I will give you my finest hour
A bubble of spit sits perched on his puffed-out lower lip, and his eyelids softly flutter. The young Dalmatian sleeps, dressed only in a pair of ancient boxers that once belonged to me. Just a bit - just a hint - of his sheathe pokes out from the...
Albion chapter 4
_For some initiates, the most difficult thing about joining the Sisterhood can be finding a balance - a balance between one's individuality and the Sisterhood as a whole. A balance between the needs of one's Self and the needs of the collective group...
Albion chapter 1
_We know that the Empire lasted almost exactly 1,000 years. (We know this because they kept very accurate records.) Imagine that. Imagine something lasting that long, if you can. Such a long lifespan partly explains how the Empire was able to shape the...
Albion chapter 3
_The Wolves of Norseland first came to Albion more than three hundred years ago. They came from the north, from across the Narrow Sea, sailing to Albion in ships they call longboats. At first, the Wolves were content with brief raids along the northern...
Albion chapter 2
_King Alaric the Just was more than a warrior. More than the bravest of Tigers. More than the most merciful and wisest of Kings. He was also a mage - a fact known to only a few of those closest to him. He only used his magic in battle, and only rarely,...
a chance encounter in the woods
The rain had _not_ been forecast. I wasn't prepared. I was hiking through the woods, wearing my old hiking boots and a pair of cut-off jean shorts. It was a warm day, so I'd stashed my tee in my bag - a bag, by the way, which contained (aside from my...
The wave inside chapter 2
Chapter 2 "Roll with the changes" \*\* _(After the Pulse, society has collapsed and technology is gone. Magic vanished from the world a century ago, but Pascal (a college student) thinks he can bring it back. He's teamed up with Luke, a grad student...
Crossing the Rubicon (prologue)
{_"All the nightmares came today, and it looks as though they're here to stay." _- David Bowie.} \*\* "You're twenty-five," Duncan pointed out. "Too young to be a cynic." "I don't know about that." I shook my head. "The way the world's falling apart...
the ride
Steve is going to start jerking off any minute now, I know. At the moment, he's got one paw on his crotch, and he's starting to rub himself. It's a gentle rub, but it'll get more intense pretty soon, I know. Steve is nineteen. He's a slim, sexy, tall...
Albion chapter 6
The smoke from ten identical funeral pyres rose up and up, into the cool morning air. High above, in the sky, the sun slid gracefully behind a cloud, as if to impart a sense of gloom on what was happening far below. Sister Victoria, abbess of the...
Crossing the Rubicon ch. 1
_{"Is there life on Mars?" - David Bowie.}_ \*\* [Previously, in Crossing the Rubicon (prologue), Duncan, a 32 year-old Pit Bull, recruited Jack, a 25 year-old Great Dane . . . for an Adventure. Neither of them would call it that. Duncan has found...
The way forward
There were dogs in the tall grass. After the cave, the path widened considerably. On both sides of the path, that tall grass - it was taller than me, so it stood at least six feet high. It was thick, dense, forming a natural wall of green foliage. I...