Port Vikhavn
Liu Yi looked over his fleet and was finally satisfied as the dying light of the sun cast everything in a soft orange glow. It had been a hard several weeks to get enough of his damaged vessels back in shape aft...
2024-09-21 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Blake Sims (1), Thomas Sims (2), Heather Sims (3), Joshua Sims (4), Wheaton High (5), Wheaton High Football Field (6)
2024-09-20 17:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post1994
I opened my eyes, trying to adjust for a moment. I finally realized the sound I was hearing was my alarm clock. I reached over and slapped around for it a few times until I hit the button to make it shut up.
Every...
2024-09-20 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSardinia
The sprawling villa was, at first glance, opulent and over the top in the classic Italian style, which had become something of a melding of older pre-diaspora Roman style and follow-on Carthaginian styles melded tog...
2024-09-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNote, this book will have adult themes and situations in it, and should be skipped if you do not want to read that.
The walk back to my dorm was the longest of my life. It was early in the morning and the campus was a...
2024-09-17 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostStarhaven, Sidor
Serwyn sat with his back to his office, ignoring the trophies and ornate tapestries as he stared out the window. His uncle had stacks and stacks of correspondence and missives for him to read, but he’d qui...
2024-09-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor closed his eyes almost as soon as they were on the plane and it was in the air. He’d learned in the service that you never knew where your next bit of shuteye was going to come from, so get as much of it as you could whenever you could. 2024-09-15 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Carthage
“And then,” Marcellinus chuckled, “the fool actually believed me when I told him the crate was full of salted fish! Can you imagine?”
Medb gave a throaty laugh, pulling her arm slightly against his so ...
2024-09-13 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTemporary Legion Hospital, Eastern Germania
Ky stepped off the small military train and was immediately stopped by multiple soldiers who wanted to reach out and touch him or wish him well or just get his blessing.
Thei...
2024-09-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, the rest of their trip to the airport was uneventful. Taylor was pretty sure they had seen the last of the mercs. If there were any more of them out there, they would be rudderless without their boss. Or at least that’s what he had h...
2024-09-10 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostStarhaven, Sidor
Edmund sat at his ornate desk, quill scratching furiously across parchment as he put every bit of anger and fury into the scathing letter the scribes would send to each of his barons, but targeted specifical...
2024-09-08 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDallas, 2024
I opened my eyes to the sterile white ceiling of the hospital room, the same view I’d been staring at for weeks now. I almost cursed being awake, since awake meant pain. The doctors were doing what they could,...
2024-09-06 14:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next hour, the drive was more or less uneventful. Taylor knew the mercs were out there and just hoped they ran into them before they got to Valencia. Even if the locals weren’t bought off, getting into a gunfight in their city would caus...
2024-09-05 14:27:12 +0000 UTC View PostPella, Macedonia
Ramirus stood by the window of his temporary quarters in Pella, his eyes fixed on the bustling streets below. It had been a less than productive several weeks since his first meeting with the Greeks. They ha...
2024-09-03 15:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostSardinia
Medb was back in a dark room, the windows shuttered against the outside world, partially for secrecy but also to keep the noxious spell of fish and salt out of her nose. She’d never loved ships and tried to stay o...
2024-09-01 13:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostStarhaven, Sidor
“… purpose of which is to bolster our own tax levies for support of our ongoing and successful war against the Lynesians, while punishing the increasing levels of purifier goods coming in on Inos flagged...
2024-08-31 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
Hortensius made his way down the docks again. The non-stop travel was a reminder of how time was catching up to him. It felt like only a few years ago that he was just opening his first factory, working constantly, ge...
2024-08-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor steered the stolen car westward. Bonnie kept insisting she had a place to go, but as they started to get to the outskirts of Caracas, and then out of the city, Taylor became less sure. With the airports off limits, he was a little unmoored,...
2024-08-27 15:50:56 +0000 UTC View PostCamp Banwīhraz, Central Germania
Ky walked past the two guards on duty outside of the large tent with the prison camp commander, Sellic, glued to his side as his other Lictore joined the legionnaires o...
2024-08-26 15:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostCarthage
Summer in Carthage was dreadful, especially for someone like Cormac, who had grown up in the cooler and much wetter climates of Ériu. Cormac had thought it got warm in the summers, but he now realized it was nothin...
2024-08-24 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, I just realized chapter 6 never posted.
Taylor could hear the gunfire before he rounded the corner, in spite of the midday sounds of the city. The SUV had been driving like a bat out of hell, weaving in and o...
2024-08-22 18:36:57 +0000 UTC View PostThey both remained nervous, constantly glancing over their shoulders, on the lookout for anyone following them, but no one else appeared. Taylor had continued taking a winding path to the airport, just in case, but it seemed like they’d managed ...
2024-08-22 18:33:40 +0000 UTC View PostEastern Germania
"It's good ground for a fight," Ky subvocalized, watching his men set up their positions in the undergrowth just where it began to thicken after thinning out at the creek that marked the front of his lines.<...
2024-08-21 14:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“Do you have a minute?” Lucilla asked, standing in the doorway of Ramirus’s small, cluttered office.
“Empress!” Ramirus said, standing up quickly, knocking several papers to the ground.
She shoul...
2024-08-19 13:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostCarthage
It was startling to Medb every time she had been in this audience chamber just how ornate it was. She had always loved finery and the symbols that befitted her status when she was queen, but even she would have blan...
2024-08-17 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI opened my eyes, blinking against the harsh fluorescent lights. My head throbbed, and for a second, I couldn’t remember where I was or how I’d gotten there. It wasn’t until I tried to turn my head that I found I couldn’t and realized ther...
2024-08-16 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTalabot, Lynesse
William crouched in the dark, his eyes fixed on the walls of the city in the distance, trying not to let the cold that was seeping deep into his bones from getting to him. The defenders were doing a good job...
2024-08-14 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
Hywel was leaning over a patient, looking at the bandage. It hadn’t been an overly serious wound, but one he’d offered treatment to in order to test out some treatments the Consul had given them for wound types. T...
2024-08-13 12:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few more beers, Jake said, “Okay pledges, time for your final task. Alpha Sig is known for our... out of the box thinking, and we want to make sure every brother lives up to those ideals. Each of you will be sent, either alone or in a pa...
2024-08-11 16:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post