Milo pushed his back to the wall, almost hoping that his body would become transparent and he would slip right through. Damn that nurse, damn this hospital! Damn all these... "sick people," if you could call them that. Milo felt cornered, trapped like he was a lone gazelle in a pride of lions; all of them just lolling about listlessly...until he ( Read more... )

The Year of the Scavenger
Prologue

Omsk, Russia: Winter 1996

Thick fog hung stiffly in the dark of the night; only bright moonlight penetrating the cloud and illuminating what it could of the dirty city street. It was quiet too; the almost imperceptible trickle of light rainfall and the shift of the wind barely audible due to its softness. The faint ( Read more... )

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  27 year-old Ann Marie sat curled up on her couch, her emerald eyes out the window watching the snow fall outside. Letters, about 20 or so, were scattered all around her, on the couch, the coffee table, the floor. One in particular was clenched tightly in her hand, its surface wrinkled and torn from being crumpled and unfolded many times. Since ( Read more... )

   I shivered again for about the millionth time that night; no one told me that nights were going to be this cold. I really wish I had brought my coat with me; a thin white t-shirt just wasn't going to do it. I think Dominique either sensed my discomfort or saw me shiver because only a moment later I felt his arm around my shoulders ( Read more... )

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   My heart skipped a beat when I heard the opening of the front door. I knew who it was; I'd been waiting for him all afternoon. Despite my anxiousness I still managed to slowly descend the stairs to where he was patiently waiting for me.
   "Where are your manners, Itachi-chan? Just walk right into my house, huh?" I teased pulling my 13-year-old ( Read more... )

The five members of Cinema Bizarre stared blankly at the situation before them. For some reason there was a child in the living room of the house they shared together. The child was very young, probably 1 or 2 at the most, and he could barely sit up on his own let alone find his way into their house. Yet there he was... sitting... well kind of... ( Read more... )

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