Aniversary (with audio)
"I really don't like all this get-up." It's our anniversary; four years and counting. My weasel frowns while folding his arms. The only crease in His Grace's trusted personal servant is his frown. "I've been planning this for a long time now," he...
Somebody's Got To Do The Dirty Work - Part 2
Tonight, my luck finally pays out. Kicking me while Fido looks on is clearly not enough for Marcel to get his rocks off. He opens the door to my cell some hours after when I'd normally have been fed, no lantern, no knife, no nothing. Just a set of...
Somebody's Got To Do The Dirty Work - Part 1
Dalmatia at night is a sight to behold. Provided you've got my night eyes, that is. If not, all you can see is torchlight, flickering like an upside down starfield. Moving amongst it, small dots of light move set paths. Guards with torches. One with a...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 11)
**April 15**** th** I've been visiting Paul in hospital as often as I have been able to. At first it was for long stretches of time, as soon as I could get out of class, staying by his side until it got dark and a nurse would ask me to leave. Lately,...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 10)
**Reece. April 5** th That morning I wake up to the smell the coffee. Literally. When I manage to find and shut off my alarm, I can hear that Aiden is already up and walking around. I drop by my little kitchenette to exchange insults before going to...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 9)
Reece. April 4th My parents are sitting in front of me, in the family wagon. Right there, a few feet away. It would be so easy to just say it. Easy being a relative term, of course. But then, after the inevitable argument, Paul could pick me up and...
Runt - Chapter 3 (final)
Day 144 (I'll fill in the damn details later) Something amazing happened today. The wolf I'd been tracking. The bitch. It saved my damn life. I'd been surprised by a corpse after dark. Dumb of me, I guess. I ought not to have gone out...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 8)
**March 31**** st** I spend this Tuesday morning doing laundry, before heading down to the track offices for a simulator session. I climb the stairs at the back of the garage and enter the offices above. I guess they look like any other offices, with...
Runt - Chapter 2
We fed again the next day, but the stench of the dead uprights was getting overpowering, and I feared it might fester the meat and poison it. So I took Runt with me towards valley where we'd spied the black smoke earlier, as that'd take us further away...
Runt - Chapter 1
Day 17 Finally made it into the countryside. The roads were jam packed, so in the end, I left the car and walked. I'm not very familiar in this area, but at least out here I'll have plenty of time to get to grips with everything that has...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 7)
March 29th I get home, pack my racing overalls into the laundry basket where they will be promptly ignored for another week, and plop down in front of the television. I figure I should give Reece a text, just to let him know I solved everything. I can...
Ladder Racing, spring 2019 (Chapter 6)
Paul March 29th The first thing I notice when I wake up is a pair of blue eyes, buried in a mass of dappled black and white, staring back at me. I'm groggy and sleepy still, and not entirely sober. The weight of his head on my shoulder has made my...