Literature

This wasn’t the first time I’d worn a foil dress. It was, however, the first time I’d done so in a family-friendly setting.”Vixen!” Santa’s voice rang out above the mall…

Not even when I felt his life energy come into me. I kept going.He pulled me into his condo, deftly kicking the door shut with his foot. His arms gripped…

“This…isn’t possible,” I said.”I don’t know,” said Roman dryly. “Looks pretty possible to me.” “But Seth’s an author. These kinds of magazines don’t care about people like him.” “He’s so…

“Where’ve you been?” asked Roman.I hadn’t landed in Seattle until later the next day. Turns out getting flights from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest can take a little longer than…

I wandered into the hotel, still a bit stunned by the situation I found myself in. Seth was…in Mexico. Presuming Jerome was holding true to his bargain, of course. I…

Maddie claimed that even Seth’s family didn’t know where he was. According to her, he’d really just…vanished. He wasn’t answering his phone. He wasn’t showing up at the bookstore. When…

I woke up in my own bed and found Mei sitting beside it. Not even Nurse Ratched could have startled me that much.Mei was flipping through a magazine and glanced…

“Real,” I gasped out. “That was…real. Seth didn’t give in to temptation. Seth stayed with Maddie.””Maybe,” said One. The instinct to claw his eyes out rose within me, strong and…

It started before I could stop it.I stood in a kitchen, in one of those dreams where I was both watching me and feeling me. The kitchen was bright and…

My initial time with the Oneroi had been a mix of true and false dreams. As time went on – and I really had no way of saying how much…

Really, when you thought about it, what I was going through wasn’t that much different from dying after all. They always said you saw your life flash before your eyes,…

It was 1942, and I was in France.I didn’t want to be in France. I hadn’t wanted to be there for the last fifty years, yet somehow, Bastien kept talking…

I was never entirely sure how much of that dream was true and how much was a lie. That it was a mix, I felt certain. I couldn’t think of…

I woke up next to Seth, and for the space of heartbeat, I thought I truly was waking – waking up from an awful, awful dream about the Oneroi and…

It occurred to me at some point that I wished the Oneroi would only send me false dreams. They hurt – no question – but there was a very, very…

Introduction Historically, the training culture of the Civil Service was weak. It existed mostly for technical tasks that were related to administrative jobs rather than having a focus on leadership…

I was in Seattle. Modern-day Seattle, thankfully. I wanted to be nowhere near the fourth century, even though I dreaded what awful vision the Oneroi would show me now.Not only…

I woke to blackness. Blackness and suffocation.I was in a small room, a box really, crammed in so tightly that my arms wrapped around me and my knees were drawn…

“She couldn’t have!” I exclaimed. “He was with me all night.””Not after the concert ended,” pointed out Roman. “You know, I think that band might really be going somewhere.” Whatever…

Knowing Carter was on the job with Simone made me feel mildly better, but there was something about him that always unnerved me when it came to Seth – and,…