“How did you get that?” Tex asked.“Mr. Curtis handed it to me to open a box. When I was done, I couldn’t find him. So I just been hanging onto it. I wanted to give it back, for real! The thing feels, like…evil.”Tex’s dreds had been pulled back into a ponytail. He pulled off the…

The hotel wasn’t lavish, but it was comfortable. After washing all the cotton dust off of them they were feeling the official first real night of summer vacation.“So, Tex, man, what kind of stuff have you been learning with Mrs. Muriel? Is it real magic?” asked Buddha.“But seriously, can you be a sorcerer and a…

Over the centuries, men have experienced adventures and I have recorded those that fit the archetype of them that persevere against impossible odds because they were driven by a pure vision. Even though they might have been manipulated by a sorceress or other villains, the true hero will always fulfill his destiny and set right…

The boys always liked Country Mike, even before he did Spider’s tats. Mike was in his thirties, just like Boogie, and at 5’10” he was about the same height, only a little more muscular and with blond hair. There was something about his eagerness to disregard the authorities, or what normal people considered the right…

“Dad shouldn’t you be resting? You look terrible,” Max asked Detective Chaz Bernos who was trying to put a sling on over one of his cheap suits.Chaz smiled a painful grimace that hurt his stitched lip and two black eyes. “Your grandpa always told me, ‘If your life gets rough, get a job. If it…

Every morning when the bell-ringing wagons would pass the home of Marjorie Laboux, she would gather her daughter Isabella and her mulatto companion Nikki Legêr inside their plantation home so they wouldn’t have to witness the cargo of heaped yellow fever bodies. If Marjorie would have had her way, she would have taken her girls…

Rupert Ausber Merrywhether was an angel. Not the baseball team, or some red beret wearing vigilante, but an actual haloed and winged angel. He governed 2,388 angels who called themselves the Lords of the Heavens of Crystal. Unlike other angels who were so beautiful and magnificent that it was ecstasy just to bask in their…

When the buses arrived at Our Lady of Fatima Summer Camp and the boys had unloaded their three bikes, George handed Buddha Tex’s cell phone and said, “Go ahead and make the call and stay close; this should all go down pretty quickly.”Spider rode Maggie past a group of boys containing Malik, who was showing…

Spider, George, and Buddha were crammed into Tex’s bedroom scared to go out in the hall. Tex’s mother, Mrs. Angela was reading him the riot act as she picked up various objects for him to pack from various rooms.“You should be preparing for college in the fall instead of running around playing teenager!”“Mom, I am…