The Areson Stories

They Were Me E. M. Areson  Laying on the bed in Rose’s bedroom they held hands as the life that should have belonged to two was merging into one. Their brain waves had been connected when a science experiment Fredric’s father had been doing went terribly wrong. They had lived on opposite sides of the plant then, but the mental link had drawn them together. Not oceans, or governments, or time zones could keep them apart now that they were together.  They had been connected almost three years, it had given them intelligence without thinking about it, they could communicate no matter where they were, they knew everything about each other. They had figured out that, in theory, they could never have a merged brain without becoming one person for too long. But after the first year, their worries vanished. They were two in one and yet two. Now that wasn’t the case. They had started jinxing their thoughts, at first it was cool… then they started agreeing on everything. Their differe

Dying Kiss   E. M. Areson The pain was everything for a moment. I doubled over in pain and then it happened again, and again. I had been shot. The point of the second arrow was sticking out of my chest. I reached up and grasped the spot with my right hand. The man who shot that must have been marksmen, he’d hit me in the weakest spot of my leather armor. Yells from behind told me that my men had fended off the robbers responsible. I stood. Crimson was staining my hand but looking down I noticed my black clothing was absorbing most of the blood. My blood. I almost collapsed but I locked my knees and turned around. My men were in just as bad of shape as I was, at least I thought they were. The ground moves under my feet like a boat on the open ocean and I couldn’t see anything clearly. “Aris? Where are you? Aris?” The lady in the leather dress looked like Una, which would make sense but I couldn’t tell at first. My vision cleared a little and I saw Una calling, “Aris!” S