right was the shopping district, a large plaza full of specialty stores, all of them filled with bright and shiny merchandise that the masses loved. Then, they would push farther along, to...
"What do you want?" Wenestra's daughter, the dark-haired, dark-eyed young beauty of the clan, was in the room. "I'm told you need a place to hide. We have one." "Can we please just go...
So, when I was reading through the recent NY Times article about a new study that showed that those with the highest frequency of violent deaths had higher levels of testosterone, the more I...
The ground is no good though. The road was created to be a surface for vehicles to roll on. It should be some kind of flat surface; a single flat surface to roll over....
For the first month of her life, Genevive slept soundly and never cried. After that, she slept through the night. She sleeps now at the drop of a diaper, with no pain. She sleeps...
He didn’t care. -2- Now, I could have said a prayer, or a good old fashioned "Thank you." That would have been fine. But there are circumstances in which it isn’t a good idea...
The young soldier woke up about 1 month later on May 9th, 2010, in a hospital in Kuwait, having lived through a life-changing experience. Luke had been brought to Kuwait by his parents. His...
She found a patch of the soft silt that covered the coast at sunset, then trudged through the shallows to a beach that had not been there at dawn. The salty tang of the...
She could already feel the pull to the National Science Institute. It was a familiar place- a place she could spend eternity in. Perhaps she could even go through her days not in her...