Ice Bone Novels & Stories

He looked at me with the particular scepticism of someone who has been promised things before. “I’m going to teach you how to disappear,” I said. He frowned. “What, like a magic trick?” “Like biology.” I pointed to my eyes. “Every human being has a blind spot. Where the optic nerve meets the retina the brain just fills in the blanks and you never notice what’s missing. In hockey, that spot gets bigger. The cage, the padding, the helmet they create pockets of nothing. If you stay in that gap, you don’t exist to the defender.”

The warehouse on Industrial Boulevard had been abandoned for three years. Broken windows, graffiti, a roof that leaked in seventeen places. The real estate agent apologized walking Maya through it. "The bones are solid," the agent said, sidestepping a puddle. "Built in 1952, reinforced concrete. The basement is particularly impressive—used to be cold storage." Maya stared at the massive basement. Concrete walls two feet thick. Underground. Large enough for fifty people and six months of supplies.

"The inkwell's alive. It bites." "Of course it does." The cabinet was locked with something older than iron. Bone. A femur, carved with teeth-marks, bound across the doors with silver wire. I could feel the Void fragment behind it. Not heat. Not cold. The particular absence of both, like a tooth missing from the world's jaw. "Help me with this." I gripped the bone. "Pull on three." "Mimi-" "One." "This is a bad idea." "Two." "We're going to die."

Justin asks. "Yes. I told you. He's friends with the tough guy now. I don't know how long it's been like that." “And you're sure it wasn't all Ares?” asks the doctor. “My wolf's claws are made of bones, doc. Not iridium. I looked at my hands and yeah, I'm very sure. Our friend was right there.” “How do you know it's iridium?” Henry asks gently, a frown creasing his forehead. “Those bones could be steel. Or any other metal.”

Tomorrow you're gonna move to Zero” Zero, short for Zero Isle or it's original name “Ostrov Nol”. The grounds that hold Eric's penthouse. Harrington-Blackwood in 2018 through a Delaware LLC named НОЛЬ LLC (Russian for “Zero”). The island was previously called “Zero Rock”, because it’s just a black granite cliff rising 300 ft straight out of the ocean... Zero beach, Zero mercy. Then Eric bought, renamed it Ostrov Nol the day the papers were signed and had the name carved in Cyrillic into the cliff face at the helipad.

"Put them out of their misery." "Focus," I hissed, grabbing his shoulder. "If you kill them, the flow of energy stops. Heriberto wakes up. We are here for the book." We reached the third level. The air grew colder. The purple crystals were brighter here, throbbing with a heartbeat rhythm. Thump. Thump. And then we saw it. The Bone Orchard. It was a massive natural cavern. The floor was covered in bones...animal bones, mostly, piled waist-high. But in the center, a structure rose. A throne made of human femurs and skulls, fused with black glass.

Now the noise makes my stomach clench. I don’t look. I won’t. I stare down at this crack in the cement by my shoes. Count the lines. Trace the shapes. Anything but the ice. But my brain won’t let me off that easily. I’m dragged right back to that night. Flashback Back then, it was just as loud, just as crowded. We’d won, everyone buzzing. I was standing at the edge of the rink, watching Ethan skate over, sweat on his face, helmet in his arm.

I heard Tito Robert say. I went out of the room, I was just wearing a shirt and pajama. When I got downstairs, they were the only ones waiting for me, so I quickly sat down in my chair. I was surprised when they stared at my arm. "Sister Eunice why does your wound heal--- hmm..." "Just eat your food Maddie and stop talking nonsense." "Yes, mommy." "Ahm, Tito Robert what medicine did you use? My wound healed so fast." "Herbal medicine only." He only said.

"Buzz!" Luo Shui stood in the air, his robe swaying with the wind. He stood there and slowly put away spear. At the same time, something else appeared in his hand. The object was surrounded by sparkling white light. It looked extremely transparent, as clean as jade. Waves of ancient and powerful aura continuously released from it. Bone! That thing turned out to be a piece of bone! When everyone saw it clearly, they were all shocked. This piece of bone was only the size of a palm, but the terrible divine power contained on it made all the Insight masters tremble.

Claudia said. At nine pm the ladies were ready. Claudia was wearing a tight gold sleeveless short bareback dress with matching five inch gold heels and Miranda was wearing a long blue dress that matched her eyes. The dress had a V neck and was tight up the waist and loose at the bottom. It had a thin lace of sparkling germs which looked like stars. It also had a long slit up to her thigh. She also wore four inch blue wedges. Both of them looked glamorous.