Fall From Grace, Chapter Eleven
After hundreds of years, the gladiator stadium was once more filled with bodies. Once, in a time that many gods could still remember, this building had been the pride of its district. The arena had been stained with the blood of warriors, the stands...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Forty One
He woke to the sound of rain. By now, Sadik had grown so used to the raining of blood, so inured to the sky brimming with a grim red haze, that he immediately knew what was falling upon his face, even as consciousness struggled to rise. The drops were...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Seven
Chaos erupted. It began with a horrified scream. A god pointed at the fallen branches, her cry cutting through the clamor. Heads turned. Eyes widened. Gasps of horror turned to cries of fear, warbling screams of grief. In seconds, the sound was one...
Samsara, Chapter Three
He found them in the back alley of the strip mall, close to a nearby street, where graffiti stained a row of metal doors, and a neighborhood fence crumbled above the concrete. “Hey!” Michael shouted, jogging over. Summer leaned her back against the...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Nineteen
Chaos reigned. Gidros behind him. Thimera in front. A swarm of Exalted in the air, an army of Faustines at his flank. Metal storms, shining wings, dozens of claws. Sadik and Amira had been tossed from the throne by Thimera. She stood above the...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Five
A breeze sliced through the chambers. Curtains billowed through archways. Fires blazed inside the braziers. Hundreds of leaf blades shuddered along the walls, swishing beneath the sharp howl of wind. The four poster bed, adorned with a canopy of linen...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Six
When consciousness returned, Sadik could only move his eyes. Something metallic lived inside him. Like wet cement, it had poured through the cracks in his flesh, setting every inch of his body as hard as stone. His lungs were two hollow shells in his...
Paper Wings, Chapter Four
_I just need to survive._ Ben slunk through the door of fifth period biology almost a minute before the tardy bell, hoping to avoid the crowd that always milled in front of the door. He had his hood pulled up and his gaze flattened down. He avoided...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Ten
He awoke to a warm, soothing light. For a moment, Sadik imagined that he was bathing in the sun once more. Memories filled his mind. Flowers and leaves soaked in the waning cry of dusk. The gentle kiss of dawn, washing away the shadows of a training...
Paper Wings, Chapter Six
Ben braced himself at the door to first period. Over the weekend, he had spent his time playing it cool. He had done all of his homework, completed all his chores, and whittled away the hours playing videogames in the safety of his room. To the...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Four
The goddess of death kept her home darker than Sadik would've liked. Curtains had been draped across columned archways, blocking the view of a terrace. An oculus at the top of a domed ceiling was overgrown with vines and wooden capillaries. Braziers...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Nine
Faustine leaped into the air. Lightning pierced the sky. A bolt of blue against a belly of red, like a tendon yanked from flesh. Grisly light and sheets of blood. For a moment, she seemed a vision of an ancient demon. Four swords held in four arms,...