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Gwen was having a terrible day. Her plans had her speaking in front of a large group of management, wowing them with her incredible knowledge of TCP/IP security and the proposal that would save them thousands. And prevent their networks from being broken into for the last year. But, life had a way of whacking you upside the head. In her case, it was from a nasty cold that left her hacking and gasping for breath. Instead of standing in front of her bosses and having them throw promotions, men, an…

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Bright colors swirled against the back of his eyes as Thomas struggled to pull himself awake. His head throbbed almost painfully as his senses slowly woke up from the black fog that filled him. His tongue felt like it was rolled in kitty litter, swollen and listless. Sluggishly, he pushed his head back and forth until it began to move more freely on it’s own.

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Steve sighed heavily as he wandered back into the living room of his mother’s house. He paused as he reminded himself, it was now his deceased mother’s home. She died only a few days ago, collapsing to the ground at the senior’s buffet, right before the shrimp buffet. Her favorite. Tears started to drip from his eyes as he squeezed them shut. Taking a deep shuddering breath, he wiped them from his face before Sarah could see them. Even though she was in the kitchen, digging for some food, he hat…

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Nicholas groaned as he fought back a surge of nausea that rose up in his throat. His thoughts were stuffy and sluggish, cobwebs tugging with his efforts to identify where he was and what happened. His groan shook through his body and he struggled to crack open one of his eyes. His eyelids refused to move, weighed down with dried tears and weak muscles. He managed to flutter one eye, then the other, straining to pry open his eyes to look into a suffocating darkness.

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Nicholas never realized how terrible the state maintained the interstate until he was tied up in the back of a van. He felt every bump, buckle, and ditch along the asphalt. Every thump that vibrated through the van knocked his head hard against the cold steel wall. He tried to pull himself up and away, but his back screamed out in discomfort and he had to drop back down. The cool metal crushed his face in icy hardness but there was nothing he could do.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/blind-date-full-moon?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Sarah arched her back as her blind date nuzzled right along her neck. He didn’t caress her as much as pin her with his strong lips. She gasped, her hands clutching to his shoulders, fingernails digging into the leather jacket that still had the scent of newness on the fringes. Narrowing her eyes, she wrapped her legs around his waist, feeling the muscles in his ass flexing as he pushed harder. His efforts ground her against the bus stop bench.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/bridled?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Laureth felt terrible as she staggered out of the back room of the dentist office and leaned heavily against the wall by the clerk. Paul smoothly appeared next to her, holding himself in that posture that vibrated between excited and bored, and rested one hand on the counter. She couldn’t read the emotions from his face, but she still felt an uncomfortable twisting inside as she stared into his eyes.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/butcher-1?rev=1277693708&do=diff

It was a good day, at least it started that way. Yawning, my hand cracked open the fridge and I peered at the empty shelves. Groaning, I looked down to the last of my meat, gathered from some abandoned woman at the bottom of the sewer. Only the soft folds of her sex and part of a right leg was left. Not even a single slash of bone was left, every white fragment was cut out and thrown in a heavy black duffel bag by the door. A soft smile crossed my lips and I let the door shut, sucking closed eve…

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/butcher-2?rev=1277693708&do=diff

My day started with a horrible pounding in my head. Endless rapping, rapping at my temples. For a brief moment, I thought I was dreaming of a raven, then I realize the pounding should be coming from me because I can’t afford to drink. Even when I wanted to.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/daughter-with-benefits?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Jake sighed to himself as he pushed open the front door, half distracted by the stack of bills in his hands. Naturally, the thickest was the cellular phone bill. It was the best plan he could have, but they still didn’t offer unlimited chatting when it came to thirteen year old daughters. He tore it open, closing the door with his foot as he pulled out a thick bundle of papers. Groaning, he stared at the monthly total, then flipped through three dozen pages of itemized calls, downloads, and text…

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/for-vanity-sake?rev=1277693708&do=diff

The office door opened with the soft squeak of rusted hinges. The dingy front office—only slightly larger than a walk-in closet—looked terribly bare with two padded chairs and a desk for a non-existent secretary. Alexis pushed the door completely open before stepping out from the back office. She tugged down on her baggy sweatshirt, her long fingernails scraping on the fraying edges of the decades old fabric. In her attempts to cover her rear, the fabric strained against her massive breasts. She…

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/forgotten?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Diana blew out the candles to her twenty-ninth birthday with a sigh. One candle refused to extinguish, flickering in the faint whorls of invisible wind from her breath. The grocery store cake glistened in the light, the white frosting almost reminding her that there was only a few more minutes left on her birthday. Brown eyes, the color of Mississippi mud, looked up to focus on a digital clock attached below the cabinet of her kitchen. The baleful red letters read “11:58.” Two minutes until midn…

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/free-ranged?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Marilyn took a moment as she stepped out of the taxi to steady herself. The black heels were barely wide enough to hold her up, but after years of long business meetings and desperate dating, they were the only thing she could still step on and it wouldn’t leave her. Pushing back the errant thought, she turned around and leaned into the passenger window and gave the driver a smile. His eyes automatically flashed down, to the shadow of her cleavage, but she kept the smile off her lips.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/good-idea-at-the-time?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Michael tapped the polished bar in time with the rock beat from the pathetic band in the corner. Ironically, he could keep more in time than the drum player. In his other hand, he sloshed the large glass in his hand, watching the amber liquid swirling around as he considered getting a refill. After a second, he decided he could stop at four. Besides, he had a big day tomorrow.

