Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
It was different this time. There was a dry pain in my lungs, and a deep ache in my bones, and a fire in my stomach that made me want to curl into a ball and mew like a kitten. My mouth tasted as though mice had nested in it, and when I took a deep breath wooden knives twisted...
"You tried, Jackson. It didn't work out," Toby said through gritted teeth. "Throw out your gun and stand up. I won't kill you--you know that. You do as you're told and you may s...
2. Part 2I thought of the tree that had fallen and crushed the east wing. An elm that size was at least fifty to sixty years old--maybe older. And the only elm on the place had been a tw...
3. Part 3Two flights up, in a wide corridor of muted lights, deep carpets, brocaded wall hangings, mirrors, urns, and an odor of expensive tobacco and _coeur de Russe_ a small man in bla...
1. Part 1It was different this time. There was a dry pain in my lungs, and a deep ache in my bones, and a fire in my stomach that made me want to curl into a ball and mew like a kitten....
5. Part 5It stopped twenty yards from me, loomed massive as a cliff. Its heavy guns were dead. I knew. Without them it was no more dangerous than a farmer with a shotgun--