Darkroom
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Dark Kisses III of IV
Black Magic Woman
Copyright @ calibeachgirl and Jim Crowell
All rights reserved, 2011
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Chapter 6: Yesterday’s a memory…
Carolyn wandered around David’s house, familiarizing herself with where everything was. She stood in the hallway for a long while, looking at his medals and then going on the internet to look them up. In all their time together, he had never mentioned his time in the Air Force except in passing. She tried to imagine him in his fighter plane, zooming through the skies high above the earth.
She stopped for lunch, making a ham sandwich and then went back to her explorations. And then, her heart came to a stop as she opened her daughter’s closet and found the ancient bag she recognized in her mother’s house so many, many years ago.
Trembling, now on her knees, she pulled the bag out and opened it, afraid of what she knew she would find. The old book, more sheaves of musty parchment than anything else, lay there and the smell of primeval power rose into the air, causing her to sneeze as the dust settled around her.
She opened the pages, turning them one by one until she found Kendra’s last visitation, marked by the yellow ribbon she always wore in her hair. Carolyn slowly read the incantation and tears formed and began to flow down her now dusty face.
It was all a lie… her love… his love… none of it real, only the result of her own mother’s black magic spells and her daughter’s interference. The yellowed parchments fell to the floor, scattering across the rug as she wept.
She wiped her face with her fingers, gathered up the almost faded spells, carefully put them into the bag, got her keys and drove to her mother’s house.
When the old woman opened the door, she guessed what had happened and when she saw the old carpetbag, she knew. Carolyn’s mother stepped back as her daughter angrily stormed into the house and stood in the middle of the living room.
‘Take it back!’ she screamed, ‘take it back to the way it was!’
The woman looked at her daughter. ‘I can’t. It’s forever, ma chère fille. It cannot be undone. Kendra…’
‘Damn Kendra and damn you. Make this go away.’
‘Je suis désolé, ma chère, s’il vous plait, sit down. I must think.’
‘Mère, make this go away… I don’t care how you do it, just do it. You have ruined my life. My love is built on a lie. What have you done to us?’
‘Kendra wanted you to be happy, chère, that’s all.’
‘But, now I know.’
‘Yes, now you know. Does it matter? Is he not everything you want? Is life so bad with him?’
‘But, now I know and it will never be the same, again. I will always know. I would rather die than live this lie.’
‘Sit. I must think. I will make you some tea.’
The air in the room shimmered and turned grey and nebulous and thick and Carolyn had trouble breathing, there was a tightness in her heart and her soul felt something burning and leaving and an emptiness and then everything went black and she fell to the floor…
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Chapter 7: Memories… I must think of a new life
The dull roar of the vacuum filled the house as Carolyn went from one room to the next, leaving a tell-tale track on the rug until she came to Christy’s office. Entering the room, she was once again reminded of who he was and what he had done. Even now, she was overwhelmed by what he continued to do.
The room was what he was.
Along two walls were floor to ceiling bookshelves containing books and technical journals about satellites and their design, modern military aircraft and the shuttle. Another wall was nothing but windows facing to the south, bringing in warmth during the winter, chilly even for Southern California. The last wall had a twelve-foot long computer counter he made from cabinets from Home Depot and above the computers were framed shuttle mission patches and color photographs of the space station and two of the satellites he had helped build as they orbited the earth. He even had a piece of Skylab.
She looked at his three computers, a far cry from the new laptop he had given her children to use for schoolwork. They had quad cores, Nvidia’s quadro line of graphic cards and eight gigabytes of RAM. Sometimes he had all three working at once as he designed the next generation of satellites and the hum of their cooling fans could be heard in the hallway when he had the door open. Carolyn checked the lock on the room’s closet. Inside, there was a safe that held his two-terabyte external drives when he was at home. Satisfied, she turned back to the room.
Carolyn lifted her duster and started at one end of the bookshelves and worked her way to the other. She noticed a new book and pulled it out. ‘Western Pacific Diesels, Passenger and Freight, Vol. II’ was still shrink-wrapped. She was surprised. The book was the first indication that his interests had broadened past aerospace. He had taught her that word: ‘aerospace’.
She put it back and finished dusting the books and then the framed patches and photographs. Taking the special cloth he had given her, she wiped down the computer flatscreens and then closed the door.
