Hypnovember 9 - Collar

You feel the tug, the gentle insistence that tells you where to follow. You're not sure when you started to feel the tug. You're not sure of much before this moment, now that you think of it. And now you don't even think about that. The tug doesn't...

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Hypnovember 7 - Song

"_Come to me my darlings! Let your hearts follow--_" the hawk hovering above the ship suddenly stopped her angelic singing as her eyes laid on the deck. Naked as the day she was born, the hawk's only covering was the harp she held underneath her...

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Hypnovember 3 - Stage

Andres had never been to the carnival. Such a thing always seemed more like a small-town activity, not for city folk like him. He hadn't come to the circus today, either. Clutched between the elephant's sausage fingers was a ticket for the newest...

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Hypnovember 30 - Awaken

Your sleep is as dreamless as it is restful. Your eyelids are slammed shut, unaware of anything outside of them--unaware you have eyelids at all. Your mind does not race. It is still like the night. No matter the obligations you had before or the...

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Hypnovember 28 - Unaware

Professor Matei cleared his throat. The sound bounced and echoed throughout the lecture hall. However, when the murmurs of his students didn't quell, he repeated the gutteral noise with just a little more oomph. The chatter didn't cease. If anything,...

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Hypnovember 27 - Recording

The bull slammed his car door shut with a hoof. Maybe Maxwell locked it, maybe he didn't. That was the furthest thing on his mind. All that mattered was that work was done. Friday had come. Soon, he could unwind and the stress of the week would be far...

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Hypnovember 26 - Fey

"Kog, this isn't you! So let go, you giant idiot!" The puma tabaxi elbowed his former orcish companion in the face. The impact forced the titan to release the party's wizard. Although, he looked anything but orcish now. His smooth green skin had become...

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Hypnovember 25 - Resist

The swirling patterns appeared before the tanuki's eyes in thick milky swathes. The sweeping beautiful blues and yellows twinkled and danced in midair as though painted by an invisible brush. They hooked Cole's attention in with their pretty,...

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Hypnovember 24 - Drink

"Hey now, let's take it easy. We can still discuss this like gentlemAHHHH--!" A dagger thunked into the wooden wall, inches from the satyr's floppy goat ear. Across his hollow, underneath the roots of a great tree, a...

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Hypnovember 22 - Goo

Leif couldn't believe his luck. On one of his walks to gather herbs from the forest, he stumbled across an old tunnel that bore deep below the earth. Though large for a kobold, the gold-scaled kobold knew his way around a burrow network. And what a...

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Hypnovember 21 - Snap

SNAP! A rupture of sound ripped through the air, right into the tiger's brain. He nearly lost hold of his solo cup as his body slouched. The party was rowdy, Lester's house packed to bursting. Yet, the sounds of his friends and drunken mayhem...

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Hypnovember 20 - Possession

"HAHA, UP WE GO!" Carter heard his own voice shout whimsically as his arms jerked upwards against his will. A smile spread across his face at the whim of the spectral puppet strings only he could see connected to his lips. In the reflection of the...

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