Death

Edith was just 12 years old when the new king's soldiers attacked her family's hamlet.  It was in reprisal for their support for a pretender to the throne when the old king died childless. She had wandered into the edge of the wood gathering fruit when the soldiers came. She crouched terrified in the thicket of brambles where the blackberries abounded, watching as the soldiers forced everyone into her parents' wood and thatch cottage at sword-point then set it alight. As the flames rapidly spread up the walls and across the roof she covered her ears to shut out the high...

Dating Darkness As she walked home along the shortcut, a dirt path between two derelict blocks of flats she heard footsteps behind her. She turned quickly on her docs kicking up dust, no-one there. Picking up pace she hurried along the path, her shadow in front of her from the full moon tonight. Again she heard the footsteps matching her pace; she stopped, they stopped. Turning around still she seen no-one. “Get a grip if yourself Laura!” she said out loud as she shook her head and carried on walking home. She heard the click of an old style camera, ignoring...

Chapter 1 The man shaped shadow in the neighbor’s yard across the street had not moved in the last 20 minutes but it was entirely possible that Glenn’s eyes were playing tricks on him as his panicked mind worked overtime on his dilemma. It had been two weeks since the contract had been fulfilled by the assassin’s guild of Ar and he had yet to send them their payment, of course, they had not exactly sought him out either for their gold, but he was still extremely worried. Silas had seen what happens to people that do not pay on time;...

When Jack had just finished on the shooting range when Jack how are you able to fire that weapon every one that has fired that weapons has been ether burned from the inside out or they were just killed out right. Jack now noticed that he had been Found out and just said I picked up the weapons and just started to fire. why is their something wrong. jack asked. John was now on the phone to the president say that they had found one of the two Umbra and that he does not know what he is. OK thanks for...