Multi-colored lights flashed and glared on the wet road and cast eerie reflections, reminiscent of artistic surrealism. Fillion imagined that his distress and anger swirled and moved with the refracted lights, creating an urban masterpiece...

“Joss””What?””What?” Dylan asked back.”You just said my name.””No I didn’t””Sorry that was me.”I sat up, banging my head on the roof. “Who is that?””Hey, stay down here where the air is good, okay?” Dylan pulled...

‘Tim and Raine are coming in.’ ‘Are they insane?’ ‘Apparently.’

People says it gets easier. People are stupid.”-Vlad

How could I explain why I’d acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she’d changed...

At that moment, the images in the giant sphere seemed to freeze in place as all motion suddenly ceased. The charging dragon stood transfixed with a plume of flame suspended in front of his nostrils....

“Crazy,” he muttered softly, “how much I need you.”Crazy, how something like that can feel like a kick in the chest, can hurt that much, can suck all the air right out of your body...

I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)

Bleeding from the ear. Oh Jesus, God. That was on the list for not applying pressure. But what did that mean? I couldn’t remember. Couldn’t think.”Is he okay?””You dropped a two-hundred pound log on his...

Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.

You know, you guys have been dancing around each other for so long you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. It’s a wonder you didn’t rip each other’s clothes off the minute you...

Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community.

‘Just think of a safe location.’ ‘Are there tennis balls in the soup?’ ‘Come on, be serious.’ ‘A pear camping highway fire mask,’ he said, more intensely. My heart rate, which had finally started slowing,...

The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, marking the moment when he would finally own his life.

As the leaves randomly fell, she contemplated how they sacrificially gave up their essence to sustain new life. Or was it the tree’s sacrifice? Each leaf was a part of Gaia’s play. Their final act:...

Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future.