Sacred Effigies Stories

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Receiver of Many Ch. 04

by sushi_taco on Jan 6, 2020
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4. Demeter and Kore emerged from the blades of barley into a rolling grassy meadow surrounded by groves of trees, each grove sacred to a deity. Nysa was the eternal field of the gods, and Kore's home as a child. She had played with her friends here. Kore remembered Ares swinging a wooden sword against the grasses under the watchful eye of Hera. Little Apoll...

Wrestling in the Metropolitan

by goldenmyst on Aug 20, 2018
Mature

My hawk gaze follows her in the saffron skylight of our cathedral of solitude. I have hidden for three days in the ruins of this building which once soared into the heavens. I look at her with thirsty eyes and drink in the vision of woman. It has been months since I've seen a female of the species. I sometimes contemplated that I might be the last person on...

Not English

by oggbashan on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays

* * * * * Copyright Oggbashan October 2005 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. * * * * * Halloween is not an English tradition. It has been imported into England over the last twenty years as a transatlantic festival. It is not surprising that we get it wrong. There was an English tradition on 31st October. On...

Glade and Ivory Ch. 26

by bradley_stoke on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas

Glade was the only one of the captive Mammoth Hunters who knew what to expect. It was much more startling for the other expedition members when at last, after trudging for most of the day through the fresh snow across a long flat plain, their captors brought them to the Cave Painters' settlement by the mountainside. This comprised of the mouths to several ca...

Midnight Hours

by aesirnights on Apr 22, 2025

Every child knows the tale of Jarah, our ancient homeland far across the sea. Every year on the day of Landfall, the effigies of the old gods are brought forth and burned, while the bards tell of the folly of the elves, the hubris of the dwarves and the greed of men which brought that land low and **** our people to flee across the sea. The tale I tell, you'...

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The Watchers in the Garden

by TamLin01 on Jul 13, 2020
NonHuman

"When the sons of men had multiplied, beautiful and comely daughters were born to them. And the Watchers, the sons of heaven, saw them, and desired." -The Book of the Watchers *** The king—who was so wealthy that he never ate twice from the same golden dish, and who could have spent the rest of his life counting the jewels in his vaults and died without...

Witch-Hunter General

by xelliebabex on Sep 16, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Authors note: Here is my Halloween story for 2014, hope you enjoy. * The self-proclaimed Witch-Hunter General, Matthew Hopkins, rode into the small village of Mistlea expecting to see the church flock greet his arrival with rabid anticipation and old hags already in custody. His reputation since hanging a coven of twenty-three witches at Manningtree for d...

Reseeding The Land

by Candell on Sep 16, 2017
NonHuman

David slid his hand up and down his cock slowly. He tried to concentrate on something that would speed this along, but was drawing a blank. The cold lumpy ground under his ass wasn't helping. He hadn't thought to bring along something comfortable to sit on. With his free hand he poked at the fire with a long stick. That was at least successful and the blaze...

Receiver of Many Ch. 02

by sushi_taco on Dec 23, 2019
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Moist soil gave way to tender blades of grass and a host of flowers. Kore waved her hand over the barren earth at the banks of a stream and bright green shoots appeared in its wake. A twirl of her fingers drew gentle buds up from the ground. "Larkspur, milady?" said Minthe, brushing her blonde hair behind one ear. "I doubt your mother would want even more...

A Goddess's Tail

by OX2 on Sep 16, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

It'd been almost a week since my weird encounter in the woods and I'd churned the event around in my head enough to turn it into curiosity. I made a decision to stop by the Library after work and see what they had on witch craft, arcana and other just plain weird rituals. I walked in the door, the setting sun throwing my shadow before me. It wasn't very cro...