Serials
Serialised fiction published in Piker Press, a weekly journal of arts and literature.
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Leaving the lecherous Aunt Maddie to find and figure out to do with all the gory bits, Eddie leaves to sow seeds of mystery, and Charlotte finds herself alone with Toby, who has a funny way about him suddenly ...
Hank mounted the steps thinking about an adult party of sorts, but not one where the adults were hundreds of years older than he was. Gee, Hank, didn't anyone ever tell you that living nasty might be dangerous to your health?
Bartender Tim is only just starting to realize that his master, Kenyon, is not nearly as in control of things as he thought he was. Kenyon's territory is being invaded, and the invaders do seem to have the upper hand ...
Charlotte is ready to play out this Last Act of Jim. Maybe she should have done it back in Florida, but back there, she wouldn't have had the sexy company of Eddie, or Toby's massive presence to rely on. She just knows it's going to be good ...
Hank got lucky that night, getting cozy with a beautiful woman, as well as getting good and drunk. Sure hope it was his last request ...
A plot is afoot, but there's time for Charlotte to have a snack before she takes on the next task. Oh, and the snack just happens to have transportation available!
There's a mystery surrounding the house that Tim and his perverted aunt are using, more that it just containing a half-dead vampire. There's someone else involved, the woman Nathan described as the most evil vampire in the world.
Remember Tim's reference to a website and cameras and how it couldn't be viewed? Tsk, tsk, perhaps Kenyon should have a hacker on his side instead of a foolish pornographer-bartender. After all, Eddie does ...
A vampire war is coming; Kenyon's power madness has made that certain. And in the conflict, sides will be chosen ... and if not? Vampire values are not the same as human ones.
Had Kenyon seriously considered turning this idiot Tim into a vampire? What had he been thinking? Tim is so incompetent he can't even keep his stupid aunt from opening the door! Time to do Tim's thinking for him. Maybe they can even pull this plan off.
The voice on the phone is driving Kenyon nuts and time is running out for his hapless bartender -- is the situation sinister, or just reeking of stupidity?
Things aren't where they should be. People aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. Idiots are in the way, and Kenyon is going to have to clear up all the problems himself. And who the hell is watching him, anyway?
There are more vampires in the area than Charlotte ever dreamed. Kenyon has kept her in the dark for a long time, and her resentment is about to boil over. Not a good time to make her angry
Charlotte has asked for Eddie's help, and he would love to help her any way he can. Maybe it's his chance to change how things turned out ...
While Kenyon tidies up the mess he's made of Jim, Charlotte returns to Eddie's, caught up on sleep and about to receive a lecture on her wayward ways.
Kenyon knows how to play "Good cop, bad cop," all right. Although he tends to view it like ordering take out for lunch! Bad news is making him hungry, but the worst of the news is yet to come ...
Kenyon's figurative castle is beginning to crumble here and there. Nothing is working out the way he imagined it, and for the first time in a long, long time, he realizes that he has to carefully watch his step.
The witch knows far more than she should have, and reduces some major vampire players to humility. The only good news here is that she doesn't seem to like Kenyon, either ...
Eddie is the Master Vampire in charge, and two humans have interfered with his world. Their sentence is Death. At least it would have been, had the air not begun to glow like the sun and open up to reveal ... someone none of the vampires want to risk messing with!
A small-town death blows the door wide open on some world-class gossip. The Mayor has died in bed, but he wasn't alone. Not only was the bed not his, but it had seen some highly varied traffic go through. There's going to be a lot of emotion surrounding this funeral...(Originally appeared 08-15-2005)
Iris looks like a little girl, but she has enough witch power to keep a whole room full of angry vampires at bay ... and one in particular that she doesn't like at all.
Charlotte keeps hearing more and more stuff she never thought she'd hear, like she how she missed her old pals and how they just avoided her for so many years ... and then she hears that Legs has lost track of the little witch spawn???!
A small, secret room in the luxurious upstairs apartment over a biker bar, and five powerful vampires have to ask a little girl for assistance ... and none of them are very happy about that at all.
Surprises, surprises! The first one is Iris, and what she seems to know. And the second one is far better -- a surprise that Charlotte thought she'd lost twenty-odd years before!
There are memories associated with the dive known as Eddie's ... memories that Charlotte can never leave behind completely. Memories of justice carried out -- but also memories of what happens when a vampire crosses the line ...
It's just not a bright thing to do, messing with Charlotte. Even when she's on the run. As a matter of fact, this "on the run" is getting her moving, meeting old friends again, and making her remember what a power a vampire can be.
Charlotte has to admit that the long years and Kenyon's infernal meddling with her have cost her some of her favorite memories -- memories of riding the roads with Kegs. She'll miss him when she goes to face the music with Kenyon. But something weird is happening, and the scent of magic is in the air ...
The little witch-spawn has taken a shine to Charlotte -- and Charlotte is as surprised as anyone could be by that turn of events. A tagalong kid is a pain in the vampire butt at any time, but now Charlotte also has to deal with the elemental Legs, whose emanation of power even makes Charlotte nervous, and who does not care for this child at all.
Even as she recovers her strength from the terrible crash, Charlotte manages to find someone new to infuriate -- and be infuriated by. But none of that matters when the familiar roar of a certain motorcycle reaches her ears, and she knows that her mental cry for help has reached someone else's.
On the run yet again, the trouble that Charlotte attracts turns a highway into a debris field filled with death, and time seems to go slow motion as she watches the sky sparkle with shards of her windshield ...