Galatea: Collected Poems
...a collection of poetry...…
Communion of Darkness & Light » Sigtryggr || The Last Kingdom
Aelfwynn's father is infamous. Once a great jarl of the Danes, Guthrum took up the Christian cross and allowed himself to be baptized into their strange faith. In return, he was given land and power. But his children carry the weight of his former life. Half Saxon, Aelfwynn has turned a blind eye to her savage bloodlines. Now on the eve of her departure for the nunnery, her own pious choice to take up the cloth and become a novice, her father chooses to offer her up in marriage to the young and cunning ruler of Eoferwic, Sigtryggr Ivarsson.…
Her Most Grievous Sin
The devout village of Whitscar lives under the iron fist of the Chapel. Minister, a man who rules their bodies as well as their souls, expects the members of his congregation to seek purity above all things. Verity Grail, though betrothed to Minister's only son, is also the niece of the village's most notorious sinner, a woman who died in her shame with a babe out of wedlock. After a bad harvest, Minister seeks to find the member of his flock who has cursed Whitscar with their sin. The signs are simple, homes with illness or untamed women are usually to blame. After her sister comes down with a fever, Verity's mother sends her in the dead of night beyond the walls to seek a medicinal herb in order to avoid the eye of the Chapel. While roaming among the ancient tombs beyond the black trees of Kirksor Wood, Verity meets one of the five Immortal Princes of the far off Fire Hill, a volcanic kingdom of inhuman blacksmiths and warriors. Sigtrygg, the second born son of the infamous demigod King Assur, takes pity on her and offers her a choice visit his father's secret kingdom high in the mountains.Verity is faced with the choice to stand by her family and return to a life of fearful duty or imagine a greater destiny for herself beyond Whitscar.…
Silence Deep as the Snow » Sihtric || The Last Kingdom
Rhoswen escapes with only her life when she runs from the queen of Ceredigion, her step-mother. The Welsh princess is far from her homeland of Cymru. Deep in Saxon and Dane held land, she seeks refuge from her relentless hunters at Coccham. But how long can she remain hidden from a mad queen, bent on her destruction?…
The River Wife: A Tale of Bard the Bowman
The woman had lost her mind. Somehow, she'd nearly drowned in the spellbound stream of forgetfulness that cut through the dark eaves of Mirkwood. Now, without a name or past, she emerges on the other side of the forest, only to be found by an honest boatman of Laketown. Bard, a widower and father, takes the strange woman into his home, unaware of what effect it might have on his family in the future.…
Heart's Poison: A Tale of Boromir
Zôrzimril has known nothing in her life, but the sickly light of the decaying tower of Minas Morgul. Taken into Mordor as a child by the Witch-King of Angmar, she is the last of his ancient bloodline lost to the centuries. Well educated in the lore of poisonous plants and dark magic, she is a pawn to be used after the Dark Lord's victory. Zôrzimril has long accepted and waited for her fate. Her obedience to the Dark Lord is complete. Until the Witch-King is defeated before the walls of Minas Tirith and the lands of Mordor destroyed.All that is left to the lady of the Dead City is the bitterness in her heart and the corpse of the Captain of the White Tower, the tool for her revenge.…
The Last Days Of Mars
Ereshki is a Guardian Child, offspring of a demi-God. The Annunaki, the three divine Guardians from the far off Seven Stars, have seeded mortal women of Mars with their children for generations. Ereshki is taller, smarter, and more strange than other mortals of her planet. She will live for hundreds of years. And she resents what sets her apart from the people of the planet that she loves.In her 33rd year, her coming of age, there are disastrous changes happening to her land. Ereshki is soon given the choice to leave Mars for a new planet that the Annunaki Guardians have groomed for their children. Will Ereshki depart for the green and blue planet that will be called Earth with others of her kind? Or will she choose to remain on the doomed red planet?…
No Small Sins? : a 1980s vampire story
1986, nineteen year old Dina Marker is stuck in a small town, working at the pizza market owned by her family. A set of three siblings move to town, the West brothers, and open up a billiards hall on the outskirts of town. The rebellious establishment soon attracts the youth of the community. As tension builds between the West brothers and the new cop from Boston, Officer Matt Seaward, Dina chooses to ignore the mounting danger in pursuit of deadly curiosity.…
Tower of Thorn
Iona was put in the tower for her own protection from the enemy, the kingdom of Klavad. The heir to her father's throne of Ceowald, she has no memory of her life before the tower. Her only window is the mirror that she has learned to control. Iona casts a spell on one of the images in the looking glass and saves the life of the Prince of Klavad, the one she calls the Red Warrior. Defeated in battle, now Ghazan, the last of his line, must free of the daughter of his embittered enemy from her entrapment.…
Sugar Mama and the Ace of Spades
Blush is down on her luck. After graduating college, and then being dumped by her boyfriend, she makes two life altering decisions. First, she accepts a job at a candy and soda shop called Sugar Mama. And then she casts a dime store love spell on a stranger, though she isn't quite prepared for the results of her enchantment.In a world where magic is driven by love or luck, naive Blush is drawn into the underground world of illegal magic dens and ruthless mobsters whose only concern is making a profit off of surplus spells. Soon the lines of sugary fantasy and brutal reality are blurred beyond reckoning.…
All The More Strange: A Retelling of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
What Estella Green spies at the window casement haunts her sleep. The violent and passionate murder of a gentleman is not an event to be ignored and the shock of it sends ripples through Victorian London. But Estella has more secrets than just the nightmares that invade her sleep. She is the newly employed "night apprentice" to the upstanding, but clandestine Dr. Henry Jekyll and what she learns in his shadowed laboratory could lead to vicious end for her as well. Or perhaps her salvation.…
