Stories tagged “banter”

  • The Good and the Bad

    Of course, as the situation demands, I call on some false bravado and appear unimpressed by the ease with which they caught me. “Look, you know how this ends. So do I. You talk about your evil plan, I stop you, and everything is happily ever afte...

  • If You Can Sing, You Can Climb

    “Are you bleeding?” I called to my junior partner. “No.” He sounded far away. “Are the goggles all right?” A short pause. I could tell he was counting to ten- in Greek. I smiled. He answered a moment later. “Ye...

  • Recovering His Pride

    Two men, first friends and now partners, stood facing each other, rapiers in hand. Both were slender, average-looking men. Jared the Grey, lived up to his name by being immediately forgettable- the man who is overlooked in every conversation. Lemon had...

  • A Little Joy in the Morning (Mature)

    “You’re just in time, sunshine. Tell me you got good news.” Karl’s mouth was gritty, his throat raw. “Me? I got so much good news, I should be a bible salesman.” “Wouldn’t work. First you gotta be a man ,...

  • Enemies of the Age: Holding Action

    Red-orange flames whirled around the two figures trapped in the middle of the circle of fire. A sword thrust into the ground separated them. The tall man with rough skin, combed his hair back with the barrel of a desert eagle. “Well, you are a tr...

  • Enemies of the Age: Ashen Revelations

    The narrow streak of death flashed toward the Ashen Warlord. A lesser man would have panicked and run, or frozen in fear. Ash did neither. Though, he didn’t move his body, his eyes tracked the steel-tipped wood, facing it with amusement tempered ...

  • Enemies of the Age: Triumph of the Day

    The Red Knight faltered as the the Warlord’s body finished deflating in front of him. Maxi tensed the muscles around his left eye, adjusting the telescopic part of his ocular enhancement. Tiny details obscured by distance became clear. There was ...

  • No Man is an Island (of Hate)

    Business concluded, the stranger bowed his thanks, took the case and left. Bree waited until the door slid shut before rounding on her partner. “I thought you hated outlanders.” Leon was still hunched over, punching costs into the computer....