Smoldering Synthetics
Alex looked out the passenger door window and found herself staring at the seemingly same stretch of flat grassy expanse, sometimes punctuated by a rock or a tree. She frowned and turned to Kelly. "Are you sure you know where you're going?" She...
Raptor Rave
Hayes tapped the CausDok and snorted with impatience as the light atop of it still failed to glimmer gold. He folded his arms across his chest as he thought about how comms had been more reliable on Zerin I, and that had been a planet wracked by ion...
Availix
The lobby was jam packed full of people with names, numbers, and notices all strapped onto shirts, waiting to be called. In the current economy, one had to do what one needed to to survive, even if it meant testing out experimental pharmaceutical...
Shadow Streams
Konrad smirked as he started the stream. "Boys," He said into a mic comfortably close to his mouth while he stared into the computer mounted webcam. "We are live!" He flicked his gaze to the stream chat, his smile widening as he saw the viewer...
Doelusion
Addison glanced around the room. There was an overstuffed chair, a chaise longue not too far in front of it, a small coffee table behind it, and a bookshelf full of thick books on the mind, the conditions of the mind, and other equally academic...
Required Role
It was the middle of the tourney and here Sir Brice was pulled away from it, to be chided out of sight in some tucked away tent by some woman he barely knew. She stood before him, arms folded over her large chest, as she berated him in a tone that...
Due Date
Five days. It had taken Goding five days to reach the small farming village, and now he had five days to make the due date. Five days of traversing roads well worn and still traveled years after the fall of the empire, five days of counting down...
Mirror Peer Remastered
"Valedictorian of Whispervale Academy, the most prestigious magical academy a human can hope to get into, record holder for the highest marks yet achieved in their dreadfully difficult final exam, and a graduation with a mastery of mysticism and aura...
You Will Do
You lift the chalice from the altar to your lips and look down just in time to see the shadows swirling in its confines. You yelp and let it go, the chalice falling and rolling with a rattle that echoes throughout the halls, but what you pay attention...
Mistaken Mixture
Amber had made a mistake. Actually, Amber had made a few mistakes, but they weren't her fault, really. As directed by her mentor Konrad, the intern had been happily restocking the components kept in storage, daydreaming of her future in the lab,...
Tigress Trap
Deiser kicked a rock and sighed as he watched it bounce off the dull brown stone of the cavern's walls. That's all there was to this place--miles and miles of stone and sometimes rocks that seemingly led to nowhere with a taste of nothing in between....
Subjugating Summoning
Deiser had everything he needed to accomplish the summoning: a worn purple tome that contained the ritual, candles set up in a strange though circular shape according to the diagram within the tome's worn pages, and a large axe, his weapon of choice,...