Carolyn walked down the hallway to his bedroom and turned the vacuum back on, running it across the carpet and under his bed. She hit a pair of shoes, got on her knees, pulled them out and put them into the closet. She smiled, imagining what his wife would think… if he had a wife. She couldn’t understand why he was still single. From everything she knew about him, he was prime husband material. Why was he still single? She knew he wasn’t gay, over the last two years she had seen his occasional girlfriends but she had also seen him sit quietly in his office, just staring out the window like he was missing something in his life… something or someone.
She walked back into the hallway and dusted Christy’s military awards hanging on the wall, wondering if he would ever tell her the story behind them as she carefully dusted. Probably not… her employer was a private man and kept to himself.
Occasionally, though, he stayed out all night, returning the next day, his clothes smelling of perfume. Either the woman changed her perfume or he was dating several women, although not regularly. She shook her head. What he did was his own business, she knew but, for some reason, it bothered her… it depressed her. Every time she looked at him, she felt there should be something there, like when you see something out of the corner of your eye but when you turn, it’s gone and you wonder what it was.
She looked at her watch. He would be home soon and she needed to start dinner. He had given her free reign to cook what she wished and while she wanted to give him the healthiest meal possible, she also wanted him to enjoy the food. Tonight, there would be grilled salmon with dill sauce, baked potatoes, a small salad and homemade peach cobbler. The way to a man’s heart…
Carolyn remembered the day he offered her the position. They had met at Islands in Manhattan Beach for lunch. She ordered the fish taco and he the Greek salad. ‘Are you honest?’ he asked, smiling, ‘because if you aren’t, that’s a deal breaker.’
She was taken aback, never expecting such a question.
‘Yes, sir, my mother brought me up to follow the Good Book.’
‘Can you cook?’
‘Yes, sir, I can, very well, mainly southern and Louisiana French.’
‘That sounds interesting. How soon can you start? The position is live-in.’
‘Oh, I didn’t know. The agency didn’t mention that.’
‘Will that be a problem? Husband at home?’
‘Uh, no, sir, I’m a widow but I have two teenagers.’
Their food arrived and he asked for another iced tea.
Carolyn sat there, looking at him as he was trying to make up his mind. Would the advantages of a live-in housekeeper outweigh the inherent problems two
teenagers would bring? She wondered if he could see the desperation in her eyes. She still wondered if she made the short list because of her husband’s death in Afghanistan.
‘I’ve got room. They’re not noisy, are they?’
‘No, sir. Michael plays basketball, though. Will that be a problem?’
‘I can put up a backboard on the garage but nothing after eight o’clock. Do you have dependable transportation? You would have to do the usual… shopping, dry cleaning, things like that.’
Later, she found out he decided to buy her another car. Her ten-year-old car, in his mind, wasn’t dependable enough for his needs.
‘Well, it’s not much to look at but it runs OK.’
‘When can you start?’ He watched her eat the taco.
‘Would Saturday be all right? We’re staying with my mother. When I lost my office job, I lost the house.’
‘What happened to the furniture? Are you going to need anything else?’
‘It’s all in storage.’
‘OK, when we’re finished here, you can follow me over to the house, it’s about a mile or so from here and I’ll give you a set of keys and you can arrange to have what furniture you need delivered. I’ll give you a credit card you can use.’
‘I’m hired?’ The look of relief that passed over her face was something he vowed never to forget.
‘Yes.’
Carolyn remembered the rest of the day although at the time it seemed to pass by in blur. She followed him to a quiet neighborhood. The house was on a tree-lined street, the venerable Chinese Elms giving it a shady look that was missing from most of Los Angeles.
True to his word, he showed her the house, the pool, gave her the card and the keys and said, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow. Make yourself at home. Have the furniture delivered by Saturday morning. Here’s my cell number if you have any problems. Any questions?’
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She looked at her watch. Kendra and Michael would be home from school, soon enough. Kendra was going to graduate soon and attend UCLA as part of a four-year ROTC program in aerospace studies. Carolyn smiled. Christy’s influence the last two years had given her daughter the impetus to study hard for the opportunity and he had tutored her nightly in physics. He had offered to use his influence for an appointment to the Air Force Academy but Carolyn wanted her daughter to stay home as long as possible and he had respected her wishes.
He bought Kendra a sunlight silver 2006 Miata convertible as a graduation present, saying she had to get to the campus, somehow. Carolyn was sure there was a twinkle in his eye when he handed the keys over and yet, there was a sadness, too, as if he was hoping for more… some intangible that remained missing.