Heroic Hearts: A Chronicles of Narnia Fanfiction
One hot July morning, a new shipment of antique furniture arrives at Price's Emporium from Boston. Among the pieces is a massive wardrobe that is nearly one hundred years old.Tabitha Price's grandmother is given little information on it other than the date of it's make and that it is from England, once owned by a gentleman who died in a train accident along with many other passengers back in 1949. That evening, believing that she hears a kitten mewing in the depths of the wardrobe, 22 year old Tabitha ventures inside and stumbles into the land of Narnia.It is the Golden Age of the rulers at Cair Paravel. Led by the courageous High King Peter, who has grown to adulthood in a world far from his own time and place, the country is thriving. As Tabitha learns of her host's origins back in their own world, she is met with a decision to remain there or find a way home where she will never see Peter or his siblings ever again.…
The Savage Inheritance
In 1745, Miss Mercy Savage is left an orphan after her notorious, money lender father is killed in a mysterious fire. His infamous riches, and extensive library, are all left to her under a single condition. She must leave Boston for the town of her parents' origin, a small New England hamlet snug in midst of marshland and swamps. There she becomes the ward to her father's only childhood friend, Cyril Bawden, at his sprawling brick home filled with books and shadows. But there is a dark figure haunting her steps, one that is seeking what is due to him, something her father promised years earlier.Inspired by the short story by Washington Irving, "The Devil and Tom Walker"…
Book Of Ruth
"Bitterness is unbecoming of a woman, but I cherish mine like the memory of first love. I see nothing in Leon Wagner, but an automaton. He is a machine of the Third Reich. I am surprised he even bleeds."In the summer of 1945, the world rejoices at the surrender of first Germany then Japan, but healing is a long time coming. Though they are not visible, Ruth Tucker's wounds run deep. Having worked as a nurse for the American Red Cross since the invasion of Normandy, Ruth's hatred for her country's former enemy runs deep. While stationed in Zell am See, Austria, she is assigned to nurse in a German POW camp. She meets a young Wehrmacht soldier, Leon Wagner, who speaks English and strives to spark a friendship with her. But Ruth's bitterness is almost too strong. All she sees in Leon is a heartless machine. Slowly, through a shared love of books and their families, she begins to recognize his humanity and starts to feel her own stir in her heart, something she thought long deadened by the months of violence.…
An Expensive Solitude: A Band of Brothers Fanfiction
At 26, a cold and composed officer of the Women's Auxiliary Corps, Lieutenant Edith Sink is in control of her life. Within the parameters she has set, everything makes sense. Until the day Captain Richard Winters walks into her office.Winters/OC/Nixon…
Bloodstained: A Tale of Legolas
Ghosts are real. They walk among the Eldar, wearing faces long forgotten, carrying names that do not belong to them. Gwaeniel knows this first hand. She is one of them.He wouldn't know her from that time long past. He has forgotten the horror of his former years, but she has chosen to bear the sins of her last life like shrouded scars. Few remain who recall Gwaeniel's face from when she last walked Middle Earth, though they all know her infamous name. Gwaeniel was once known as Finduilas, before she was killed back in the First Age.He once called her Faelivrin, for the sun shining on the waters of the Narog River.She knew him as Gwindor in those days, but now he is called Legolas Greenleaf. No longer a long dead warrior of the lost kingdom of Nargothrond, but the Prince of the Woodland Realm.…
Heart of Flame: A Tale Of Sauron
Across the ages, their passionate yet dangerous bond has remained unbroken. She has known him by many names as Mairon the Admirable, Annatar the Lord of Gifts, as the sinister royal counselor in the last days of Númenor. As a demi-god in disguise, an elite craftsman, and a Dark Lord, she has known Sauron in every incarnation.And he has found her again across time and space in our modern world.New York City in the year 1925, Sauron seeks the maiden who has been his shadow since the beginning where she has been reborn, ignorant of her past.But someone else is searching for her as well to keep an oath he swore before Eru Ilúvatar, a promise to protect and save her from destruction.…
Out of a Vacant Heart: A Band of Brothers Fanfiction
After a brief romance before D-Day, American Nurse Cate Doyle meets Corporal Don Malarkey once more in the ruins of Haguenau, France. They find that though they have changed drastically since the European invasion began, their feelings have not.…
Dark Riverbed
Emerging from the river mist, theater student Ella finds that she is no longer in the year 2019, but has slipped through time and space, landing in the year 871 AD in England during the time of Viking invasion. Dressed in a Medieval costume for a college performance of 'Hamlet', she is mistaken for a lost Saxon princess, Aethelthryth of Northumbria, and is taken hostage by a raiding party of Danes. Their leader, Thorvid, is young and ambitious. Eager to prove his worth to his older half-brother, Ivar the leader of the Great Heathen Army, he sends the request directly to the newly crowned King Aelfred of Wessex for a rich ransom and decides to deliver her to the English king himself. Aelfred is destined to become one of the most renowned rulers in English history, known for his militaristic savvy, his scholarly pursuits, and his piety.When they reach Uintancæstir, called Winchester in modern times, Ella is torn between the Danish warrior and English ruler as they maneuver around each other in volatile times where the risk of betrayal can not only cost your life, but your soul as well.…
The Tie That Binds: A Hatfields and McCoys Fanfiction
After Dr. Elias Robertson accidentally kills an important patient on the operating table, he and his daughter Cordelia are forced to leave their native Massachusetts for the Tug River Valley in the Appalachians. While her father establishes a medical practice, Cordelia adjusts to the savagery of her neighbors. Soon she is torn between two sons on opposing sides of a bloody family feud. (Cap Hatfield/OC/Jim McCoy)…