Change of Heart The thing was, Peter Delmont noticed, that once you kept winning the amount of people that didn’t know you decreased rapidly. You started to get used to the fact that every restaurant could arrange a table for you despite the place being packed with people. There would always be bottles of the [...]
Archive for April, 2009
For a while there was only silence between us. After Valentina pulled the earpiece out of her ear, and I carried her to the jet. It was enough. I could practically feel her heart pounding against her broken ribs, but she seemed to be unbothered by it. She always did. I’d seen her come in [...]
Drip… Drip… Drip… The rain had stopped falling a little while ago, but the world was still adapting to the newfound dampness. The roof he was under leaked, and during the past hours it had rained. Even after it had stopped, a steady stream of waterdrops had fallen on his head. It took a special kind [...]
“And so, little Godling, I will set you onto the world as they requested. You will give them exactly what they desire, and through that they will come to know despair. Go on, my son, and shake the world with every step.” In the beginning there was nothing but the darkness. It was not true [...]
“Have you seen him?” It was an easy question for which there was no easy answer. Yes, Chang Kun Wei had been seen in the building. No, he had looked nothing like the boy they had taken in so many years ago, groomed and raised to become exactly the thing they were worried about now. [...]
She was amazing. There was no other way to describe her. Legs that seemed to go on forever, blonde hair that was carelessly swept up in a pony-tail, and a smile a man would kill for. Some men sooner than others, I’d hand them that, but all in all she was the perfect choice. I [...]
There’s no reason there’s no lesson No time like the present tell me right now what have you got to lose what have you got to lose except your soul? ~ Slipknot, “Pulse of the Maggots” Sixty minutes I remembered my nightmares the moment before I woke up. They stood out brighter and more horrific [...]
Have heart my dear We’re bound to be afraid Even if it’s just for a few days Making up for all this mess Snow Patrol, “Run” Killing Us The dream ended in tears. Lannie’s tears, to be precise. I heard her sobs the moment I entered our apartment. It was a gorgeous spring morning, the [...]
And now it swells in me Smash all my defenses down I’ll take this I’ll let this fire consume me ~All that Remains, “Become the Catalyst” Burn Most people found their way to the Fortress on their own. They would sign up looking for fame, glory or money, to draw blood, to test themselves, [...]
A bit of luck The first thing that made her realize that she had indeed been hit was the sudden absence of pain. So far she had been bleeding and burning from a dozen of small lacerations and bruises, and that was the sensation that registered first: she didn’t ache anymore. The second thing was [...]
