Dry Eyes, Cold Hearts (Ch. 4)
Mordekai stood over Kage's sleeping form, and simply stared down at him in disbelief. The gathered ShadowPelts had, until now, remained silent, partially from respect for the dead, but mostly from sheer shock. The shock was beginning to wear off now,...
Midnight Secret - Revised
_ **NOTE:** This is the revised version of my MiSe Contest Story. And I will be writing a second part to the story._ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _It was the witching hour, nothing so crude as midnight of course. Anyone can be a witch at midnight...
Dry Eyes, Cold Hearts (Ch. 3)
As he lay on the sand, young Khaejiran's dreams were strange and chaotic. He watched scenes and happenings from a mercurial 1st person perspective as landscapes kaleidoscoped into each other with little regard to sanity, and the noise! He heard every...
Dry Eyes, Cold Hearts (Ch. 9)
She left the camp under cover of pale sunrise, silently padding through the trees. She didn't really _need_ to sneak, but it was good practice, and she loved nothing more than to surprise the lookouts. One in particular, she knew had a crush on her,...
Mystic Heart Odyssey - Chapter 19
_Mystic Heart Odyssey, Chapter 19. Yes, I took a little bit of inspiration from certain spirits from Japanese folklore for this one, albeit very surface-level and mainly based off a certain animated movie. I thought kodama were a neat concept and I...
I, Suspect
"You only married me for my money, you bitch." That was how he greeted me that evening. I sighed, and turned to leave the room. I knew how these arguments played out. In the last month alone, in the simple space of three weeks, I had relived this same...
Marianne's Misty Hike (Part 3): The Mists of Discovery
Kaynell Marie swooped down from the mist and set her brother down on the porch. Her horns curled around her ears and her large leather wings pulled in close without impaling on her many spiky protrusions. Even in this altered and masculine state Ben...
The Last Class on Earth
Sol sits at a desk in the far corner of the immaculate classroom. This being the first day of college, things are rather stressful, especially since there is such an empty feeling in the long echo-drenched halls of the campus. He taps his pencil upon...
Dry Eyes, Cold Hearts (Ch. 2)
Kage walked away from the fire pit with an odd sense of detachment. He recognized that, in two hours when Solus set and Belluosus dawned, he would begin a fight that could easily end with his death. Someone pressed a rough, flat edged stone into his...
The Brightsoul's Grace (Ch. 4)
The soft silence reigned for only a few minutes before they shook off the pall that had fallen over them. "sSo, tell me, Shouyousei. What about you? I've told you my life sstory, where do you hail from? What drivess you into the untamed wilderness,...
The Thief's Exile (Ch. 3)
There was a tiny curling of fear in her stomach, fear of the unknown, but it was overwhelmed by elation and desire to learn. the wolf was pressing ever closer, as she grinned some, a flash of canine fangs. "you're a god, right? he is a god, right?"
End of an Age: Chapter One
A/n: I'm really not sure what to say about this one. Part of me is a bit uncomfortable with it, part of me refuses to let the ideas go from my head until I put this project into motion. Lots of paper reading recently has supplied much of the...