Blink Shell Novels & Stories

Staring after the woman as she turned slowly. Only as Sandra began to shrink from the doorframe did Blue collapse into a small, orange heap. Cheek throbbing where it had been clawed at by glass. Warm as she surrendered to silent tears. Throat swollen shut. Stomach seized tense with muffled sobs. And as she yelled, she screamed the words with the savage call she’d thus far done well to quiet. “You lot and your fucking money!” —

Once again, the zeal to survive was in him, roaring like a fearless lion. He fixed his gaze at the direction of the path to Igweka-ala’s shrine and pulled his legs. He ran a short distance and took shelter behind another tree. He was a few strides away from the shrine, and he could see the forest vividly. The old man’s location was unknown to him, and he could only hear the sound of feet scrubbing against leaves. He sighted a stone, raised it, aimed, and fired. The scrubbing feet stopped, and the restless noise slowed and died down. He reached forward and grabbed another stone. He aimed and fired. A loud rumble followed, and abruptly ended.

She stopped just short of the broken edge, shoes wet with spray, head tilted slightly as if listening to something beneath the noise. Cerebus surged forward, all three heads roaring—one at the water, one at the collapsing wall, one sweeping the crowd. Ellie drew the Blade of Bellerophon. The metal cleared the sheath without resistance, dark at the core, the edge catching the light once before settling into stillness. Another limb followed the first. Then another. Coils slammed against the fractured breakwall, levering concrete apart. The harbour boiled as something vast shifted beneath the surface, its weight shuddering through the stone under their feet.

he muttered through clenched teeth. He raised the Silver Gun again, aiming carefully. The storm of smoke swirled around him, and Selena's shadows fought to break free from the thickening fog. But Shane was too quick—he reappeared with a burst of smoke, appearing in front of them, moving so fast it was almost a blur. Ken fired. And the world exploded in a burst of lightning-infused bullets, arcs of raw energy crackling through the air. The power hit Shane squarely in the chest, knocking him back with explosive force. His body jerked, twitching as the electric charge coursed through him.

He was standing perfectly still, his eyes rolled back until only the whites showed, and his skin was tracing a lattice of sapphire veins that pulsed in time with the lighthouse’s rotating beam. He wasn't just a refugee. He was an antenna. “He can’t hear you, Shark.” The voice didn't come from Kael. It came from a small, sleek device sitting on the charting table—a black obsidian sphere that looked like a severed eye. Jinyan didn't lower his gun. “Identify yourself.”

Taking the blade out of his chest I bring it to my mouth and lick it "Ah tastes like it hurts" Turning to look at the shocked men they pull out their guns and start shooting at me. Running and hiding behind some van. I hear people breaking into the warehouse and I'm guessing it's Shadow's men Gunshots are heard firing around and now I'm kinda sad I'm not joining the fun. One of Mr. Klein's goons dropped dead in front of me. Taking his gun I go into the back of the van only to find two of them also taking cover

Breen stood a couple of feet away, looking nervous. She raised her finger to her lips to remind him to silence. She needed to wait for that bunkhouse door to open. It figures, her sister had gotten too drunk and oversexed herself then was still sleeping at this time of day too. Well, after this, she might rethink he drunken waywardness! A noise came from the front of the bunkhouse and she saw Breen turn his head. Suddenly, the echoing of male voices flooded into the large room. That was her cue! She rolled the blanket down and revealed what she thought she would find. SKIN! “Great, she is totally nude too!” she whispered as she glanced over at Breen.

A growl rumbled from the back of his throat, low, guttural, and quiet enough to tell Jayden that it wasn’t yet coming from malice. It was more of a warning. Fear flashed through Jayden’s eyes for a split second. Bash relished in the unpleasant emotion that was rolling off Jayden’s entire body. The same emotion Jayden had made Lilith feel just a few moments earlier. Bash was somehow pleased to get the same reaction out of Jayden. Jayden swiftly bared his neck into submission in front of Blaze. Bash used that ideal opportunity to swipe his claws at his neck to twist his head off his shoulders but Blaze held him back. Blaze forced himself to nod at Jayden before leaving the forest.

It looked like a Spore-Cloud. ​"It’s not digital, Aara," Thomas’s voice came through the Ravello vault, his tone hushed with a new kind of reverence. "The Guest at L1 just released a secondary vessel. It’s a Living-Shell a massive, translucent membrane filled with a bioluminescent fluid. It’s not a record of a dead world; it’s a Nursery."

Bradley woke up, but I was invisible to him, he couldn’t hear me as I said his name or see me, even when I snapped my fingers in front of his face. All of a sudden, a bunch of animals came running towards him. Mostly reptiles, including one exceptionally large brown and tan colored rattlesnake, which slithered right through me as if I were a ghost and attacked Bradley, it enlarged in size, and it sunk its fangs into his neck and wrapped itself around his body.