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The Green Lady was a woman in her forties, living in a small two-story house in an almost blissful silence. Her house rested at the end of a dirt road, almost just peeking around the tall pine trees that lined both sides. A massive garden surrounded her house, filled with more love than any human could even consider, yet somehow retained a sense of being wild despite the clean line of the picket fence and an organization of every single flower to some hidden rule of magic.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/hot-tub-thief?rev=1277693708&do=diff

The little red car shuddered as it slowed to a halt at the stop sign in the middle of a smear of town somewhere in the Colorado mountains. A belch of bluish-gray smoke erupted from the rear of the rusted tailpipe, then the car started to spasm. Annoyed, a young voice screamed out as the driver pounded on the steering wheel a couple of times. The car shook violently, but no one except the driver was there to see it.

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Gary settled back into his couch and cracked open another beer, enjoying the fumes then draining it between the flashes of two commercials. His eyes locked on the screen, waiting the return of the game. As he waited, he tossed the empty can over his shoulder. It crashed into the large pile of metal and garbage behind the couch—remains of a very enjoyable weekend alone of sports.

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Jack pushed open the wooden doors of the bookstore and peered inside. Bookcases filled the empty spaces, except for clearing filled with barely comfortable chairs and tables that saw better days decades before. The warm, comfortable smell of musty books and weighted thoughts filled the entire store, along with the undercurrents of incense and leather. He smiled and continued through the door.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/paying-debts?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Sara yawned and finally thumbed off the television. Kicking the blanket off, she tossed it on the leather recliner and stretched. Her night shirt, a huge t-shirt from an ex-boyfriend, hung off her breasts like a curtain. She glanced around sheepishly before she cupped her hands underneath them, bringing the large mounds up until they were almost perky. Then, sighed as she let them roll off her fingers and slump back down to her chest.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/ransom?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Jerry groaned as a headache of legendary proportions spiked through his mind. He lifted his hand to press against his temple, but his hand refused to move. Instead, a rattling sound filled the room, a harsh and unyielding metallic scraping that echoed into the pain-filled crevices of his mind.

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Sandra felt illicit pleasure burning through her teenage body as she crept around the bushes of the locally famous Izer home. It was the House That Could Not Be Tricked. The cool October wind tugged at her leather jacket, pulling at the long blond hair until it unfurled into a golden banner behind her. She almost grabbed her hair to tuck it back, but then remembered the egg she held in her palm. Her smile broadened as she hefted the egg in her hand. In her left hand, she had the other eleven egg…

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“What took you so long!?” Jim stopped in mid-step at the fury of her voice. It slammed into his gut with the force of a punch and he felt his muscles on his back tightening in response. Gulping, he stepped into her cubical and set down his toolkit as casually as he could. Turning around, he leaned against the cubical wall and took in the sight of the frustrated temp worker sitting in her chair.

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James yawned as he paged down on another long-winded website on subliminal psychology. To his left, a computer flashed along its ghosting process, copying down the proscribed installation from the server into the freshly formatted drive. As he watched, he saw the name for one of his own files, highly customized and illegal, scroll up. A blink later and the file disappeared. He chuckled to himself and returned his gaze to his main computer, flipping down another page in hopes of finding something…

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/there-is-no-trick?rev=1277693708&do=diff

Sarah Kissmen nibbled on her fingernails as she leaned against the fake zombie rising dramatically from a rubberized hole pinned to the ground with tacky metal spikes. The entire thing screamed twenty dollars from Walmart and it looked identical to the one three houses down. At least this one didn’t have the price tag still on it or the box in the garbage by the curve.

2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 2010-06-27T19:55:08-07:00 http://tsade.com/shadowed-earth/trio-1?rev=1277693708&do=diff

The door to apartment number twenty-seven opened quietly and the soft light from the sunset flooded into the room. A silhouette framed itself briefly in the door before Henry stepped inside, leaving the door half open. The faint smells of the summer air pushed into the room, but Henry ignored them as he sorted through a pile of letters. His eyes, a dark brown in color, caught himself in the mirror and he paused to admire his form.

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Thunder crackled along the cloudy sky, sending a wave of lightning across the darkness before echoing into a rumble. A warm wind, full of ozone and rain, oozed across the deserted parking lot and swirled around a dark-colored SUV before passing into the street.