Nobody on the road ( Read more... )

Chuck, my animal handler, looked grim. "We have a problem ( Read more... )

Millennia past, the art of necromancy was still widely practiced. Many of the great early civilizations only developed, in fact, because they had vast reserves of slave labor drawn from their ranks of their own dead. But the wizards who had the ability to do this were gradually seen by the regular old Powers That Be as a threat, as they controlled ( Read more... )

There are only two things in the world that are certain. One of them is death ( Read more... )

They lounge on the Vaticanus Mons under a sky full of stars ( Read more... )

When the call came, everyone sort of quietly looked around the room at each other, waiting to see if anyone was going to step up to go get the Old Man. When that didn't work, we agreed to an elimination round of rock-scissors-paper, but everyone chose scissors, then everyone chose paper, then everyone but me chose me. Assholes. I'd complain about ( Read more... )

I waited for hours, but it worked. The soil stirred slightly, moved, and then the bulk of the figure that had long laid buried beneath pushed its way out, to take a deep breath ( Read more... )

Hello. Welcome to "Now You're a Zombie ( Read more... )

We'll never figure out who Patient Zero was, I'm sure. I mean, he (or she) is probably still out there, trundling away. But sometimes I have to wonder if they realized what they were setting into motion that first time ( Read more... )

Ultimately, it was the dogs that sniffed him out. I had my doubts - the cold, the wind, the snow, the vast spaces involved, the nature of our quarry himself - but they did it. Somehow, they followed a trail that had been buried for weeks by never-ending blizzard, all the way to a cave we'd have never seen, not from the ground or from plane or from ( Read more... )