‘Mom, we’re home!’
‘I’m in the kitchen. I need a little help, today. I’m running behind and he’ll be home soon enough.’
‘Be right there, Mom.’ Kendra dropped her book bag in her bedroom and washed her hands before setting the table.
Michael took the vacuum cleaner outside and emptied it into a black plastic bag. ‘Anything else, Mom?’ he asked.
‘No… we’ll eat as soon as he’s home.’
The strong rumble of Christy’s green Challenger rattled the house as he pulled into the drive and the car door slammed just moments before Carolyn opened the back door, iced tea in hand. She took his laptop case and carried it into his office. Returning, she began to bring food to the table as Christy was speaking quietly to Michael about next year’s basketball team.
‘Watch out, they’re hot,’ she said as she put the plate of potatoes down. Kendra passed the sour cream around the table and then the bacon-bits.
‘This salmon is wonderful,’ Christy said as he scooped some cream onto his potato. ‘Is there any butter?’
‘I’m sorry, I forgot,’ said Kendra, moving to the refrigerator and pulling out a new stick and putting it onto a saucer.
‘That’s all right, young lady. How’s that airplane you’ve been building?’
‘It’s almost finished. Would you like to see?’
‘Sure… after dinner OK?’
Kendra blushed, happy with the attention he gave her. ‘Yes… thank you.’
‘Uhummm… more salad, Mr. Christy?’
‘I’m good, Mrs. Smith, thank you. I’m trying to save room for dessert. You mentioned cobbler this morning?’
‘Yes, sir. Peach, from my mother’s recipe.’
‘Remind me to thank her next time I see her.’ Christy put the last spoonful of potato into his mouth and then cut up the skin.
‘Michael, any chance shooting some hoops, later? Maybe, a game of horse?’
‘I’d love to, Mr. Christy, but I’ve got a test tomorrow.’
‘Studies, first. Maybe, next time… ah, here’s dessert.’ Carolyn put a large bowl of peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream in front of him. ‘You know, Mrs. Smith, if it weren’t for that Canadian exercise program, I’d weigh a million pounds by now.’
She put her hand on his shoulder and then hastily withdrew it, surprised at her unconscious gesture of familiarity. Christy looked up at her, searching her face, while she wondered what possessed her to do such a thing. She stepped away and turned toward the sink, looking out the kitchen window toward the setting sun, her hand to her mouth. There was something electric when she touched him and she knew he felt it, too for he had moved his own hand to hers and held it, if only for a moment.
Carolyn could feel his stare… oh, God, what had she done? Play it off…
Still looking out the window, she asked, ‘Anyone for more dessert?’
There was no answer and when she turned around, he was gone. A worried look of confusion crossed her face and Kendra just shrugged her shoulders.
Later, the door to his office was closed and she recognized Vivaldi’s Four Seasons playing. It was ‘Summer’, its thunderstorms echoing through the room and it matched the turmoil in her soul. Why had she touched him, she didn’t know and it was causing a painful twinge to burn through her heart. How could she look at him in the morning?
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The next morning, Kendra was quickly frying some pancakes for Christy’s breakfast as he sat down. ‘Mom’s not feeling too well,’ she said to his raised eyebrow as she watched the bubbles form in the batter.
The disappointment was obvious in his voice. Kendra looked at him. She had heard that same voice at school, between her love-struck classmates. ‘Ummm, yeah, she’s not good at all, probably be in bed all day.’
‘Maybe, I should stay home. She might need…’
‘No, no, no… I don’t think it’s that bad, maybe a 24 hour thing, you know, like the flu or something.’
‘Oh?’ he asked, putting his fork into another pancake.
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Carolyn ran as hot a shower as she could stand and stepped in, relaxing immediately as the hot water streamed over her dark curly hair, plastering it to her head. Still wet, she shivered while the tub filled, her mind churning with emotions, wondering why after all this time, she was becoming attracted to him. She sprinkled her favorite bath salts into the water and lowered herself in the steaming water, the heat taking away much of her physical ache.
David strode down the hallway and found her room dark and vacant. Steam that smelled like fresh cut roses escaped from under the bathroom door. He smiled involuntarily, inhaling deeply and tapped on the door. ‘Mrs. Smith?’
‘Just a moment,’ she said, quietly.
He heard the splashing of water. ‘You OK?’
