The waves of turkey-size dinosaurs(?) hit us while Sergeant Kemp passed out guns and ammo. Really bad timing on their part.
I had an M4 carbine with the M203 grenade launcher attached, and I dropped a pill in the middle of the biggest clump of the cluckers. High explosive, not the most effe...
2023-10-29 17:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We left the field a little dejected because we had just lost our last game of the season. If we’d won, we’d be going to the finals, but we lost twice in the best of three first round, so we were out.
It seemed a shame, late August and no more organized baseball for most of us until coll...
2023-10-29 02:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Addison played his last minor league baseball game, then he read his medical report.
2023-10-26 06:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Oliver Sweet's roommate in college never paid for meals or tickets because he only went on dates as a girl.
"I think this would work for you, too, Ollie," Adrian suggested. "Or should I say, Holly?"
2023-10-25 03:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Melanie Brown's Mutation novel from BigCloset, sequel to The Switcher tales, will be coming to Kindle soon. Here's the preview of the cover art done by me and three different AI art programs.
2023-10-22 16:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Five novels, two novellas and a novelette from Maggie Finson, Bek D. Corbin, E.E Nalley and Melanie E all collected in one ebook of over 500 pages!
All of the adventures of Maggie's cast of angels and demons in one HUMONGOUS volume!
Next week!
2023-10-22 00:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Vic battles the creations of the Mechanical Master in the latest Masks volume to reach Kindle. Coming soon.
Cover art by Melanie E
Typography by me
2023-10-21 04:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The idea of me having a date with Leland Frick, the team photographer, almost caused a riot. By this time, there seemed to be sixteen girls —including me, damnit!— left at the party, and all of them had one thing to discuss: my supposed date.
At the top of their lungs — and cheerleade...
2023-10-19 13:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Problem
Part 6
“Go away,” I mumbled, sticking my head further into my pillow.
“Amanda!” hissed my annoying sister. “You need to get up!”
I pulled the pillow over my head. “Just go away.”
Cathy began tugging on my arm, trying to pull me off my co...
2023-10-18 10:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not a stalker. Well, ordinarily, I’m not. But I had begun to feel like one after following a girl for four or five blocks through the twisty cobblestone streets of Old Town.
She was a small woman with a tidy figure, busty but slender elsewhere. I’m no expert on women’s fashion, ...
2023-10-17 23:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Rod Pick stared. Linda had pointed me out and called me her sister Joni, but it didn’t seem to have registered. He kept staring at my chest.
I’d been worried he would recognize me, but it now appeared he was honestly just interested in two things. Annalisa poked him to move with the flo...
2023-10-15 18:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Problem
Part 5
I just sat in my office chair, stunned. How the hell did I wind up with a date with a boy? A boy I barely know. This coming Friday. I… I can’t date a boy.
“Hey, Amanda!” whispered a voice from my doorway. “Did you call him?”
I nodded. “Ye...
2023-10-15 04:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Emma's new book will be up on Kindle in the next few days. Here's the cover, art by Melanie E. and typography by me. :)
2023-10-13 19:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Karl just loved the new shampoo his girlfriend had recommended. It was so fresh and flowery. He ought to do something nice for her. Perhaps he could take her to that new chick flick she wanted to see.
Art by Melanie E
2023-10-10 03:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Problem
Part 4
As we got into Jonathan’s car, Cathy looked at me and asked, “Are you going to call him?”
I shook my head. “No. I mean, why would I? I don’t know him, and he’s a boy.”
Cathy laughed as we seated ourselves in the car. “That’s why you t...
2023-10-07 18:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The vehicles of our little squadron were parked around the edges of a bosque wood. That’s an Arizona phrase meaning an isolated piece of forest covering just a few acres, usually all one kind of tree. I didn’t know what kind of trees these were, but if I had to guess I’d say cottonwoods; th...
2023-10-07 01:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Monkey Business Part 7
By
Melanie Brown
Copyright © 2023
Still rattled from my encounter at the Dew Drop Inn, I slowly walked into my house. My parents were sitting on the couch watching TV. At fir...
2023-10-06 02:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick glance told me Joanna had found time to throw a shortie nightgown over her nudity, making her twice as naked. “You hit’em high, I’ll hit’em low, Petey,” she yelled. I felt sure she had grabbed their attention.
One of the few pieces of wisdom about fighting I got from my Da...
2023-10-05 04:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Cathy's adventures continue...
2023-10-04 06:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow. Just something Melanie did for her portfolio. Her art is available for commission, for RPG characters, fiction illustration, book covers or whatever. She's on BC discord if you want to talk to her.
2023-10-03 05:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
You're right, Ms. Wonderful. No one is going to recognize me as Kevin Frum, your ward, in this get-up. But I do wonder what I'm supposed to put in these cups?
{redrawn by Melanie E, recaptioned by Erin H}
2023-10-02 05:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Problem
Part 3
“Oh. There you are.” Charlotte said from the doorway. I have a really tough time referring to my former wife as ‘mom.’ It grates on me.
I was at my computer in the room we had originally set up as my home office. It’s going to turn into my new bedr...
2023-09-30 07:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I handed the glasses back meekly after staring through them for at least half a minute. Streep and Helmstead took another brief look before the lieutenant snapped the lens covers back on.
“It’s a really big…bird?” I suggested. “And it was flying away there at the end.”
Sgt...
2023-09-29 10:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Doppler Press exclusive coming soon. Cover Art by Melanie E and typography by me
2023-09-28 18:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 34: Closing Remarks
The roar of the crowd was only slightly muffled by the curtains as they drew closed.
I'd survived.
I was down a leg for the moment, but in a fantasy world that could be fixed.
We were battered, and at the end of our ropes, but w...
2023-09-27 18:29:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Lt. Helmstead spoke to me without lowering his field glasses. “I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore, Lucie.”
“Utah, sir,” I said seriously. “We’re not in Utah anymore.”
Sergeant Streep grunted, about a number four, amused but impatient. “Don’t sass the El Tee, Priva...
2023-09-26 07:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Small Problem
Part 2
I felt like I was floating. I had no concept of the passage of time. I had nightmares of tiny bugs nibbling at my brain. Strange sounds would rise and fall. Lights would flash, sometimes dim and others brilliantly bright. I also felt as if I was burning up. I stru...
2023-09-24 21:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It put a damper on the festivities, the news that there were guys downstairs.
“Beverly!” Joanna spat. “I’m going to pull her scalp off and have it made into a wig!”
Joanna’s Aunt Beverly had been on the phone earlier. Had she called up some friends and invited them to cras...
2023-09-24 00:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I Wish continues with new dangers and new abilities for the sisters!
Cover Art by Melanie E.
Typography by Joyce
2023-09-23 19:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Monkey Business Part 6
By
Melanie Brown
Copyright © 2023
“Hey, Colin. What’s up?”
Standing on my front porch, Colin said in a serious tone, “I just wanted to check up on you. See how you were ...
2023-09-22 19:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post