"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.06 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Adrasta typically avoided the larger islands and, usually did not descend below the level of the cloudlands. The only people who usually saw them were raiders. Sometimes they might brave a smaller cloudland to forage for food but such visitations left...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.05 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Just over a week was the actual travel time but it felt like thirty days. Dorath was small for a duskland but large for a day- or cloudland. The enchanted ores keeping it afloat had been fading for centuries. It and its sister island, Carath, had...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.13 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
"I am truly sorry; I'm an architect: not a doctor." Kelmore stood back as the rest gathered around Yar's broken form. The derroni, unable to save him, had at least closed his eyes. The tahvic, through all his wounds, looked not as much at peace as he...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.12 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Higher up in the city, above the myriad narrow avenues, alleys, stairwells, and streets, the moaning of the winds was much louder. It blew across the lintels of the wide open arched windows looking down upon Seva. The setting sun cast its lengthening...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.11 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
"Eilekarra, in many ways, was the Kellendar of its time. Located on the island of Alamar, it was a unification of nine disparate kingdoms under one rule." Kelmore sat on a small, smooth stone bench outside the third gate. He wove the mystic rites of...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.10 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Hammer and tongs beat with the rhythm of pain from within Kelmore's skull. He tried to scream but he couldn't breathe. Forge-like, the heat inside his brain blazed white-hot as if someone were trying to forge it into a weapon. Colors exploded before...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" ch.09 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Climbing stairs, the first thing in the morning, was not Adam's idea of a good start to the day. He'd done it, before, of course: and not just in this world. Back home, in his first apartment, the elevator never worked and he worked overnight at a...
"Skylands: The Third Gate" chapter 4 (NaNoWriMo 2015)
Mummified and dry, the cadavers strode silently but gracefully, from the Astinato's gangplank. Each carried a richly-carved, deeply stained wooden chest, clasped in bronze fittings. Two black-and-blue-robed young girls preceded them with an old faerie...
Never Let That Damn Thief Out Of Sight
Only one of the giant reptiles was left standing at the start of the fox’s turn, the beast staring down at the sylvan lord with ferocious frenzy.
Everything Goes Green (Parts I-III: Commission For Kybal Lutra)
...by what malignancy had they come to these strange, sylvan mutations?
A Little Group Action
Both the wolf and his vulpine cohorts had been busy. The three of them must have visited every gay bar in town over the past week. Judging by the number of guys who'd come home with them, their charms had been nearly impossible to refuse. How many...
Colony at Cat's Paw
._ **colony at cat's paw** ©2013 sylvan scott de-orbit burn exhausted, _stellar one_ arced like a silver fish across the choppy green-blue clouds above bandis colony.