We stand around the Command Center, staring at each other with uncertainty written on each of our faces. “Now what?” I say what I’m sure we are all thinking. Eddie blows out a breath. “We wait until the next super storm?” “We have to,” Xander sighs. “That one is gone.” I look out to where ...

Morality is something questionable, built upon a multitude of variables. I learned from a very early age that those who shout louder about their holiness are the ones hiding the ugliest sins. If even Adonis drowned in his vanity, how would a mere mortal fight against temptation? That parent-teacher meeting had two big effects. After ...

The air crackled with energy as the wind gusted around us. Ralph, Liz, Roxanne, and I held hands, reciting ancient spells. The candles we had lit had long since blown out, proving useless, but the sage bundle nestled in the amethyst bowl glowed in red and yellow hues. Smoke twisted and danced to the whims ...

Salty air nibbles my cheeks as I step onto the Lido Deck, the sky moving in turbulent waves above my head. Xander and I follow Eddie past the abandoned cabanas and pool to a set of stairs that lead to the Command Center. “They’ll be joining us anytime, too.” Eddie hasn’t stopped talking since we ...

One summer when Sophie and I were twelve, we were playing in the field outside her house when a bolt of lightning crashed across the sky right above our heads. The clouds were so dark and heavy that they suffocated the sun. I laughed as her hair stood on end until I saw the sheer ...

Memories of the previous night danced across Luna’s mind and settled in the pit of her stomach. She discovered from the station logs that there’d only been three new residents in the last month: the physician’s assistant who’d waited twelve weeks for transfer orders, an ensign assigned to the astronomy team, and Astor. The passing ...

People ask parents what they would do for their kids. Most of them will answer that they would die for them. Sacrificing yourself is easy because life ends in the natural border of the human limit. I would kill for mine. More than once. Soon after those fortunate events, the school hired Richard Steele and ...

When big felines see their prey, they wait as long as they need to make the first move and finish their hunt successfully. And that was my time in college. In my early years, Shanaya gave me a promotion and I became a hostess upon entering college. Now, her restaurant was a success and was ...

The Livyatan, according to Sophie, is an extinct whale that lived nine million years ago. It is said to have been similar in size to the modern-day sperm whale, was considered one of the top predators of that time, and even shared the same waters as the megalodon shark. That was hard to imagine, however. ...

The hard blow fell across her back from behind. “Get fucked by a Beluvian tocar!” Luna swore at the offender. Her electric orange outposter splashed down her shirt and onto the data pad she was reading. She turned to locate the dead grinter who’d doused her in her favorite beverage, only to find a trembling waitress backing away from ...