The Gathering Storm, Part 15

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Cole hadn’t heard a voice overflow with such seething rage in his life, and never witnessed a mood change so quickly in any one person. Zero to near-murderous in 0.5 seconds. “What the fuck!” Desperado bellowed, pointing a finger toward Cole, [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 14

Sorry, folks, for how long this chapter has been in coming. Just too many things that kept me from doing the final edits/rewrites after finishing the writing of this several days ago. Another chapter very, very soon, picking up at the same point in time as this one. This chapter was already so long I [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 13

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] The confrontation had begun as a simple attempt to foil a crime. Then it had morphed into something more like a game of Keep Away as Mad Dash continued to prevent the criminal from grabbing the bag of cash and getting [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 9

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Zoe took a deep breath when she was out of the building, feeling like the Sociology discussion section had been a three-hour political debate on the verge of a brutal election instead of a simple hour-long classroom discussion. She fished around [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 8

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Silence was a delicate thing, Jeremiah has always thought, and needed to be treated with respect. His employer had read the letter—his first official task of the morning—and had clearly been considering its implications. But, being ever-attuned to the nuances of [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 7

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Ladykiller started nervously tapping her fingertips against the tabletop until she realized, moments later, that she was doing so with her left hand. She slid the condiment caddy over the several pits and scratches her clawed gauntlet had made, and said, [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 6

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Sometimes, Cole wondered if his affinity for the wee hours had more to do with his obsession to become a crime-fighter than did any actual desire for meting out justice—after all, so much of the action with superpowers and thwarting criminals [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 5

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] In the middle of a mid-March afternoon, with the sun out and hardly a cloud in the sky, the last thing Martin Osbourne—known to many associates and enemies as Marty the Hun for his take-no-prisoners, kill-or-be-killed attitude—expected to be doing was [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 4

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] It was always an interesting sensation to be both the hunter and the hunted at the same time, Query mused. What say ye, pray ye? Oh, prey shall you pray to an indifferent god; while hunter is slaking his thirst on [...]

The Gathering Storm, Part 3

[ - To view a list of all current chapters, click here - ] Another out-of-the-way, grimy location; another dollar. Well, more accurately, $33,000 for this little trip, which was why Julian Gregori wasn’t grumbling much about driving all the way up to Maine from new Judah to deliver the crate in a defunct textile [...]