The Nephilim

There was a man. Was he there? Michael thought he was. Maybe it was just his mind. The man was leaning down, but he wouldn’t come into focus. “Michael.” Apollyon’s was gentle. Michael had never heard him speak that way.…

Michael screamed in vain at the driver in front of him. His barrage of tightly strung insults bounced off the window and around the sealed, air conditioned, car and went unheard by the others locked in the death snarl of…

John felt a tingling in his stomach. It rose up and spread back down through his body. The anxiety, he had felt so profoundly moments before was evaporating as the drug worked its way into his blood stream. The pain…

Reggie, leaned against the tired brick wall, his knee kicked out, resting one foot on the wall. The brick was smudged with the diesel soot from passing buses and trucks on their way to the warehouses in the area. He…

The triumph, Jake felt, from finding the lost city, faded quickly with the slump that took hold of him after Lilly left. He had made a connection with her unlike any he’d ever made with any other woman.He had always…

Jake spent most of his time in isolation, crouched over a desk with a magnifying glass, his counterpart, birthday twin so to speak, had a very different life. Michael lived in the heart of corruption, Washington DC. He had hundreds…

Lilly and Jake sat together on the flight home. For two people that felt such a jolt at the slightest hint of physical contact, their conversation was mundane. They commented on the mountains they crossed, what movies they liked, and…

The next few days Jake hardly slept. He worked tirelessly ripping down vines, clearing away trees and brush exposing incredibly well preserved buildings. There were twenty cylindrical and four rectangular houses uncovered during the initial investigation. The houses were constructed…

Michael continued in school until he got his law degree. It wasn’t a challenge like it was to the other students and the work left him unsatisfied. While he dated relentlessly, no woman could push Marjy from his thoughts. He…

Michael cursed as he walked quickly down the side of the interstate trying to put some distance between himself and the Ford Escort he’d “borrowed” to get home. If the wrong person saw him it was all over. He really…