There was silence… and more splashing. He tried to imagine a naked Carolyn. He was startled by the vivid image that flashed before his eyes. ‘You didn’t drown, did you?’
‘No,’ came a muffled response. ‘I’ll be out in a minute.’
‘I need to talk to you.’
There was a long pause. Finally, the door cracked open, Carolyn freshly scrubbed in a high-necked green robe. ‘Yes?’
His eyes trailed down the delicate line of her cheek, perfect for kissing, her lips full
and perfect for even more kissing.
He had brought her a large box of See’s candies. Carolyn was stunned. Christmas and her birthday… those were the gift-giving days… not just a gift for no reason.
‘I was, uh… um… Kendra said you weren’t feeling well and I, uh… well, here.’
‘Thank you, Mr. Christy, I don’t know what to say.’
‘Are you feeling better?’
‘Yes, thank you.’ She looked at the heavy box on her lap.
‘Good. Get dressed. We’re going to dinner. Didn’t I see a blue dress in there, somewhere?’
‘Uh, huh… but, Mr. Christy…’
‘I won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Say, twenty minutes?’
‘All right… thank you.’
He walked to his room, whistling Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’.
They watched the sun set along the Pacific horizon from the Charthouse’s window. On short notice, it was as romantic as possible. She was wearing the off-the-shoulder royal blue evening dress and a single strand of pearls from her wedding. With her high heels and her shiny black ringlets, she looked like an ebony princess. He hadn’t taken his eyes off her since they arrived. She was beautiful. How had she lived with him for two years and he never noticed?
‘This is a beautiful place,’ Carolyn said, looking out the window as the sky slowly darkened.
‘Yes, it is. I come here when I want to celebrate.’
‘Is that what tonight is? A celebration?’ How many women has he brought here? she wondered, nervously, a tight smile on her lips.
‘I’d like to think it is.’ Christy leaned forward. ‘You’re the first woman I’ve ever brought here… so, I… yes, it’s a celebration.’
‘Oh…’ She blushed, feeling the hot rush of blood flood her cheeks.
He blushed and reached for a piece of bread to draw attention away from his face. ‘Anything you’d like.’
‘OK, I’ll have the lobster, since it’s a celebration. Thank you. Oh, look! A pelican!’
Christy turned to the window but it was too late and the large seabird was gone. ‘Missed it. Maybe, we’ll see another, some day.’ He drank a sip of his iced tea.
‘You’ve been drinking a lot of tea, lately. Doesn’t it keep you up, all night?’ Then, she put her hands to her mouth, realizing what she had just said to her employer.
He laughed. ‘Well, you’re the first woman to ever ask me that. I don’t know how to answer. I’ll take the Fifth.’
Carolyn was a delightful dinner companion and slowly drew him out, asking him about his time in the Air Force and listened for the rest of the evening as he relived his time in the front seat of his Eagle, swooping his hand across the tabletop.
He found himself talking about nothing in particular, trying his best to make her laugh.
David was surprised how much he had adjusted to life with her family.
‘I had a wonderful time, Mr. Christy. Thank you so much for tonight. It was magical. I’ll never forget it.’
‘It was my pleasure, Mrs. Smith. I hope you feel better, now.’
‘Good night. I’ll have breakfast ready, tomorrow.’
‘Good night, Mrs. Smith. Pleasant dreams.’
His footsteps sounded in the hallway as he walked to his own room. She threw a brief but intense look toward her bedroom door and waited. Nothing… for one moment she hoped he would return and take her in his arms… but, nothing.
Carolyn unzipped her dress until it lay open and dropped to the floor. She fell back on the bed and closed her eyes but her body felt hot and unsettled. She looked in the mirror, catching a glimpse of her breasts, still high and proud, even at her age. She touched one briefly, felt it tauten and dreamed it was his mouth, his hand hot to her skin.
As her nipple jutted away from her breast against her fingers, she moved her hand away, down to her panties and peeled away the silky layer of cloth until it slid down over her knees and off the bed to the floor.
Carolyn closed her eyes. Her head lay on the soft, white pillow, her stomach curved inward accentuating the line of her hips and the mound of curly black hair between her legs. There was a stirring, a feeling inside her there, and although she tried, she could not stop the image of the two of them, intertwined, lying together, making love on her bed.
