Ever After: Chapter 5

"Pleading with your Sugar Momma gets expensive..."

Passing under the great archway, I muttered a small thanks. It was easy to get back into the Imperial section during shift change. Holding a box full of nothing, I prayed my stomach didn’t give me away. Thankfully, as I...

Descent Into Darkness

"Arianna, the woodland fairy, succumbs to a warlock's magic in an attempt to save her kind."

For over a thousand years, the growth of urbanization and industrialization has all but destroyed many forests around the world.  The more humans advanced, the more they destroyed the world around them.  Many woodland type creatures have either been trapped...

Ever After: Chapter 1

"A detective gets more than he bargains for"

The door handle was at the same time a feat of artistry and a golden warning. Delicately detailed, it was shaped in the image of a goddess holding aloft a plate. Every bit of her gown was shaped to be...

Fate into Doubt Won’t Go

"A cynical PI finds if choice can survive and love can bloom in a deterministic, data-rich future."

Choosing a lover by chance was so retro, so twenty-first century, but to hell with it. Sometimes you gotta roll the dice.By all outward appearance, she was a natural winner. Lips that could start or end wars. Hyperbolic curves that...