The New Contract “Hermanos, we really are rolling in dough now,” Jose says as he grins. Cassidy reminds him, “Something tells me you don’t really know how much everything is. This will last us a couple months. Maybe only one.” “A month that we don’t have to get shot at,” Jose reasons. He can always […]
The Bounty It’s 1883, the Wild West of America. A never to be forgotten time, full of people and places who will assuredly be forgotten. The Wild West is a time of cowboys, lawmen, outlaws, and victims. I said cowboys and outlaws separately. Take notice. Cowboys are the kind of people children are told about […]
“Great men are almost always bad men.” – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton Lelouch has been in her medical center finishing up on her daily activity of refilling the drug stockpiles, done through a combination of light magic and herbs collected from the Circles of Sin. Today was supposed to be a quiet, boring day. […]
“Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War.” – Rudyard Kipling “I, could kill you, right now….” Mod growls at Cavill. He’s beginning to notice that daemons do a lot of growling, and not in a sexual way. “What?” Cavill questions. “I was only doing what I was told-” […]
“Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.” – Joni Mitchell SEVERAL YEARS AGO “How did you two fall in l-ove?” Amy puts a lot of emphasis on her vowels as if mocking them. Uriel chokes on air before she asks, “Amy, that’s a little rude don’t you think?” She […]
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell TODAY “They’re waking up, beloved,” Noella warns Asmodeus as he finishes healing Petra. Now fully healed, minus her ripped pants, Mod comments asks, “Why are they waking up at the same time?” […]
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lolara was a regarded as a strange child, and honestly, she seemed to like it. Her mother knew this about her daughter as she grew up, so picking a small town in the middle […]
“My mother always told me not to pray to the gods, they have better things to do than listen to me complain.” – Torn, the Thunderer , 1275 A.C.A. Today, Areniya rides atop her griffin, a beast with the head and wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion. She flies expertly through the […]
“The child of the Frost, her child may bring fire and destruction. Her child may bring about the very end.” – The Prophecy of Knight, 1328 After the Coming of Almulan Osera is not what one would call likable, anyone who disagrees can ask her sister, her brothers, nieces, nephews, jilted friends, jaded business partners, […]
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.” – Revelations 12:9 Laya wakes when the morning light creeps into her room and slowly covers her whole body. “Dang it, forgot to shut the dumb blinds,” she mumbles. “Let me get that for you,” another voice offers. […]