Zephocles

"In no way am I jealous─just territorial. Because when you're jealous, you want something that's not yours. But when you're territorial, you just want to protect what's yours."To what lengths would you go to erase your deepest, most darkest memories?What were they; mistakes made in class? In love? In life?For war orphan Kalvin Kent, the answer has always been painfully clear; no length is too far. Being one of the many children forced into a war that wasn't his to lose, Kalvin longs to erase everything about his childhood, from start to finish. The catch─Kalvin must aide the military once more in the extermination of the Sparrows, highly-evolved humanoid beings which are natives to the luscious world of Ephemeral, the only planet capable of sustaining acceptable living conditions for humans. But when things take a turn for the worst, Kalvin is forced to decide which matters most; the loss of his painful memories, or the survival of an innocent species.…

Zephocles

"I didn't crawl my way to the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian."First came the days of solitude.After the days of the solitude came the trials. Dark trials that forbade the agonizing destruction of one's humanity. The death of the apostate. A darkness that paved the way for new waves of insanity. The hushed whispers of a thousand voices. Reapers of flesh; takers of lives. Masters of misfortune and teachers of cannibalism, ways of the new age. When two teenaged boys slowly succumb to the new horrors of reality, they spark one the world's most deadly wildfires, pushing their humanity to the brinks of no-return in order to retain it, an ironic paradox. Noah, the Violent Winds of Change, seeks to cast aside the very constructs of their twisted reality and start anew; Rylan, the End's Beginning, values acceptance of the new age's traditions.…