The unscrupulous graverobber left the shop with a fair amount of coin in his pockets for a dirty night's work. Not many merchants in the city would deal in fencing pilfered goods, but the shopkeeper Temmin

The curios shop was located in a drafty old building hidden in the shadows of the a local brewery. The air always smelled like spoiled grain and cheap graff but that didn't seem off putting to the clientele.

It's not easy being an adventurer. I'm a front line fighter, and my life depends on building and maintaining a reliable set of armor. The buy-in is a bit expensive because quality equipment doesn't come

The Order of the Radiant had a dirty secret hidden underneath their ivory white keep, beneath the catacombs of long-dead archbishops and paladins of ages past, there were training halls and barracks dedicated

Learning a valuable lesson from a black belt...

This one is a little different. The years of 2018 and 2019 were full of heartache for my family. We tragically lost all three of our dogs to different types of cancer and it left a void in our household.

I couldn't use my credit card anymore. That was one of the number one rules of being on the run according to TV. No credit cards because you can be tracked. Rule two: Toss the phone because it can also

"Man, I really hate refueling on corporate stations," Jerome grumbled as he paid the ship docking fees to the automated attendant. He was old-school former corporate military and wasn't used

I'm giving away all the liquid HIVE Dollars this post generates via a free raffle. No upvote, Rehive or Follow required (Although doing one or all three is greatly appreciated). Last week we had well over

I poked the dying embers of our campfire as nightfall set in. My hellhound, his massive body cuddled next to me, grumbled in his sleep as I scratched the tangled fur on his belly. Nighttime was when we

I was hunting something that wiped out an entire village on the Eastern valley. Clinesville was a small farming community with a single Cleric keeping watch for the invading creatures of the night. The

Louie Gallo had to be the dumbest criminal to date, I should know because we grew up together. He kept doing the dumb shit that always got us in trouble, and I ended up becoming a bail bondsman. Not only

The future arrived faster than I ever imagined. It started with genetically altered pigs creating organs compatible for human transplant. Thousands of people on waiting lists for new kidneys or livers

Jimmy was a promising young line cook at a well rated Brazilian steakhouse in sunny Las Vegas before he met Michelle. Michelle was a bartender at his favorite twenty-four hour pub in the same plaza in

My marines were still amped up and ready for a fight, most were sorely disappointed that the space pirates had cleared out of their recent plunder and escaped before we arrived on scene. The flight back

It all started a week ago when Uncle Eli left a short and cryptic message in his will, and in the process left me his vintage Gagarin L43 light freighter. The long term ship storage company that he went

We finally did it. Manicured fields of barley, wheat, rice and rye waved gently in the wind. Grain that could sustain humanity now thrived on an alien planet thanks to genetic alteration. The only price

The old Victorian style mansion on the hill was exactly where the mysterious letter dictated. It began as a sunny Friday afternoon, but by the time I reached the remote village I was caught in a torrential

It has been many years since I've stepped into the forest I once called home. Growing up in a small New England town, with mostly cows for neighbors, I had to use my imagination to keep occupied since

The redheaded engineer picked at her plate of food. "What's wrong? Don't like the special tonight?" Jack asked his sister. They had stopped into the Blue Oyster bar and grill on Centigrade Outpost