She listened to the quiet and then, something… she looked at the ceiling. Nothing… it was nothing. She glanced around her room, trying to make things out in the darkness. The reflection of her body stretched out sensually, her darkness in sharp contrast the white sheets of her bed. She tried to relax but her hand strayed between her legs, touching, feeling, probing… it had been so long. She arched her back as her hand worked itself deeper until she had to muffle her moans with her other hand.
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The wilds of DarkFyre Dale were a raw, wretched place, and never more so than in the grip of winter. For the first few days they traveled mostly through the open, sweeping meadows and plains of the western highlands. During the all too brief summer months the highlands were an entirely different place characterized by tall, lush green grasses swaying in the cool wind, speckled with notes of color from wildflowers. They teamed with small, secret life. Bees buzzing, drone-like and purposeful,...
Rain fell in a sporadic icy deluge. No true storm, it was nonetheless a persistent enough spattering of ice and water to make the battleground a wet, slushy mess of melting ice, frigid wind, and watered down puddles of mud and fresh blood steaming in the dawning light. It was miserable conditions, even for the already miserable enterprise of war waging. But if the barbaric Haruke cared at all, they gave no sign. The warriors were far from the plains of their people, having journeyed east and...
Wordless, Silmaria burst into motion, springing forward to dash down to her burning home. Or tried to, at least. Before she’d gone two strides, Lord Rael’s hand shot out and grabbed her by the wrist in a grip like steel. He yanked her back toward him and growled softly into her ear, “Don’t be a fool. We don’t know what’s down there. Follow me and stay quiet! Keep low.” Though it galled her to be slow at all right then, Silmaria gave a reluctant nod and followed her Lord’s lead. Rael took...
When Silmaria came back to herself she was lying on a soft, large, comfortable bed. A bed that size should have been draped in silks and finery, but instead was covered in simple, practical sheets of cotton and a heavy, warm wool comforter. The glow of a fire and a number of candles cast shifting shadows and orange light against the ceiling and walls. Silmaria fought not to panic, she had no idea where she was. The Gnari girl sat up to get a better view of the room. It was a simple and...
DarkFyre Chapter Eighteen The next day, Rael was a busy man. Silmaria sat back and watched him with a sort of amused fascination. After a long night of rest, Rael was renewed and overflowing with energy and robust health. They’d discussed with disappointment how much of the bear meat was going to go to waste as its spoiling became eminent, but Rael gave a good effort at consuming as much of it as possible that morning. Silmaria was shocked and very nearly appalled, and couldn’t quite keep...
The shop was claustrophobic. Despite the blustery cold outside, the room was oppressively hot. Four sooty wall sconces cast off a weak glow. The rest of the light came from two stone hearths in opposite corners of the room banked high with logs, radiating uncomfortable warmth. Several braziers were set around the room, adding to the heat. They threw off a heavy shroud of incense and scented smoke, cloyingly sweet. Behind the sweetness of the incense lingered a pervasive mustiness, the smell of...
Rael sat at the long, ornate dinner table in the main dining hall with his long legs stretched out before him, leaning back in his chair as he rolled a small apple around in his hand. Selm, his whiskers newly trimmed and looking determined, watched him quietly, waiting for the young Nobleman to speak. The Knight had fully expected to have some distractions when he arrived home. He hadn’t been to IronWing Manor in a long time, and so much was left undone from his father’s death. He’d even found...
DarkFyre Chapter Fifteen The next day was lost to the blizzard. They spent the better part of it huddled together in their blankets, pressed in close, as near to their small fire as they dared. The stone cliff was a forbidding face of rock and ice, and even with the nearby fire, the ice held strong, glittering with stubborn beauty in the firelight. The blizzard outside was a wild, angry thing. The winds were a deep, soulful wail echoing through the canyons of the mountains. Very briefly, Rael...
In the late morning hours the sun shone bright and glorious on Trelling’s Rest. The overcast clouds of yesterday’s snowfall had fled in the face of a clear and temperate day, the sort of mild and cheerful day DarkFyre Dale rarely saw this deep into winter. The snow underfoot gleamed pristine white under the sunshine, a blanket of innocence and purity cast over the countryside, a beautiful thing to behold. The Bear’s Maw was Trelling’s Rest’s main gate and the site of the majority of traffic in...
A dark savage fantasy world, where the world faces it's ruination at the hands of demons and old dark gods. A world where might makes right and the strong prey on the weak. The sun hangs large and blood red in a sickly yellow sky. The land slowly turns to dust, life and vegetation growing sickly and weak. Monsters prowl the wilds, twisted and deformed, attacking travelers and towns. At the center of this world sits the Hellmouth and the great city that surrounds it, keeping the wilder demons...
