As my string of holiday space fillers continues, here’s a little something I wrote for an Exalted game I played in online. For those who don’t know, Exated is an RPG about an epic world of god-kings and betrayal. Hopefully this story makes some sense to those who never played! “My tale?” Apsara says lightly, […]
This is a little story I wrote for a writing challenge at SFFChronicles – 300 words for an image prompt of a door in a mountainside. Hope you enjoy! The uneducated observer would think the woman before the door terribly nervous. Behold the downcast gaze, the bright red shoes scuffling in the dust, ringed fingers […]
A bed, a cat, a life together;That was the dream ofYears separated by oceans.We lie together, listening to his purr.He doesn’t know of the coming dayWhen oceans rise again,When the bed is half-filled,When you go away. The idea, the reality, of thisHas crept up like aSage’s calm years on the mountain,Counted only after enlightenment’s bliss.Enlightenment’s […]
Hello all, it’s story time with Uncle Peat. This one is a bit sweary and a bit bloody, so you’ve been warned. It’s about 7k words, and I hope you enjoy. Nelevo ran. He ran past looming menacing shadows, through rain and branches that whipped back in his face, over the slick leaf mould. He […]
Deep below London’s streets the insistent pulse of the club’s bass filled Fenaro’s ears. It was one of the finer perks of magic in his opinion. He’d left the venue with his new friend – well, ‘friend’ – a good hour ago, but his power kept the music with him, live as electricity. There were […]
Story time! This is a short story I wrote a while back, in a somewhat weird mood. Hope you enjoy! The shrine of Saint Iudon saw few visitors and nearly all of them were fugitives.The surrounding desert didn’t offer much of a congregation, or of anything else. Whoever built the shrine had disappeared long ago […]
I’m posting a poem/story I wrote a while back in response to a 300 word challenge at SFFChronicles. The challenge was a spec fic story inspired by the following image Lonely the Sky, Lonely the Sea Lonely the Sky, Lonely the Sea,When Young Davey McGregor cameA-Seeking Me. I knew well it was himself byThe wistful […]
Magni was well aware that people thought he was stupid. It went with being big and quiet. But while he wasn’t the sharpest, he was far from the stupidest as well.Part of that was that Magni was well aware of his limitations. He refused to make life more complex than he could handle. He was […]
As the others half-slept under the eaves of an inn, Signi sat a little apart from them, fully awake despite her heavy eyes. She had her knees cuddled up to her chest to keep warm and all she did was listen, listen to the sound of the city slowly waking up.Signi was not one for […]
5 Ursula stubbed out the cigar and left the two of them to finish the wine jar. Better to have a word with this Maugris without the others to hear. She opened the door very quietly to find him reading her notebooks. “Do you always read other people’s property?” she demanded from right behind him. […]
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