The Wolf of the Night
The Wolf of the Night By Foxpiper Oh, wolf of the night, what darkness you bring, Your howling announces the setting sun; Over sacred forests where your brethren sing, To the rising moon, a wondrous one. As a child of Fenrir, I see in your...
Prologe of the Fox
Prologe The forest is laced intimately within a thick web of shadows. Sparce and scattered pieces of sun light pierce through the the dense wall branches and leaves present in the thick canopy above, giving the rays of light the likeness of...
Creative Writing Prompt #2: Nature Scene
_Sitting Under a Weeping Willow Tree_ A small, sleeping red fox sits beneath the weeping willow tree, its fur a vivid orange of captured sunlight resting beneath the soft green of the tree's branches. Its eyes are closed in its peaceful slumber, a...
Black Tea (Pt. 1)
- - - Unimaginably long ago, before the conception of recorded history itself, Nyaesira had preserved the balance of the cycle of life. It was the deity's chief responsibility to ensure that no species would set in motion a chain of events that could...
Speech 1. Man among Machines.
People are enslaves by greed that they lock themselves inside a room of hatred. They blame others for their own despair, and as so they do not care anymore, and in return are not cared for. These kinds of people are machines, with machine heads and...
Forest Friend 2 -- chapter 1
He leaned forward on the table, hunching over decades' worth of initials crudely etched into the worn maple, but the border collie could barely keep his attention on the book spread between his paws. He found himself reading the same paragraph over and...
The Young Wild -- chapter 2
# Chapter 2 Evan left before dawn, as he said he would, early enough to avoid a round of lengthy farewells. Bryn didn't even get to see him again, and this set his day off on a distinctly melancholy note. But Clover prepared him a breakfast of tender...
The Young Wild -- chapter 6
# Chapter 6 K.C. sank her teeth into the fat slice of mushroom. She shut her eyes to fully savor it, a smoky char playing on her tongue. "It's been literally forever since I had some _good_ grilled shrooms!" she moaned to Hazel, still chewing....
A walk at the side of the ditch
A walk at the side of the ditch Deep in the woods at the edge of the town there is a ditch. A small groove, nothing spectacular, following the winding path leading uphill. You rarely see it. It is overgrown by thick undergrowth, repelling...
End of an Era
What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...
"God" is a Child
I used to think that the Christian god hated Humanity. After all, he takes great pride in the amount of people he's killed, orders genocidal crusades which he justifies by saying that he's God and knows all, and he even messes with the minds of...
The Far Side of Immortal
Nick Dietrich kicked restlessly at the exoskeletons that littered the floor of his cave. The wolf's fur had gone ragged, and his skin clung to his body like a taut canvas over his aching bones. Food was scarce in these times, after all. How...