Browsing Category 'Fiction'
Chapter 1 Nigel stood in his office, looking out of the large mirrored window, at the deserted club below him. He was the owner and operator of Club Vampire, currently the hottest nightclub inNew York City. Club Vampire had been in operation for nearly a year now. With each passing week the club gained in [...]
PROLOGUE AUGUST 824 AD The Viking longboat made its way slowly up the river. Its single sail was furled so the ship was propelled against the sluggish flow of the current by its thirty oars. The river was narrow and shallow but the longboat was perfectly designed for such conditions. Its width was only fifteen [...]
Chapter 1 Turtle in the Road “Grampi! Stop the car!” “What?” Grampi replied as he looked around and started slowing down. “There’s a turtle in the road…stop the car now!” Samantha screamed. Grampi dutifully pulled the car to the side of the road. They had already gone way past the turtle, but Grampi knew from [...]
Chapter One Ash sighed heavily as he stared out of the window. The beautifully manicured grounds swept before him: magnificent rose gardens; geometrically perfect flowerbeds and borders receding into the distant wall and the high, iron gates. Not a soul was visible from his vantage point, he might have been the only being in all [...]
1: Down at the ‘Silver Spade’ Lester ended up knocking seven bells out of a beefy Northerner. That was the night at the Silver Spade when they had their first contact with the world of Jistabout. Because it wasn’t really a beefy Northerner. In fact the man was so to speak the advance guard from [...]
Chapter 1 Detective Anthony Camarelli brought the barrel of his gun up in a two-handed grip, took careful aim, and put three rounds into the perp in rapid succession. He allowed himself a moment of satisfaction when all three shots hit their mark. Removing his headphones and goggles, Tony pressed the button to retrieve his [...]
Once upon a time, in a small village, in the depths of the Cheshire countryside, lived a young boy whose name was Sam Horsley. He lived with his widowed Mother, in an old farm cottage on land belonging to the small country estate, and family seat of the Vernon family. Sam’s Father had worked on [...]
