He needed to figure out a way to get back to his own body, so that he could complete his mission without having to go through the motions of a waking life. There was...

“Sorry,” Danielle said, as she saw the last of the needles float out of sight, and the wall in front of the knight collapsed. She looked back down at the green eyes. “Is it...

The next step was a choice of a direction or not. I stepped forward with care, feeling the ice crystals under my feet and ice crumbs beneath my pantlegs. My feet took me through...

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...

I finished the last piece of apple in the bowl and tossed it down the veranda railing. I walked to the dining room. My parents weren’t there. The living room was empty, except for...

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...

Returning to his squad, Luke picked up his machine gun and charged forward toward the enemy. This time I will make sure that I die a noble death. When he reached the enemy, he...

But then he'd think about his parents. They had told him that they'd made everything okay. That they weren't really mean to him, that they loved him. And then that last night, when they'd...

Sigle, Wenestra's daughter, and the Earl of Vladhaven were lovers. The pair were more than half a year apart. That morning, the girl's father had returned home from hunting. Sigle had been asleep, but...

A man with a neatly trimmed white beard, dressed in black velvet robes, entered the hall. "Monsieur," he smiled with the most charming smile Wenestra had ever seen. "Good morning my Lord, how may...