Breaking the Meta
"Boy, this is gonna be a trip." Stretching his white linen gloves tighter over his wrists, the black mage stared down the nebulous cave entrance marred by toothy stalactites at its rim. "Looks like it's just you and me for now." "Really? And...
Counting Sheep
Adrian's eyes creaked open. Everything was dark, beset by the shadow of the twilight hours he so despised being awake during. The sheep was little more than a moth without light, lost in its absence. A soft snoring rustled his attention, startling...
A Night to Forget Pt. 3: Loose Ends
Let me tell you one thing: it was goddamn cold. I'd taken to walking pretty much as far as I could after that revelation, and though not a day had quite passed yet, I'd caught no sign of being tailed. I mean thank God, sure, but I will say the whole...
Soft Spot
He was running. There was only one thought that he could manage beyond his will to get to safety and stay hidden; it was him mentally remarking that he found himself running far too often in his lifetime for a healthy expectancy. Turning a corner, Rey...
Innocence ch. 3
There are only a couple words in my entire vernacular that could describe how I felt when I saw Darrian again. One was 'bittersweet', but, barring words that I couldn't name on a whim which would describe it better, the other was 'damning'. I had to...
Innocence ch. 2
Damned if I do, damned if I don't. My choice was never the issue, nor was it the option. Sometimes I wondered if the collapse of choice in society would rend it apart, or coax something far too alien for it to comprehend. There were many possible...
Moving Forward
If he hadn't mentally asked himself if he was awake to a near-point of semantic satiation for all three words of the question, at some point having become aware of his own senselessness and inanity, Rey probably wouldn't have realized that he had woken...
The Wardston Conspiracy
----The sun would likely have shone about midway through the sky and brought clarity to Dexter's vision along the floor, at least were it not for the two layers that obscured its presence; the first a cover of thick clouds, the second a ceiling of...
Every Thorn has its Rose
When a sigh is what starts the day, one usually gets a feeling of foreboding. The day's going to drag on, it's going to be boring and agonizing, and there's nothing to do to prevent it, only to trudge through it. Fortunately, this did not feel to be so...
In Medias Res
The sound of a door being knocked upon drowned out all others--it was the most prominent, if only to Rey. The constant chatter of inane conversations stories above could certainly be heard, but were far too easily ignored. Right now, the only thing...
A Day in the Undersector
"This is the Undersector..." "Good one, sleuth. Welcome--grab a seat, have some tea." Another retorted, words dripping with sarcasm. The second, a brown bull, fiddled with all sorts of mechanical parts and doohickeys completely abstract to the lynx...
No Man's Land
"You're sure about this, Rey?" "Yep. I've thought about it, and the positives definitely outweigh the negatives." The white rabbit stood before a towering wall that smelled faintly of pine, colored some indistinct dark color, next to it a gaping hole....