“…Shit” As soon as the words leave Greg’s mouth, the man who is telepathically lifting his best friend off the floor, turns his attention towards him, and he looks pissed. The intense stare is accentuated by the glow from his eye. He’s obviously upset by the intrusion of Greg and wants to remove the distractionContinue reading “Chapter 2”
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Chapter 1
Sometimes the world around you is so quiet that you can hear your heart beating in your ears. For people who routinely travel to abandoned locations in the middle of the night, it’s something you become accustomed to. Hell, you almost start preferring it to the “real world”. The still calmness of the night, whileContinue reading “Chapter 1”
Chapter 4
I ignore every traffic law on the way home. As soon as I realized Benny’s corpse is now my one-way ticket to battling a demon, I dropped everything and ran. It was late enough that no one was around the office building, except for the janitor, so running like a madman into the parking lotContinue reading “Chapter 4”
Chapter 3
A week has passed. Seven days. The blood dripping into the vials has a rhythm that could lull you to sleep. At least, would lull you to sleep if you had no idea why the noise was being created in the first place. I have to imagine that any sane person would see the sourceContinue reading “Chapter 3”
Chapter 2
We’ve been sitting in my office for some time now. Benny is still strapped to the table in the other room, knocked out by a sedative, and won’t be awake again for some time, if ever. His life hangs in some balance that I’m not even sure I’m aware of. The veil of mystery surroundingContinue reading “Chapter 2”
Chapter 1
Benjamin Benividez is the type of guy who would routinely go out of his way to help whoever asked for it, and even sometimes when it isn’t asked for. He makes it a point to put everyone around him before him, even if it is as small as getting in line for the buffet atContinue reading “Chapter 1”
Chapter 4
While the old woman remains transfixed staring over his shoulder, Joe dares a look to see what has her so surprised. As he turns, the person who came up behind him steps forward and offers some wrapped candies to the woman, apparently his grandmother, and looks over to make eye contact with Joe. The guyContinue reading “Chapter 4”
Chapter 3
Lawrence Stewart makes his way through the halls of the Rollins’ house with a sense of familiarity of someone who’s been there hundreds of times. His daughter’s relationship with Patty has spanned years, and in that time the families have visited each other often. Lawrence always appreciated the taste Patty and Tom have in theirContinue reading “Chapter 3”
Chapter 1
No one asks a thief to steal anything physical anymore. Over half of all crime these days is done on the Internet. For millenials, the transition to cyberspace has been easy. Including the fact that the bonus of anonymity due to levels of separation between the person committing the crime, and the crime, and theContinue reading “Chapter 1”
Chapter 2
Evelyn Stewart surveys the party from the seating area on the second floor balcony. The party is enormous, as it usually is with the Rollins family, and there is no shortage of kids. Currently, a game of tag is being played across the stone patio, the wooden deck to the right of it, the acreContinue reading “Chapter 2”
