Posts Tagged ‘whethermen’

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] After a long day of meting out justice—or perhaps just venting her frustrations over life’s problems on the few kinds of people on whom it was more or less socially acceptable to do so—Solstice really just wanted to relax, grab a […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Zoe took a deep breath when she was out of the building, feeling like the Sociology discussion section had been a three-hour political debate on the verge of a brutal election instead of a simple hour-long classroom discussion. She fished around […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Silence was a delicate thing, Jeremiah has always thought, and needed to be treated with respect. His employer had read the letter—his first official task of the morning—and had clearly been considering its implications. But, being ever-attuned to the nuances of […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Ladykiller started nervously tapping her fingertips against the tabletop until she realized, moments later, that she was doing so with her left hand. She slid the condiment caddy over the several pits and scratches her clawed gauntlet had made, and said, […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Sometimes, Cole wondered if his affinity for the wee hours had more to do with his obsession to become a crime-fighter than did any actual desire for meting out justice—after all, so much of the action with superpowers and thwarting criminals […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] In the middle of a mid-March afternoon, with the sun out and hardly a cloud in the sky, the last thing Martin Osbourne—known to many associates and enemies as Marty the Hun for his take-no-prisoners, kill-or-be-killed attitude—expected to be doing was […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] It was always an interesting sensation to be both the hunter and the hunted at the same time, Query mused. What say ye, pray ye? Oh, prey shall you pray to an indifferent god; while hunter is slaking his thirst on […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Another out-of-the-way, grimy location; another dollar. Well, more accurately, $33,000 for this little trip, which was why Julian Gregori wasn’t grumbling much about driving all the way up to Maine from new Judah to deliver the crate in a defunct textile […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Professor McGinnis jotted down a date on the whiteboard—1970—then underneath it the current year: 2010. He turned to his Sociology and Culture class, every one of the 25 students a senior, pointing the dry erase marker at them, waving it like […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 1

Posted: 24th October 2010 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Milo Phillips’ fingers finished dancing across the keys on his touch-screen, as he imagined the winding down of the beat in the back of his mind that had accompanied the words he had written. The tongue is a weapon, my words […]