I swore I wasn’t going to step into this pool of body fluids and who-knew-what. So the next best thing was to swing out over it using the chains. It wasapretty heartless means, but I consoled myself with the likelihood these people had been hanging
The pounding of blood awakened Sergeant Maresh. His head felt ready to explode and he realized he was hanging upside-down. He attempted to move his arms which took considerable effort for they like his head were swollen with blood.
Sergeant Maresh did a final walk around the camp perimeter before he saw to his bedroll. The three junior patrolmen on watch were arranged in triangle formation. Nothing would get past them without at least another set of eyes seeing it. He was conce
Thorns extending from dense brambles tore tender flesh, clothing and lashed at terrified eyes threatening to rob their owners of sight. To lose so valued a sense would be disastrous for the two ladies as they plunged deep into the dark of night and a
The planet Jeran was the United Empire’s capitol world for five hundred years. The ravages of a brief but destructive interregnum scarred much of the planet’s surface, leaving a cruel, indelible mark on its population’s psyche.
Athousand ships under Alec’s command soared into fold-space, leaving behind the battered, twisted wrecks of a defeated foe. The Ulyians and the Crosians, bitter enemies, joined together to put an end to this cursed former UE officer once and for a
The dead marauders called their ship Bloody Thorn. Alec renamed it Redemption. No longer would the ship be used to wreak misery and havoc upon innocents.
Alec spent the better part of a day period studying the specs on his newly repurposed ass
Searing pain, like so many fiery little multi-pronged blades ricocheting in his head…a sensation of flying, followed by the blunt force agony of impact…his breathing constricted…as if a malevolent hand were wrapped around his heart and squeezing…sq