Vampire Dreams

"Valerie's life sucks, but lucky for her, so do her dreams."

~ Prelude ~ The air clung to my skin like a warm, wet t-shirt. Fucking August. Sixteen straight days of 90 plus degrees and 100% humidity. We prayed for rain. We begged for rain. Some asshole called into the local...

Box

"While torn from his beloved by war, a young soldier writes a premonitory song"

What manner of place is this? No light. No sound. I quell the terror rising in my breast and strain to listen, to hear beyond the muffled space into which I am squeezed. Timbers creak. The Earth groans. In the...

Three Wishes

"It's amazing the things one can find at a swap meet!"

Jimmy Laughlin was a just regular kind of guy. There was nothing really remarkable about him. At six foot tall and 165 pounds with sandy-blonde hair and blue eyes he was good looking, but nothing spectacular. He wasn't rich by any means...

A Ligurian Tale

"a story has power to transport"

The day had been long and he was far away. I lay drowsy and warm between soft sheets as we talked over a totally inadequate phone line. My body relaxed and I had no more energy to speak. "Tell me...

Howling at the Moon

"He has the scent and nothing will stop him"

The branches and twigs whip against this alien body as I rush through the trees. My unnatural eyes see through the darkness of the forest, the trees blurring as they fly past, my claws sinking into their bark pulling me...

I’d waited so long because I knew it was the last time. We were in the special place I had created. The sea lapped against the shore and the sun was setting on the horizon. It was casting beautiful warm...

Ghost or Spirit soul

"I Translated this story from one of my own stories"

Tommy had walked her to her door, and she had thanked him once more for the pleasant evening and had given him a warm hug with a lingering kiss. As he had turned and walked away to leave, Jackie had...