Tag: pieces
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DeathWatch No. 6 – Final Decision
This is Issue #6 of DeathWatch, an ongoing Serial. If you haven’t read any of the earlier pieces, click the Serials link and start at ‘A Beginning’, then go forward. Don’t worry; I’ll wait here. Ready? All right then. Happy Reading! PREVIOUS * * * “Mother?” Jet began, looking startled. “Father?” Immediately, his mother got…
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DeathWatch No. 3 – He Realized Who He Was
This is Issue #3 of DeathWatch, an ongoing Serial. If you haven’t read the first three parts, click that link and go to ‘Ongoing’, find ‘A Beginning’ — start there, so it makes more sense. PREVIOUS * * * Like always, the world was darkness, and then blinding light. Sound came first, like thunder. “No!”…
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DeathWatch No. 1 – What Was It, This Time?
This is Issue #1 of DeathWatch, an ongoing Serial. Click that link to go find DeathWatch, then browse to ‘#0 – A Beginning’ and begin from there, if you need to, or look for the last issue # you remember, and get caught up! Happy Reading! PREVIOUS * * * Kieron jerked awake with only…
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The Lost Quadrille (will you, won’t you)
Today is the birthday of a dear friend of mine, and as such, this is for her. Happy Once-more-round-the-sun, MisParse, RobotGirl, EvilBeej, RadioFreeTesla, GinaDC. * * * Waves rolled in. The tide had been going out, but wasn’t, anymore. Peter Brightman skipped stones from the shore; the ocean’s waves had grown sluggish and half frozen,…
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Full Night
My lungs burned by the time I made it to the Town Hall parking lot; I ran in the open without consideration — thoughts of what could happen to me as the sun finished its descent were too far from my mind to register. When I came around the corner, I saw Cole’s body for…