A Tale from the Western Continent
After losing his eyes to a medusa, dark elven assassin Gheeran has a major crisis of faith. No eyesight, no way to ply his trade, no future in his band of cut-throat outcasts - what's a guy like him to do? As it turns out - a lot!
A young man stumbles across an unusual antique store going out of business and purchases a chess set, only to discover that it contains eight trapped Greek Gods and Goddesses. With help from some friends, he must free them all from captivity before time runs out.
Valentines Day Contest 2024
Tom & Tim are 12. Becoming inseparable, they do everything together, until they enter college. Tim's sister Breanne is 3 years younger. When the boys are seniors, she's a freshman. They protect her from the boys, like 2 big brothers. Tom acts indifferent, but deep down, he cares for Breanne. Tom goes to college, Tim joins the Army, but they remain close. Breanne marries but loses her mate overseas. Tim, concerned for Breanne, asks Tom to check on her at Valentines, while he's deployed.
This one is a slow starter, with romantic overtones. Dumped as he waited for his g/f the cinema he noticed a mature woman nearby crying, distracted from his disappointment he comforted her and things developed from there.
Chronos Chronicles: Chronos, after helping to save the Kindred women, finds herself on a very different journey. She is among the first human beings that she has seen in over 15 years. This time she must relearn what it means to be human, she finds herself a without a map to guide her only universal sense of what is going on.
It got his attention. (Note - several readers have asked me to repost this story as it seemed to get lost when the site went down a little while back).