…darkness… Alone. I… …became. And light burst forth, shards of warmth and color…and something more. As the universe exploded into being, I felt my self, many times, echoing and mirrored as time and I expanded and scattered. ~~~~~ Drifting… A gathering of warmth, striving to become more, joining, growing closer…again…and again…and again… ~~~~~ I smelled him and slid forward. Crawling, scales rasping against the hot sand, m...

"Are you interested in ancient temples?" she asked. Arthur looked up from his late lunch at the small Welsh country pub outside Pembroke. It was the thirteenth of August. The Summer sun had warmed the afternoon nicely, and the patio table he sat at was in a quiet corner. On the table next to his meal was an open book. She was beautiful, was his first thought. The kind of dignified British beauty that instantly turned an A...

Lady Catherine and her maid trotted their horses through the mist which enveloped the Phoenix Park. She rode with the poise demanded of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Despite the brutal murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the British Cabinet minister with responsibility for Irish affairs and his chief civil servant, Thomas Henry Burke only a few months previously in the summer of 1882, Lady Catherine was not afraid. She had...

The dreams began exactly three months before, on the eve of Ostara. They were sultry, salty wisps that wrapped around Mary’s subconscious while she slept, filling her mind with images of craggy cliffs topped with grasses that waved in the briny breeze and terminated in the breaking waves of a cold, grey sea. Sounds assaulted her, echoing between canyons of rock, sounding like honking or barking. In the roiling waters, sle...

Melissa sighed as she sipped her cocktail. “I so envy my kids. It was absolutely the best sex of my life – and it will never happen again.” Terry lifted her eyebrows. “You’re sending both of the twins? Is Henry OK with that?” Melissa smirked. “It was Henry’s idea. He proposed their names down at the club. But I still wish it were me instead of them.” Terry looked wistful, then blushed and looked down. “He wouldn’t take me...

It was around half-past-eleven as Judith left her cottage and set off for the church. The full moon shone brightly in the cloudless sky, and she had no difficulty in finding her way. For reasons no-one could quite remember, the church was situated on a small hill well outside the village itself, and the last part of the journey took her down a narrow lane overshadowed by high hedges of blackthorn. She tried to ignore the...

The campfire blazed brightly in the cool night, it's warmth radiating to the men surrounding it and helping to keep the chill off. "Getting pretty cold tonight, boys," announced Henri from the edge of the darkness. "Keep that fire going." "Yeah, Boss," replied Bucky. "I"ll make sure of it." "You're a good lad, Bucky Boy," Charlie piped in. "You make sure my balls don't freeze tonight, eh?” "Yeah, you can keep my balls war...

Dear Reader, Nobody believed our story. But the events I relate to you below really happened. It may seem fantastic, but truth is always stranger than fiction. You can make up your own mind—I only want to set the record straight before—well, you’ll see… Our journey started one inauspicious evening almost five years ago; the seven of us unaware, as we embarked on our incredible adventure, that nothing would ever be the sam...

Philip Westmont woke groggily to the sound of his roommates running up the steps to their second-floor flat. As usual, when he awoke on All Saint’s Day, his body was covered in sweat and who knows what else. He pulled the sheet tightly up to his armpits and waited for them to burst into his room. The three of them were still more than slightly drunk. William – known to everyone as Billie – was dressed in what had been a S...

Still and silent stream in the midnight darkResting amongst the flax is the night sky beauty herselfQuenching a thirst from the sweet, still watersWinds that whisper vows and carry the faintest of spellsHer eyes are deep pools of wintery waterPlaying in the shallows feels safe, any deeper and you risk drowningAn otherworldly beauty emerges from her secret streamSuch an ethereal maiden has never before been seenRushing to...