Riptide
Jasmine wasn't sure what happened to her when she had been underwater with Trixie and Kala. Only that she'd felt a wrenching sense of vertigo before the pale...
Rising Tides Part 2
 When the sun rose early the following day, it revealed the still bodies sprawled throughout the central pavilion where they had fallen. A few lay with their heads or upper bodies on the large tables,...
Rising Tides Part 1
Manaaki held the hand of Airini, his wife, tightly as they sat cross-legged next to each other on the heaps of sea-colored pillows in the monumental meeting-house for the hui that the... well.... He didn't know what the proper names of the creatures...
Relentless Waves
The constant pounding of the relentless waves and the cry of birds were the only sounds on the remote island. A scene that should have been one of exquisite beauty....
The Days After
"Three... two... one...! Ready or not, here I come!" Liam took his hands off from over his eyes and looked around the back yard for his little sister. The 7-year-old's eyes quickly scanned over the trees, the swing set, his father's tool shed, and the...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 23
"I feel hungry..." I was frozen by my mate's words, staring with the same disbelief that Jill had looking down at what she had done. The violence of what had just occurred. A rescue mission to reunite a family that we thought we had been prepared for...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 24
A shudder ran through my back and wings when I cringed at the sound of bone being ground back in Kim's arm. Knowing that our children could feel the vibrations through her body, I was holding them asleep while the prep work for surgery was done. The...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 27
The sadness of the baleful calls fed into me until I was swept away by the feelings of loss at how much dimmer the world was with the disappearance of the lights gone that day. The smell of my brother fell away when I sat up and swayed in time to the...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 26
"I'm what?" I said, with ears fanned open in surprise. My head tilted so far over in puzzlement that I thought my neck was going to snap. Looking back at the city, with helicopters buzzing over it like flies on rancid meat, I made sure that there were,...
Intervention
Teresa shook her head to test the fit of her carbon-ceramic helmet and the command interface over her right eye. Satisfied that all was in order, she lifted her gaze to eye the city that cannon and missile fire continued to discharge in all directions...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 18
"She's got over a hundred different lacerations the length of her body. Stab wounds to the front of her chest and to her underbelly as well as to both front paws. Four of her claws are broken off, and three more have been chewed to the quick. The...
Hurricane Kim Chapter 17
"Start by showing us where the search has been undertaken." I told Jack the next morning. As we all circled around a table with several maps spread out on its top. Taking up a map marker he pinned it to a spot Northeast of town. Wrapping a string...