Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 2 - The Ride Home
It was half-way to my car that Brian grabbed my shoulder and stopped me.
"Hmm?" I asked, turning and looking up at him.
"Keys."
"What?"
"Gimme the keys."
I scoffed and tried to turn away, but...
2023-02-06 21:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why?” Dennis wanted to know, “why do you have an egg in your pocket?” He was still smiling at me. The dusty lane behind the school buildings seemed somehow a magical place just because of his smile.
“Um, for lunch?” I said. “I knew someone would likely take any lunch money I ...
2023-02-04 05:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We entered Nordstroms by the wide doors on the aisle between the Women’s section and the Misses’. Wide counters for perfumes, cosmetics and jewelry filled the center of the aisle. It was nothing less than a shopping Mecca of femininity.
I must have groaned because Mom told me, “No sou...
2023-02-02 04:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Wednesday Knights
By Melanie E.
Chapter 1 - Now Streaming
"You successfully make camp for the night on the moors, the whispering spirits on the wind doing little to interrupt your rest. You rise the next morning and... Lunea?"
"Ugh," I groaned, already knowing what was com...
2023-01-30 17:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Instead of kissing Jack, I turned and stumbled back into my bedroom. “I’m-a going to bed until the world wakes up and makes sense,” I said to no one. I stumbled to my bed and tumbled into it.
I went under like a submarine in a WWII movie with the skipper shouting, “Dive! Dive!” wh...
2023-01-28 18:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I paid for our meal and tried not to cringe as the waitress said goodbye to us.
“Don’t mind those old truckers. They’re harmless,” Phyllis assured us. “They hardly know how to act around pretty girls.”
Megan laughed and responded, “If they give us trouble, we’ll sic ou...
2023-01-26 15:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A story in the style of Stephen King about a boy who is inhabited by an evil spirit that makes him act like a girl and drink the blood of other boys turning them into girls, too, just to survive.
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Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Timmy. Timmy was a normal boy, living a n...
2023-01-22 18:59:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a test page I did, experimenting with flat color. In later color images, Quillian's bikini was teal instead of red, at Daniel's request. He thought a red bikini was too cliché. :)
2023-01-21 18:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Buffy worked quickly, trimming my hair, then putting it in rollers. The perm solution stank like someone burning skunks, but at least she had warned me about it. She talked a lot actually, and eventually, I sort of tuned most of it out. I remember parts of her chatter though.
“I’m doing...
2023-01-20 20:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The bullies had no hope of catching us and probably didn’t try, not that I could even see as we made two quick turns, and they were out of sight.
“I’m Dennis, Dennis Fernandez,” my savior shouted in my ear.
I shouted back, “James Ludolph,” but he didn’t seem to hear me, ...
2023-01-18 00:15:22 +0000 UTC View Post
There were four more pages written but Daniel wanted to do other things for a while. We had four or five more episodes plotted and briefly outlined but they were never drawn.
Is Quillian gone for good? Maybe not...
2023-01-17 08:51:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I missed the bus my second day of high school and had to walk more than two miles to reach the campus. It’s always hot in September in Boudreau County, even at 8:30 in the morning, and by the time I got near enough to hear the tardy bell ring, I was soaked in sweat with my clothes sticking to m...
2023-01-14 18:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I sat there, unable to react. I certainly couldn’t speak. The waitress had just casually referred to Megan and me as girls. Had I changed again? Was it obvious?
There had been that moment back in the motel when Megan stared at me, starting to say something about how I looked. She had stop...
2023-01-12 04:48:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I remember, I must have been four. We had just moved into an old farmhouse west of Baltimore. Momma and our new daddy had a big bedroom, and my older sister Janice had a smaller one. I had my own room, but it was really a closet leftover from when the old house had been rebuilt aft...
2023-01-07 19:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Maryanne explores the stranger side of romance in 18 tales.
2023-01-05 23:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming out soon from Doppler Press. Soon, like maybe today!
2023-01-05 18:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty gross, huh? :)
One thing people have asked is why did Ydde escape? Well, for the sequel, of course!
Unfortunately, the sequels and follow-ups were never done. :(
There's one more page of this presentation of Quillian. I hope you enjoyed it.
2023-01-05 00:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the salon workers called out, “Joni?” and I raised my hand before starting toward the chair she indicated.
“I’m Buffy,” she announced as I turned to sit down.
“Buffy?” I asked, not sure I had heard right. It sounded like a name out of a sitcom.
“Yup,” sh...
2023-01-02 04:05:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Eve looked her reflection in the eyes and smiled.
The dress was perfect. Just a little slinky, just a little flashy with its silken shimmer, but not so much as to scream 'look at me,' even if that was precisely what she wanted to shout.
"It will be enough," she reminded herself, just ...
2023-01-01 04:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn’t a lot of blood, but we ended up stripping the bed and running cold water in the sink on the sheet to maybe prevent staining. Megan knew this trick which I had never heard of. “We don’t have any salt, but I think it will still work,” she commented.
I had no opinion. My usua...
2022-12-29 14:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I remember telling Daniel about this page and him protesting that he didn't think he could come up with a way to draw Quillian swallowing all the monsters.
I told him I had faith in him. :) I wasn't wrong.
2022-12-29 04:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostI sat silently for a bit, thinking about everything that had happened. Less than 24 hours before I had come home from school, planning to go out later to my babysitting job.
Everything had changed. Especially, me. I wasn’t even using the same name anymore. I glanced down. They were still ...
2022-12-18 07:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I guess I stared at the buzzing instrument a little too long. Megan took it back from me gently, saying, “I’ll show you how.” She clicked the device off, making me flinch again.
I nodded at her, numb.
“You can’t go right in,” Megan explained. “It might hurt. Hmm.” She ...
2022-12-01 04:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostOver on My Cage Patreon, Ed (the writer) asked for everyone to post their favorite Thanksgiving movie. At first, I couldn't think of even one Thanksgiving movie but suddenly I remembered and this is what I posted:
My fav...
2022-11-24 06:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Maryanne's 17th DopplerPress ebook will be all about brides and weddings and how they happen through romance.
There are about 20 juicy stories in this one, some of them from ideas I gave Maryanne.
Look for it this weekend on Kindle.
2022-11-22 23:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a great page! Four monsters, Ydde, Q and Inkypus all in one frame! Daniel wasn't sure he could do it without crowding, but he did it!
Mike Sekowski (Justice League, Metal Men) might have been able to do it better but he would have charged too much!
Allergies are kicking my butt. The beautiful weather of fall in Southern California is my bane. Something blooms this time of year that can set my nose, eyes and face on fire.
I woke up in the middle of the night Thursday morning and sneezed for two hours. It felt so much like going a few r...
2022-11-18 16:04:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The clerk at the motel told us they only had one room left--second floor all the way back. “It’s only got one double bed, not a queen,” he warned.
“We’re only going to use one bed,” I said, and Megan giggled.
The clerk grinned and pointed at the football jersey I was still...
2022-11-17 06:42:20 +0000 UTC View Post
For all of being a Jerk, Jack was a gentleman. He didn’t let me lie on the floor where I had fainted. I was already coming to when he scooped me up.
“I’ve got you, babygirl,” he murmured.
I laughed softly and put my arms around his neck. How much of that wine had I had? I had ...
2022-11-13 07:38:11 +0000 UTC View Post
“You know, those capris look good on you, Joni,” Donna mentioned as we left the restaurant after avoiding ordering cheesecake for dessert.
“Hmm,” I muttered, waiting for the zing.
But Mom interrupted before Donna got a charge up for a personal lightning bolt. “They really do...
2022-11-10 11:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post