Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
"There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster... Continue Reading →
"I turned my palms up, testing the silver cuffs around my wrists. Though the cuffs were invisble to any eye but mine, it had taken a long time for my paranoia to ease whenever someone's idle gaze lingered on my wrists. They flexed with my movement, a second skin over my own. Only my trapped... Continue Reading →
"Taesia Lastrider had never considered herself a good person, nor did she have any intention of becoming one. She was fine with that. Beyond the confines of her House's villa, she was freer to do whatever she wanted. Be whoever she wanted.The last breath of summer's heat coiled around her as she shifted in the... Continue Reading →
"It hadn’t happened in a moment, but a series of moments, as slow and insidious as the melting of the ice caps. Women had been ushered out of the workplace, so subtly that few noticed until it was too late. There had been no grand lowering of an iron curtain, with passports voided and bank... Continue Reading →
"Everyone remembered firsts. Your first love, first kiss, the birth of your first child, or the sight of your first snowfall. A life was built on the backs of firsts. Shining moments, pins in the timeline, holding who you were together. Acaelus could remember the first time he'd died, a boltgun through the head. It'd... Continue Reading →
"The thing about you, Zhang, is you're one of those people who just gets better in a crisis. You think you're broken. You think you're not strong enough. All I see is that when life throws shit at you, you keep getting stronger."-Paradise-1 by David Wellington Paradise-1 by David Wellington is an epic science fiction... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 