FantasyWelcome to Darkwood, a nice city in the mountains, a hour north of Capital City. It was a nice place, surrounded by high peaks in a green valley. The local college was well known for its metallurgy department but also for their football team. But behind the facade of this this nice town not everything was as as it looked on the first look. So let us follow the stories of the people of Darkwood and their daily life. Characters: The Smith Family Andrew, 43-year old father of three, working as a...
You look up at the looming structure of the Darktail Academy, the school in which you will be enrolled for the remainder of your demon adolescence. Your tail flickers in excitement, you've heard tales of Darktail from your friends and older sister before. It was the perfect place for a budding demon; deception, fighting skills, magic, and much more were taught here at the highest level, it was also the perfect place to get your cock wet. You grin, your days as an imp are over, years of torment...
FantasyThis story is loosely based on the PC game Darklands, released in 1992. It's Europe in the year 1400, and you're an adventurer, or a party of adventurers, out to fulfill a personal quest or simply seeking fame and fortune. You may choose to make a name for yourself in any number of ways, for good or for evil. 15th century Europe is fraught with dangers, God and His saints can intervene in the lives of mortals in dramatic ways, alchemy is real and heresy and witchcraft lurk around every corner....
FantasyMorrigan smiled at Lilith, who was enjoying her new freedom, granted to her by the most unusual of events, which capped off a wonderful series of encounters with people that she'd not even known had existed, and now they thought about their future. "So, What are you thinking?" Morrigan asked, as she noticed Lilith going through a album of pictures taken during her journeys through the multiverses. "If I was able to do my own seducing then, I can see a good few souls that cry out for my...
Even as the evening crept on the heat was palpable, a smothering blanket of energy sapping misery, dry and acrid. The only reprieve from the heat was the caress of the wind sweeping down the crags and valleys and rock formations, swirling along the brief stretches of flatlands that reached out between the red stones, or whipping along jagged, flinty corners of standing stones, clustered cliffs, and miniature mountains. The wind whistled a plaintive lament through the land’s many cracks and...
NovelsThe inn’s stillness and quiet was unnerving, the blackness of the halls and common room below an ominous contrast to the noise and bustle and light that should have been coming from downstairs this early into the night, just a few bare hours after sundown. Even with the flickering light of the candles at their bedside, the dark outside their room was so complete it left even her sharp eyes momentarily unable to pierce the gloom. The smell told her the danger first. Silmaria took a deep breath,...
NovelsDarkFyre Chapter Twenty-One Rael sank back into the large brass tub sitting in the middle of their room. The room’s furnishings were modest, but the bed was large enough for them both to settle into comfortably as long as Silmaria curled in tightly to him, and the room was clean and tidy. The bedding was simple cotton spun, with a thick wool cover and soft, fresh straw stuffed into the mattress. There was a small ash wood table and two small chairs set under a shuttered window. A patterned rug...
NovelsSilmaria’s heart beat violently, thudding unpleasantly in her breast. As the men stepped into their small camp she swallowed and fought to ignore the rising tide of panic threatening to drown her entirely. There were half a dozen of them, all armed and stepping with the confident, easy swagger of men who were comfortably acquainted with a great many kinds of violence. Dark eyes roved over her. She saw a flare of desire here, a glint of lewd interest there. Mostly, they looked curious, and...
NovelsDarkFyre Chapter Seventeen The bear pelt was heavy and warm. Strange, to think that the pelt and meat were keeping them alive and comfortable after the bear had nearly killed him. There was a sort of grim irony in that, he supposed, but it was lost in the relief of being alive, the exhaustion of his ordeal, and the wonder of the woman in his arms. Rael stared down at Silmaria. She slept for now, a deep, peaceful sleep with her face pressed to his solid chest, one small hand resting on his...
NovelsDarkFyre Chapter Fifteen The next day was lost to the blizzard. They spent the better part of it huddled together in their blankets, pressed in close, as near to their small fire as they dared. The stone cliff was a forbidding face of rock and ice, and even with the nearby fire, the ice held strong, glittering with stubborn beauty in the firelight. The blizzard outside was a wild, angry thing. The winds were a deep, soulful wail echoing through the canyons of the mountains. Very briefly, Rael...
