“Here you go miss,” the silversmith beamed as he passed his handiwork to her. Gwenyth marveled at the engraved heartwood staff. With spiked metal cuffs at each end, cast in steel with silver filigree scrolls, it was nothing short of a masterpiece. Dannil would love it. “Thank you, Frank!” Her […]
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Theme Thursday: Ego
Marius swore as he skidded back down the crumbling retaining wall. “Helluva blast, but he’s still out there.” He kicked the half-empty grenade case. “I hate to waste these.”
Theme Thursday: Shiver: Birthright
The wind whistling through the bare forest cut me to the bone. The snow was falling faster now. I stared up at the skeletal branches overhead in despair. My jaunt through the woods to the seer’s hut had turned to a trudge. I feared I would be frozen solid by […]
Theme Thursday: Hush
When I found her she was smiling. The slick cavern walls curved around the Wishing Pool and there at its heart she stood. I scrambled breathlessly into her lair. The chase was over. My dreams had been filled with finding the woman who’d appeared to me night after night, the […]
The Snow Queen
[WP] The cold, frigid, and proud Ice Queen, unable to feel emotion, finds a little boy dying in her frozen wastelands. She decides to keep him. She was on a mission to find peace. My proud queen didn’t admit it to me, of course, but I knew it in my […]
Middlegate Road
Musical Inspiration: Gravedigger, Dave Matthews Band I found myself in a diner. I don’t know how, I don’t know why. When I last closed my eyes it was to a hectic hospital room, on a bed covered in wires and tubes with incessantly beeping monitors. The distant weeping had faded. […]
The Projections
It was cold in the drafty ballroom. You’d think for someone with ‘fuck you money’ they’d make their ballrooms actually hospitable, but you’d be wrong. It seemed like the more rich these people got, the more their true cold blooded nature came out. I stood next to a marble fireplace […]
The Family Hero
There are so many reasons I chose this place. Firstly, it was outside the city gates. This was a major factor to me. I would have moved away to the ends of the earth, but I knew my fate was tied to those who lived within the city walls, so […]
The Survivor
Where to begin. I’ve had so many of those… Beginnings, that is. I’m sick of them. Some would say I’m lucky, but those people are wrong. There is such a thing as too many beginnings, and I’m living proof. Three hundred years at the base of the sacred mountains of […]
The Walking Path
Jesse It seemed to last an eternity, but after long moments, Jesse felt her body go slack. The screaming had stopped, at least. Jesse bowed his head and listened as the night got quieter with each slowing breath from her body. He relaxed the grip of his hand over Abby’s […]