At the foothills of the mountains, surrounded by a dense forest was the small village of Koletis. It was said to be founded in the seventh century by a small band of travelers who were looking for a place to start anew and escape the oppression of their greedy overlord. Over time, they developed trade with other villages in the region, usually just beyond th...
Green meadows grazed through certain man's skin, who was yawning the fifth time. The man's appearance seemed to be just mundane. He had short black hair. The back of his hair came til end of the neck and front hair covered only half of the forehead. He was was topless only wearing his bunker. Yawning for sixth time, he finally stood up gazing at the golden s...
Copyright Oggbashan November 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. Most of the conversations are assumed to be in Spanish but reto...
We girded ourselves for the hunt in kilts and light armored breastplates, then ate honey cakes and fruit. After a blessing from the High Priestess, off we ran into the jungle. We ran for two days, sleeping at night hidden in the branches of the trees. The morning of the third day, we came down out of the jungle and into a vast plain. We could see a collecti...
Copyright Oggbashan December 2017 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. This story is set at the time of the Hundred Years War. Convers...
Authors note: I have edited this chapter as I prepare to finish off the story. It was originally written a few years ago and my style of writing has changed a little since then. While the content won't have changed much the reading of it should be smoother. Enjoy! ~Ellie Cities of Power Ch. 1 The Great War had taken its toll on the lives of the generations...
There were very few Ocean People who welcomed Demure's presence in their village. But those few included all the elders and older marriageable men. And amongst these few, Demure was respected if not necessarily liked and recognised as someone who made a voluble, perhaps even valuable, contribution to the village's debates. Glade was sure she wasn't the only...
"It's perfect! We have to buy it!" Lisa was standing in the kitchen of the cottage. Her husband Mark smiled. The roof beams of the kitchen just skimmed his head. But they both loved the cottage, built in the 1600s and extended many times since, and they loved the small, isolated village on the wild Norfolk coast. House hunting out of London, they had stumb...
Isn't Simona the most beautiful girl you have ever seen? I have admired her for as long as I can remember. She is just a little older than me and I have known her all my life. She had always looked out for me and taken care of me. I wanted to protect her. The men in the village, they all looked at her. I saw them. They looked at her with disdain. I couldn't...
The five black football players were on their way to the Bermuda islands to shoot a commercial as a strange cloud appeared. As the plane flew in to the cloud it started to get engine problems and soon the engines had cut out and they were going down. Down on an island two people, a man and a woman stood and watched the strange cloud as something they did n...