:: completed stories ::
Somewhere I BelongWritten: November 2003
Instalments: 14
Word count: 48,421
Rating: M
She
continued flipping pages and scrutinising each picture that came to
light. The final photograph was one that had been taken nearly a
year ago – it was of Cassie, Matthew and I after a concert. Cassie
had somehow found her way up onto my shoulders; she was wearing a
purple and black zebra striped cowboy hat on her head and drinking
from a can of Bacardi and Coke. Matthew was sitting at my feet, and
for some very strange reason he was chewing on his drumsticks. Of
course, the bottle of Bacardi he had in his hand may have had
something to do with it; he did look slightly drunk. And there I was
in the middle, the only sane person in the whole photograph, an
almost full lemon Ruski in hand.
Desperately Wanting
Written: March 2005 - August 2006
Instalments: 9
Word count: 23,294
Rating: M
Written: March 2005 - August 2006
Instalments: 9
Word count: 23,294
Rating: M
The
smart thing to do in this situation would have been to call the
police, but I didn’t exactly have the time or patience for that.
Instead, I grabbed Gen’s battered hockey stick from beside the door
and started searching the apartment. I checked the kitchen,
bathroom, laundry room, Gen’s room and our poky little study, before
slowly approaching my bedroom door, brandishing the hockey stick in
both hands. I didn’t care who or what was in my bedroom, they were
trespassing. I grabbed hold of the doorknob and slowly turned it,
pushing the door inward.
November Rain
Written: February 2003 - October 2008
Instalments: 29
Word count: 100,394
Rating: MA 15+
Written: February 2003 - October 2008
Instalments: 29
Word count: 100,394
Rating: MA 15+
I
sat there for a little while longer, just watching him. His guard
had dropped again, and for the first time in so long I saw the
exhaustion, the pain and the utter misery I knew he had to be
feeling etched in clear relief on his face. All this shit – the
leukaemia, the chemotherapy, the knowledge that he was slowly
getting sicker – was wearing at him to the point where he was little
more than a thread frayed dangerously thin, and the slightest amount
of pressure would cause that thread to snap. He was just too young
to have to deal with any of this.
Sisyphus Rising
Written: June - August 2010
Instalments: 10
Word count: 31,869
Rating: MA 15+
Written: June - August 2010
Instalments: 10
Word count: 31,869
Rating: MA 15+
On
his way through to his bunk, he came across Taylor. The ship’s lone
passenger had fallen asleep at the kitchen table, sprawled forward
in his seat across the worn surface. His head rested on the pages of
an open book, and his back and shoulders rose and fell in time with
his breaths. Across the tabletop stretched his left arm, bent
slightly at the elbow, his fingertips falling just short of touching
the opposite edge of the table.
Twelve Stops And Home
Written: February - April 2011
Instalments: 10
Word count: 34,931
Rating: MA 15+
Written: February - April 2011
Instalments: 10
Word count: 34,931
Rating: MA 15+
“I’m
trying not to think about everything that can go wrong,” I
admitted. “Because really, when you think about it? All four of us
are putting ourselves in serious danger here. We pretty much are
the human embodiment of stupidity.” I barked out a laugh and slid
down the side of the van so that I was sitting on the concrete of
the warehouse’s loading area. “There is so much that could go
wrong, and not even all of the protective runes and sigils in the
hunter repertoire could save us.” I looked up at Taylor. “Are you
scared?”
Advance warning: this story contains mild femmeslash. Please keep this in mind if you choose to read this story.
The Basement Tapes
Written: November 2009 - August 2012
Instalments: 15
Word count: 66,808
Rating: M
Written: November 2009 - August 2012
Instalments: 15
Word count: 66,808
Rating: M
“When
I found out that my dad had been killed, my whole world stopped.
There are really no words to describe how I felt. And now that he’s
gone, there’s a gaping chasm deep inside me, one that I know in my
heart can never be filled.” I drew in a deep breath, trying to
steady myself. “I want him to come home so badly and tell me that
he’s never leaving me again, that he’ll always be there for me when
I need him the most. Well, right now is when I need him the most…and
he isn’t here anymore.”
Lanterns
Written: February 2013 - May 2021
Instalments: 31
Word count: 145,952
Rating: M
Written: February 2013 - May 2021
Instalments: 31
Word count: 145,952
Rating: M
He
had looked straight at me. Me. There were easily a
couple thousand people crammed into the UniBar, most of them female
(though I had seen a few guys dotted through the crowd), and yet it
was me he had zeroed in on. Nobody else.