In some respects, Jake realized, the shipwreck had very nearly been fortuitous. Any marine biologist, for example, would be downright envious of his circumstances. He hadn’t thought to do anything unusual the afternoon he’d headed out on his sailboat. The Dreamer was his pride and joy, and he practically lived on it. A literature professor…
Ren had been in bed for nearly three hours, utterly and almost painfully wide awake. Her parents had waited entirely too long before retiring, and she’d forced herself to remain deathly still as the sounds of teeth being brushed and tiny snippets of late-night conversation slowly ceased to drift down the hall. She had to…
Every morning she awoke to the sight of a pale, brooding face; full lips, haunting eyes, and skin that sparkled. Sometimes to the point that she had to wear sunglasses to bed. “OK, so I gotta take my poster collection down.” Sitting up in the sheets of the simple camp bed that formed the center…
He knew he shouldn’t venture out on the night of a full golden moon. Something, though, told him to go to her. She needed him tonight, that much he knew. Although the shine of tonight’s moon would bring forth the dreaded change, an eternal transformation whose pull and force he could not resist, the magnetic…
With great calm she cast a loving gaze across the vast area of her homeland; a pretty meadow that, in the eyes of Angelika, formed the whole of her magical world. Throughout this emerald green meadow, grew a variety of surreal flowers. Her favorites, while resembling roses in structure, shone in every color of the…
Some people go their whole lives searching for the perfect sexual mate. And sometimes, you don’t even have to look for it to find you. When I first moved into the old Township house, I was expecting to find maybe a lingering spirit or two in the attic. What I wasn’t expecting to find was…