Lizzie has been playing with bright, enticing fire and got a little burnt. But is that enough for her to keep a safe distance from those lovely dancing flames..?
Part Two of Three. Willis Carrington is one attractive man, and Lizzie wasn't immune to him. Problem was, he wasn't immune to her sister Caroline, either...
Part One of Three. When you lose interest in keeping your life -- well, lively and interesting -- you start to see just how green that grass is on the other side of the fence...
Banks has witnessed deaths he doesn't understand, faith that he himself has never had. With no way back to the life he once lived, he has no choice but to immerse himself in the culture he has found...
Banks observes the Goatmen, and sees the things they do over and over, their rituals. But he knows it is time to learn more, the history, the reason, the transformation that these repetitive actions mean to the people...
An outside observer can collect facts, and propose reasons for the facts. But it is in observing a people as a participant that one learns deeper truths...
Banks could not have survived the ascent of the Towers without Gomer's help, and as he recovers, he is learning more about the Goatmen. What he cannot understand about these encounters is the "why"...
After days of observing and being observed by the Goatmen, We -- and They -- have made a breakthrough. At least for Banks there has been a breaking through of his reality...
On the planet Aguirra, under the sun known as Astarte 217, Gordon Banks and the crew of the Merrimack have discovered strange plants and insects...and people...
Joseph Carrabis on himself: "It was as if somewhere in my teens I said to myself, 'Let's see ... I can do well in school, go to college, get a degree and lead a totally mundane, boring, completely unfulfilled life. Or I can become a superhero ...' and I saw that and said, 'Screw that. The rest of the world can go on the straight and narrow,' and I took a left.
Through a diabolical deal, the P's and the M's escape the boredom of Purgatory and get back to the east coast and Life, that still has a bit of Hell attached to it...
Heaven wasn't as ideal as they thought it would be -- I mean, what kind of paradise is it if you can't make a little celestial cash on the side? So what happens after Heaven?
Marlene can take care of herself, there's no doubt about that. And the Foundation thinks it can take care of the Righteous Avengers...but what about collateral damage?
The Enhanced Life Foundation does some interesting research involving blood -- which is not too unusual except that they are vampires. But someone is trying to destroy their research facilities. Maybe attacking vampires isn't the brightest thing to do...
Who are they and what do they really want? Gary Beck presents a novella about the 1% in The Big Apple that you don't know very well... (Part One of Ten)
A graduate of Belmont University, Ralph Bland is married with a daughter and three very spoiled dogs, and on some occasions he likes to disguise himself as a normal person. He is the author of 16 novels, all of the comic Southern Fiction genre.
