Take my hand
?When thinking about spa facilities, people often mislabel it as boring, overpriced snoozefest for rich narcissists. But that wasn't the case for those places, neither here in Blue Lagoon, which offered much more than a painfully clichè name. It...
YCH "Insolence"
Who said that mortality is associated only with something feeble and insignificant? And who said that summoning rituals were tied to gloomy basements, in pitch black darkness, to the sounds of reverse played heavy metal music? While away from...
Not another job hunting
"Shoot!" The sudden cry, followed by a muffled thump, sounded between the trees. Luckily, it wasn't an order, commanding someone to fire a weapon, literally. Apparently, the gentle cursing belonged to a canine creature, who involuntarily showed...
Ascension
Should we be afraid of god? Not The God, but any divine, powerful being, omnipotent and omniscient? What if we could reach such, currently beyond reach, levels. Should we be afraid of ourselves? - Is it going to work? The spoken words drowned...
Sentinels Youth Part 2
Tsumé let out a sigh after reading the email, lowering her phone and looking up to the sky in exasperation as she walked. "Okay... Well that was a bust. Didn't even give me an interview," she said. "Why is it so hard to get an after-school job? I...
The Temple of Tikal
It had not been easy to convince Lighris to let him go back out, but hiding at the house out on the acreage was even getting to an introvert like Volcan. Eventually his brother caved and allowed Volcan to go back to street performance without a fuss -...
Sentinels: Obscurity Pt. 3
The massive semi-truck rumbled along the highway through the night, loud music booming from the cab as it went. Inside, the driver was tapping his fingers on the wheel to the beat of the song that was playing, humming the buildup to the chorus while...
Out Of The Bag
In a youngster's life in school, especially the college years, people often prioritize image over everything. Even the bookworms work hard to be not behind their schedule, recognized by the fellow students while gathering together in study sessions....
The Best, Worst Show
Wicked Jerry's Amazing Circus had a high reputation, despite its peculiar name. But anyone could get something to ease their minds in these difficult times, from wonderful acrobatics, skilled but somewhat terrifying clowns, to unreal personas like a...
Like A Thorn In The Eye
Almost all of the intelligent species across the universe have their own version of hell, often linked to eternal pain and torture, or just plain boredom within extremely hold or cold environment. It was all true, but not like those species imagined...
North and South Chapter 14: Growing (Arc 7 Epilogue)
A few days had passed since the teams had left Hadleigh, drifting through the skies over the sea of trees between the city of art and Port Azure. Everyone enjoyed the time to relax and unwind from the long mission, but it was clear that the...
North and South Chapter 13: A Lead
Kage stirred uncomfortably in his sleep. He felt like he was floating, yet in his dreams he was trapped in a cell. A cell in which the longer he stayed, the weaker he felt. His comrades, Fisher and Reaper, trapped in neighboring cells looking as ill as...