The myth might wear away, but the truth remains, revealed, remembered. You reach your hand inside your pocket, thankful to be free of gloves now Spring has sprung, the promise of warmer air, tender against your skin, welcome against your open face and hands. Your fingers feel for the smooth round pebble, a hard stone, polished. A prehistoric and permanent...
Life has a way of throwing us into unexpected situations that reveal our true selves. If you asked me a month ago where I thought I'd be, this wouldn't be it. My name is Suleiman Barre and I'm a young Somali man living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Got one hell of a story to share with you folks. This tale took place during Canada Day 2015 in the City of O...
He clumsily makes his way through the dense tropical foliage of the jungle, his bare feet gently touching the mud and grass. He does not want to make a sound, for fear of alerting a tiger, python or other predator. It had been a couple days since the last time he had found any prey for his clan, and he can already feel his stomach rumbling. He is called Aka...
Author's Note: mild wound descriptions, male x male. Inzi is a lion tabaxi and Wyn is a drow elf. * Giving up on sleep, Inzi groaned and sat up from his bedroll. The movement pulled at the wounds that crisscrossed his body. His companions slept on, exhausted from their earlier battle. The group had made a miscalculation in attacking a group of raiders. The...
It had been 7 whole days 7 unbelievably long days 7 brain boggling, heart mutilating, never ending, devastatingly long days. He couldn't take it anymore. He weighed his options, he took 7 whole days to completely analyze the situation, overestimate the repercussions and prepare himself for the worst case scenario, IF they were ever caught. Bianca R...
Chapter 2 - Capture When they made camp at the end of the day, Livvy set up a protective circle. It was easy to do, just required a sharp knife in the dirt and a bit of fiddling with her stone. Raya didn't see what, exactly, as she made sure to look away the second Livvy pulled it from its hiding place between her breasts. Even the smallest glance out of th...
(I really started this story before introducing my characters but it was rampant in my mind and so I typed this first, hence the "B" of Chapter 1. Perhaps later, I will finish Chapter 1-A but for now, I think it is a delightful mystery for you readers to just enjoy... which I hope you do.) * Her steps were shuffled, as if she purposely kept them quieted. T...
Sold!! This is a work of fiction and nothing more. There are will be multiple parts and is a bit long. It is also a little darker than some tales. She had signed the contract just weeks after she turned 18 years old. Her family had been borrowing money for years from a family friend, not realizing how deep in the underworld he was. In order to pay back the...
Thin prisms of light break free from the cloud cover, dance through the north-facing windows of an old English inspired Tudor, bounce off the carved crystal bowl resting atop a marble table across the bed from me and come to a check-mate style stand off right there. The swirling energy of light, throbbing and pulsing against it's constraints, all dressed up...
The girl awakened from the deepest of slumbers. It was the sleep of the dead, she mused as the cobwebs of her dreams slipped from her mind like a dust covered sheet dropping from a long hidden piece of furniture in an abandoned manse. Immediately, she noticed the pitch black of her surroundings. "Why is it so dark," she murmured. Her voice seemed to carry o...