NovelsThe mild weather snuck away in the night, setting the stage for their departure, to be a much more bitterly cold and uncomfortable affair. After sundown the temperature dropped until snow fell in a scintillating curtain of white, crystal-soft flakes. They danced along the wind, dazzling and fleeting in the moonlight as they did somersaults and dizzying spiral dives before collecting in a graceless mass grave all along the docks, their frantic, joyful celebration of cold and movement and life...
NovelsThe next morning was mild, if not as clear and sunny as the day before. Clouds hung in a haze over the sky, drab and dreary and promising cold and snow to come, but all in all it was a favorable day for the middle of a Dale winter. Rael was sitting against a wall in an alley mouth, studying the grand building across the street. He was on the opposite end of Trelling’s Rest, right in the heart of the Palace District, watching the Hall of Valor, home and seat of power for the Knight Brotherhood...
NovelsNote: Sword is a recurring character in the Darkswords series. He is also a character in the game Time Stalkers, which is owned by SEGA and CLIMAX ENTERTAINMENT. In this case, Sword is from Darkswords. The SRU elements belong to Bill hart. Guess I got bored and decided to see what would happen if they crossed paths. Darkswords/SRU Crossover: The Fish That Got Away. Sword, your not-so-typical half elf, half vampire adventurer, always seemed to be in the right place at the right...
Andra screamed into her ballgag. She screamed as my whip hit her beautiful ass again. She'd been screaming herself hoarse since I started working my way down her back with the horsewhip. She screamed when I hauled her up by her bound tits, her wrists tied to them and they tied to a pulley fixed to the ceiling. Her ankles were tied together with cruel handcuffs, almost too tight for her. Her big toes were tied with wire to a D-ring in the floor and her head was covered in a gag and...
Dark Meat Diet! Chapter 1 LoadSwapping Fun! TJ Ryder http://www.bullsnboys.com/ Being a white boy of Dutch descent growing upin a 95% Zulu country, its difficult when I visit my grandfather'sfarm in the country because, well, for several reasons. Like all white boys (and girls) who went to Mugabo publichigh school, I'm part of the first generation of postapartheid teenagers who grew up and was raised in a countrydominated by black...
Categories: MC, FF+, modification, reluctant.????????? ****????????? Note_1: The below story contains adult material. Do not continue reading if you are under age 18 or are offended by such material, this is a pure fantasy. All the other characters are pure fiction.Note_2: the story is based on Unseen_Unread picture story that can be found here.Note_3: Darkheart, shockwave and Lady Psy are used with the artist's permission.????????? ****????????? Chapter 1: fun and games.Michelle...
"I'm not pretty, not a bit-- Thin and sallow-pale; When I trudge along the street I don't need a veil: Yet I have one fancy hit. Jess and Jill can trill and sing With a flute-like voice, Dance as light as bird on wing, Laugh for careless joys: Yet it's I who wear the ring." -Christina Rossetti, A Ring Posy With an awkward jolt, eyes wild, visage pained, the Darkbitch awakened and searched frantically among the tangle of bodies scattered around the huge, disarrayed, semiunduvetted...
"Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie." -Edgar Allan Poe, The City in the Sea It was hard to see the faint reflection of her face in the window...
"Justice with change of interest learns to bow, And what was merit once is murder now: Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change, are virtues made or crimes." -Daniel Defoe, A Hymn to the Pillory Each section of the patchwork school building that constituted Darkbitch Academy started classes at a different time. The area where Miss Rhea was rather roughly dragging her student Amy to the nurses' office would soon be filled with a bustle of happy, shapely,...
"Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange." -William Shakespeare, The Tempest As she recovered her balance from Miss Rhea's rude shove inside, Amy cast a slightly bewildered gaze around the Nurses' Office. During orientation, Lady Akiko had discussed it only in vague generalities. Among the students it was the subject of various...
"It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode Crouched within a coppice next to the palace, a blue-haired girl tensely waited. Her deep cerulean eyes slowly and methodically scanned the scene before her, betraying absolutely no emotion. The scene reflected in them was static: the hulking...
_"Wild roses from the plains, that made hearts tender, All the funny circus silks Of politics unfurled, Bartlett pears of romance that were honey at the cores, And torchlights down the street, to the end of the world." -Vachel Lindsay, _Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan_ Jade staggered backwards, slack-jawed, staring blankly, pushed into near catatonia by the sudden memory of her sin. She had been the cause of the Darkbitch's justified anger, and she had directed it onto an innocent boy...