Demons of the Past: RETRIBUTION is now on sale (link on my main page)! In our final snippet, The Eonwyl has to really accept some truths about herself... ----- Chapter 21 The Eönwyl: She found herself ducking without knowing why, then dodging to the side and bringing up her arm to parry a blow that drove her to her knees. The Master of the Final Light looked down on her expressionlessly, golden crest chiming ever so slightly as it rippled above his head. Acceptable, the Master thought after a moment, and [ Continue reading... ]
Demons of the Past: RETRIBUTION, Chapter 20
March 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Varan has somewhere to go, and things to learn on the way... ----- Chapter 20 Varan: Take care of yourselves. I thought that with all the intensity I could muster. And you as well, Vick replied from on board The Eönwyl, far across the Zhiraz system. But you need not echo so loudly in my brain! Your power will reach far, Captain; for such trivial distances you need not focus. "All right, I guess I need to learn to judge that kind of thing better," I said aloud to the D-Comm. "Yes," the Eönwyl said, with [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 11
March 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Another look at our adversaries... ----- Chapter 11. She entered, carrying a tray with roast meat and a cup. He looked up and stood, putting the parchment aside. She put the tray down and stood back. He did not sit down. "Why are you doing this, Queen?" The half of her mouth that was visible smiled. "Doing what, my Lord?" "Serving me yourself, when you have innumerable servants who could do it?" "It is what you are owed, my Lord. Those who have achieved what you have might be numbered on the fingers of one hand, and [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 10
March 17, 2019 By 3 Comments
Virginia actually has a pretty good life now... ----- Chapter 10. Virginia skipped a bit as she ran down the aisle of Ayer's Sports. A new jersey, and another ball, and . . . "Slow down, Virginia!" her father called, laughing. "I'm getting too old to keep up with you. And all the stuff will still be on the shelves a few seconds from now." She giggled and forced herself to walk, waiting for Malcolm Jefferson's longer strides to bring him up to her side. "Well, Daddy, I have to keep in shape! No one's slowing down [ Continue reading... ]
Demons of the Past: RETRIBUTION, Chapter 19
March 17, 2019 By 2 Comments
Taelin needs more friends... ----- Chapter 19 Taelin: "Taelin? Taelin Mel'Tasne, what in the Emperor's Name are you doing here, you pictureboy?" Taelin turned around, already feeling the grin starting. "And that has to be Remin Canta, the Imperial warning symbol for 'think once, act twice!'" Canta – only slightly taller than Taelin but outweighing him more than two-to-one with his heavyworlder build – caught up Taelin in an exuberant hug that sent Taelin's breath whooshing from his body. "This can't be an [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 9
March 16, 2019 By 2 Comments
You can't just visit your therapist once... ----- Chapter 9. "How it started?" he repeated. Dr. Hsui nodded her head. "Um . . . You think that's important?" She tilted her head questioningly. "I would think so. That's what led to your current problem, isn't it? In the end analysis?" "Well . . . sort of, I guess." Her eyes weren't exactly brown, they seemed sometimes almost gray, sometimes even touched with green. And I'm distracting myself from the task at hand again. He gave a snort of laughter. "And I'd guess [ Continue reading... ]
Demons of the Past: RETRIBUTION, Chapter 18
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Varan and his friends are finally together on their own ship again... ----- Chapter 18 Varan: Yes. You have become immensely more powerful since last we were together. Vick leaned back and studied me closely. Proportionately even more so than I would have expected. "Really?" At his crest-rattle I held up my hand. "I'm not really doubting you, but I can't feel it, you know. I haven't had much to compare myself to, after all." You – and I, following my own treatment – were improving along a strong, but well-defined, [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 8
March 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Jennifer was meeting with someone my readers have met before... ----- Chapter 8. "Thank you so much for agreeing to see me on such short notice, Mr. Wood," Jennifer said. "No problem," Jason Wood said, waving her inside his office. "Call me Jason, as long as I can call you Jennifer." He gave the trademark slightly-lopsided grin that was familiar to just about everyone on Earth by this point and ran his fingers absently through streaky-blond hair. "I don't think I've ever had a psychologist . . . sorry, psychiatrist . [ Continue reading... ]
Demons of the Past: RETRIBUTION, Chapter 17
March 15, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Well, if our Heroes have made progress, it's probably going to annoy our villain... ----- Chapter 17 Shagrath: I have passed beyond rage and reached uttermost calm, Shagrath noted with a faint surprise. Varan has eluded me again. There should have been no trouble in this mission. He knew Varan was being held by the Zchorada. He had remained there, a prisoner, for months. Admittedly, there was that annoying and not entirely explicable blurring around him, but there was no doubt that it was, in fact, Varan; though the [ Continue reading... ]
LEGEND: Chapter 7
March 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Where there are heroes, there must be Villains... ----- Chapter 7. "Am I . . . alive?" "You are, Lord." Lord? He thought about that. Everything was vague . . . but he remembered anger. A face, a young, determined face filled with certainty and fury. Something about that face made him clench his fists. But he didn't quite remember. . . . "I am your . . . Lord?" A smile, gentle and cold as falling snow. "Now, yes. You have fought long and hard to be here, Lord." Yes. Yes, I remember fighting. The words [ Continue reading... ]
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