Dark.....

Pitch black...

And dangerous

Reggie lifted the brim of his netted steel helmet, peering down to the ground below. The smells of flak, sulfur and burning debris clung to the back of his throat. His blue eyes burned from the heat that whipped his soot streaked face while tendrils of his ashes blonde hair clung to his sweaty forehead. His huge blue dragon soared high over the battlefield w...

No one ever knew of the creatures that dwelled beneath the Lake Greywater, nor did they know why they did the things they did. They were horrifically misunderstood, demonized by people intent on wiping out the magic of the world so that everyone would be equal as they proclaimed each and everyday.

And it was the children and the young generation who had suffered the most.

The creatures of the l...

Little one with hair of flaming red

Your mother’s crowning glory upon your head

Born of the waters true and fair

So sing the spirits of the air

The roaring seas become your home

All belongs to you, the shells, the weeds all drifting in the foam

O son of the sea, your father returns

The flag of his ship unfurled

I know that he cannot wait to be,

Part of your world...

12/07/1941

How do I begin to describe what I have witnessed? Destruction and terror, the likes of which have never been seen. Arizona still smokes, the black billows rising high into the sky while the battered and shredded flag outside the hospital hangs at half mast. The sound of TAPS echos from the airplane hanger across the island. I in my dress blues and Maggie in her black dress now look out...

Yonah stared at the black and white photos and files that littered the desk in his office. Once again they had clues but no leads. The son of a bitch had gotten away....again. This hadn’t been the first time....but he hoped it would be the last. A knock at the door had silenced his brooding.

“Come in,” he said.

The door creaked open. It was Levi, quiet and timid Levi who everyone had tended to ...

Deacon was eager as ever to get to the school. Days and days of waiting had made him eager with anticipation to attend. The entrance exams had been murder, all that studying and cramming well into the night and worrying about whether or not he could go had worried him. But now that he was here with the others, the excitement was beginning to reach fever pitch.

“First years come this way!” Their ...

They had done it.

No one said they would be able to do it but they had done it.

That long, hot slog up the hill in the Georgia heat had been murder, but there was no way that the girls were going to chicken out. Not when the last wish of Rory’s grandfather had been to have his ashes carried to the top of Curahee and scattered in the river near the mountain.

Rory, Tess, Katie, Alex and Sunshin...

The snow and frost now gone.

Winter’s freezing touch had died away.

Morrigan could at last rest. Summoning the spirits to rid the land of the icy cold and frost had drained her, leaving her exhausted, but the work had been worth it.

The trees could bloom and the dirt could soften. Birds could return to build their nests and the rabbits and hairs could leave their burrows. The smell of fresh a...

Indira was far too nervous. There was no way....NO WAY that Frank would go for her. Really, how stupid could she think she was. Here he was, a proud and stubborn Marine who had just saved the lives of his fellow soldiers, but what was she? A nurse who tended to the endless rounds of wounded who came in day after day, her clothes stained and bloody from treating the wounded.

He won’t need you.......