Portents of Doom_Blood Oath_Silence and Music_A Hero's Life
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Portents of Doom
“You predicted death and you were right. Four times.” I hold her hands on her glass orb. When she tries to pull them back, I grip them tighter. “You told them to get their affairs in order. You told them to write their wills. They listened. When you had their wills out in the open, you killed them. You switched the wills. Four murders.” Her blue eyes bulge.“You’re crazy,” she says. She’s about to shout when I start to use my gift. The fortune teller is silenced when my mind invades hers.The tattoos on her hands aren’t runes of magic. They’re Klingon she copied from Google. She paints her eyes ...
Blood Oath
“Please Dr. Tepper, I’m not sure I can do this,” the distressed medical student explained while considering her options. Surprised by her level of resistance, the esteemed chairman and hospital administrator reasoned, “Ms. Gaines, I don’t believe you fully understand the situation before us. That boy wasn’t going to survive either way.” “You may be right, but we both know he didn’t die from his wounds. He was given the wrong blood. I overheard the nurse tell the ER doc she mixed up the two patients...” Helen Gaines clarified her position before being fiercely interrupted. “This conversation h...
Silence and Music
It happened when Stella was just a teenager. The disappearing she’d called it at the time, though now she simply called it the silence. Her silence. On one of many lonely nights, Stella sat on the edge of her bed, softly strumming her guitar, though no song danced free from her fingers. The chords were as lonely and discordant as she, going softly from the strings with no connection to the one before it or that which followed. Stwww.onedoor.ccella simply played for the comfort of the wood on her palm and the feel of metal on her calloused fingers. As she played, Stella stared at everything and nothing, and...
A Hero's Life
They were three weeks into filming the latest and greatest action movie, and the Director, Arthur Coolidge yells repeatedly into the darkened set for one of his actors who was late once again for his scene.Beth, the 1st Assistant Director scrambles through the darkness asking everyone on-set if they had seen Walter anywhere. She knows that if she doesn’t get him onto the set soon, the axe will fall on her, not the actor.Knowing his love for gin and tonic, Beth sent the 2nd AD out to any of the local pubs, but before he could walk out the door, a familiar voice bellowed his existence for all t...