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...

She was 16, a kid from a family with four kids, three girls and one boy, and she had been kicked out of every place but one. She had been kicked out of the...

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...

I was lying on my bed, looking at my watch. “You have to go to work now,” she said. “Get up and get to work.” I stood up and grabbed my backpack. “Do you...

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...

When the wind freshened, the man on board felt it, he dreaded it, he knew the danger. The night, the night. When the moonlight vanished, the man felt the storm, but then he saw...

Dewey Decimal is a perfect example of what the world wants in life. In reality, he's not allowed to live the way that he wants to. He has to be maintained and manipulated, or...