Sunday, August 14, 2011

The Remnant Chapter 1 - Lark's Lament

“Welcome to Moreno Valley!” The sign hung lazily off a wooden post sideways. Moreno Valley was home, it was where she’d been trying to get all along. Now that she’d finally made it, she wished she’d have thought better of it. Home, her home, was gone. Everything she’d known and loved had been decimated.
Lark stood in the hot July sunshine. That was the only thing that was as it should be. Summers were notoriously hot in her home town. Her green short sleeved T shirt clung to her sticky skin leaving her feeling dirty and irritated. It seemed that considering the circumstances, the sun would show her poor home town some mercy and back the hell off.

The roads were still intact for the most part, that had been the same everywhere she’d been so far. Buildings were torn asunder. She hardly recognized the place. The hills surrounding the city acted as a compass for Lark. She knew exactly where she was in relation to those hills. Her old high school had been directly across the street from the base of those hills. She knew her way anywhere in the city from there.

The End of Days Pt. 1 - Phoenix Rising


“Baby can you get that?” a husky male voice said in her ear. Emma groaned her displeasure.

“You get it!” She huffed, pulling the down comforter up over her ears. It was Saturday morning. Nobody with any decency called your home on a Saturday morning anyway.

“This isn’t my house and it isn’t your house phone.” He grumbled, following in her disappearing act under the blankets.

“Damn it” Emma said, reaching over for her cell. It was one of her two cell lines. “Phoenix” she spit into the receiver. Phoenix Queen was her full moniker, but no one ever used it. Technically no one ever used her full name of Emerald either, but that was by her own design.