Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 10

This entry is part 10 of 21 in the series La Gorgona [Ongoing]

Fernando rarely dreamed. Yet here in his grandmother’s jungle shanty, he dreamed without ceasing. Strange muddled half-dreams that felt to him like a delirium, a bizarre paroxysm in which he was paralyzed but still surreally aware. Visions came to him, elusive and chimerical and obscure. Visions of shifting shadows, of half-glimpsed monstrous forms. Voices spoke

Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 9

This entry is part 9 of 21 in the series La Gorgona [Ongoing]

The old woman’s voice was harsh and low, as though she didn’t use it much. She hadn’t paused in her chopping up of the fibrous, milky mystery vegetable in the slightest. Fernando wondered when she’d last left this shack, or had last had company here, for that matter. “I’m Carmencita’s son,” he said, “your grandson.

SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 132 (Explicit)

This entry is part 132 of 142 in the series The Pact [Ongoing]

Kagome’s chest clenched at Sesshoumaru’s choice of words. She didn’t know properly how to take it, or even if she should. Hand-in-hand, she followed him beneath the falls anyway. The iridescent spray pounded down upon her head and shoulders, pleasurably warm and crisply fragrant. She heard a silvery sound as she passed, like the faint

Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 8

This entry is part 8 of 21 in the series La Gorgona [Ongoing]

After a few more meandering conversations, Fernando found himself standing before his grandmother’s home, a thatched-roof, dilapidated shack at the edge of the jungle. Little more than a dirt path had led up to it—a goat path, he saw now. In the bare earthen yard, a wiry, slack-teated nanny and her gaggle of skinny kids