It was a day like any other on Sunbeach Island. It was hot and sunny, just a few white clouds staining the light blue sky. There were many ships in the harbor, from nutshells to war ships, their owners as different as the numerous ships. Pirates, bounty hunters, merchants, travelers, marine soldiers and even, once in a while, a slave trader. Some of them see...
The bleak grey sky hung low over the vast, empty badlands. The shadows of vultures flashed occasionally over the sun-blasted dirt and rock as Karith trudged along, eyes down, cap pulled tight over his forehead to keep the sun off his face. It had been four days of this same scene as he traveled east towards the distant mountains which ruled by presence over...
Danger is lurking everywhere in the Blackling Lands. It is a time full of perils, adventures and mystic creatures. Each forest is gloomier and more unforgiving than the other. One must be careful and wise in one’s decisions since each one could be the last… Fina was running. Her legs hurt and her eyes brimmed with tears. She was only wearing a thin dress tha...
It started off as an average day; get up, clean, eat and off to work. You enjoy your work, you went through enough classes and education to get here and you take pride in the time and effort you put in to your work. In the crazy world you live in with people having superpowers; flying through the sky, shooting fire, controlling metal etc. Having a normal lif...
Suddenly, an orange blaze flared in your eye. It came from the window; sitting in the convective haze of your poorly air-conditioned apartment, you hadn’t noticed the sun sinking into the lower reaches of the sky. You get up to adjust the curtain, your first real movement in several hours. You had to wait for a delivery to come in on the app. This town could...
PROLOGUE Clear blue sky. A few clouds of pure white, slowly moving across the azure dome. There's one that looks like a rabbit. Another that is clearly a heart. At least until seconds later when their shape would alter and then become something else. The air was warm - probably low eighties - although I knew that it would become quite cool in a few more hou...
The house had been too good of a deal to pass up. It was only after the deal had gone through and the day before she was to move in that Jennifer found out why the price had been so low. "People claim it's haunted," the real estate agent told her with a wink to show he didn't believe it, but that the local yokels did. Jennifer had laughed at the time. The ho...
I sat down in the plane next to Jason. My heart pounded in my chest. We'd just barely made the flight. I let out a sigh and leaned back. Jason glanced over at me and laid his hand over mine. His touch felt reassuring. A thin stream of cold air blew onto me from the A/C nozzle above my head. I glanced around the drab interior of the plane. There were only a...
We never talk about it. My friends and me. We share intimacies that men wouldn't believe, about our feelings, our children, our finances and even our husbands. But sex, except for some occasional ribald comments about a movie star, is never discussed. We are most respectable. We wear conservative clothes, and do "good deeds". I serve on the hospital board, a...
Lying curled in the front of the low boat, Matilda watched the play of the disappearing stars against the sky. "Do you truly believe they are all safe Eirik?" Matilda asked, nay, almost begged with desperation as she watched the still sea reflect the quickly lightening sky. "They will be fine. You said Ragnar should not be long, he wont, he will be reliab...