Literature

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in a dream. That’s what happened to me. I opened my eyes, head…

“You called us together for biblical porn?”Hugh turned away with disinterest from where the vampires and I huddled around my kitchen table. Barely a bruise showed on him anymore. Putting…

Carter picked up a book and leafed through it lazily. His stringy blond hair had been stuffed under a backward baseball cap, and his flannel shirt appeared to have seen…

“Man, if Jerome had threatened to stash me somewhere, I wouldn’t be out snooping around.””I’m not snooping. I’m just speculating.” Peter shook his head and took the cap off a…

Hospitals are creepy places, cold and sterile. A true reminder of the tenuous nature of mortality. The thought of Hugh here made me nauseous, but I squelched the feeling as…

Jesus. What had I been thinking? I had to work today. Not only that, I had to work in ten minutes. I had no time for “real” clothing or makeup….

Abstract Currently, the retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) is not only well-recognized among the UK citizens, although its branches are well established across the globe with many product categories available….

Returning to Queen Anne, I discovered I still had a lot of evening left. Unfortunately, I had nothing to do. A succubus without a social life. Very sad. It was…

Paige was all smiles when I went in for the early shift the next day.”Nice work with Seth Mortensen,” she told me, glancing up from the neatly stacked paperwork on…

I turned and saw Roman sitting over in a corner of the small lobby. He looked striking in a deep green turtleneck, his dark hair brushed away from his face….

I woke up the next day, determined to go see Erik and get the truth about vampire hunters. Then, as I was brushing my teeth, I remembered yesterday’s other crisis.Seth…

“For someone who just orchestrated a murder, you’re kind of overreacting.”Overreacting? In the last twenty-four hours, I’d had to endure virgins, scary vampires, murder, accusation, and humiliation in front of…

“Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.”My immortality notwithstanding, the sentiment was sincere. “Christ, Kincaid, what did you say to him?” murmured Doug. We…

Of course, I should clarify at this point that Jerome doesn’t look like a demon, at least not in the traditional red skin and horns sense. Maybe he does on…

The phone jolted me to consciousness the next morning. Dim, murky light filtered in through my sheer curtains, signifying some freakishly early hour. Around here, however, that amount of light…

Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.I suppose I should have been reassured, then, that I was…

TWENTY-FIVETHE KING SHALL BE A FOOL Alas, your humble fool is the King of France. Actually, France, Britain, Normandy, Belgium, Brittany, and Spain. Perhaps more, I haven’t seen Cordelia since…

TWENTY-FOURBOUDICCA RISING All my years as an orphan, only to find that I had a mother, but she killed herself over cruelty from the king, the only father I had…

TWENTY-THREEDEEP IN THE DUNGEON “My fool,” said Lear, as the guards dragged me into the dungeon. “Bring him here, and unhand him.” The old man looked stronger, more alert, aware….

TWENTY-TWOAT THE WHITE TOWER “Tosser!” cried the raven. No help was he in my stealthy entry to the White Tower. I’d packed my bells with clay, and darkened my face…