I'm not sure where to go with this in the long run. Suggestions are welcome. Maria’s mother was the only family she’d ever met. The first question she could remember asking her was who her father was. “One of the old gods,” her mother replied. “One of the gods the people of this country worshipped before the Spanish came. The gods that demanded offerings of blood.” Maria had always assumed that s ...

At the Heart of the Night by Furlough All within the room looked on with a sense of uneasy anticipation as the small craft's door opened. If asked, none of them would be able to give a very thorough or convincing account of what they were doing there. They knew very little about the affair. All except one. She had been the one to bring them there, after all. But beyond her influence and their own ...

Art by Himmely Warning: This story contains extreme cruelty, strong language, explicit gore and disturbing imagery. Agnes Fairfax was born the 4th of July of the year 1693 AD in the coastal town of Plymouth, which had been recently annexed to the Colony of Massachusetts. From the start her parents knew she wasn’t normal. The birth was both painless and bloodless and she came out of her mother wit ...

Chapter 6:Strange Signs and Breaking Locks Sheriff Tim Keys was a younger man who had served as a deputy in another city some two hundred miles from Pleasant Valley. He was ambitious and also inexperienced from what Tina could ascertain. Nevertheless he seemed like a good man, intent on keeping the town a safe and peaceful place to live. That was Tina’s intent as well. As Tina drove through the g ...

Chapter 45 I knew I’d need to be on my best behavior on this trip, so Friday morning I got up and took my meds, then packed them in my bag. Kara told me to pack casual clothes along with my dress uniform. I’d stay at her home Friday, Saturday and Sunday night and fly home Monday. I wasn’t sure what she meant by “casual”, so I packed jeans and slacks, and a couple of shirts. A car came and picked ...