Tag: fiction
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Lesser Deniv
Noak flexed his left knee with a grimace, the taut muscles strained and the ache of the bones told him that the sudden low pressure was bringing in a storm. The cargo door whined as he held the button that raised the metal panel and lowered the ramp. He could smell the moisture on the…
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Nymph’s Sanctuary
Lex had been traveling with Aydin for nearly a fortnight when they came to the dense cluster of trees and he told her they must dismount their horses and continue on foot. The trees were tall and old, with moss and vines encasing their trunks. Under their shady branches the bright morning light turned into…
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Eight Years Later
I was a child when the bombs fell, great flashes of light on the horizons that I watched through the handheld screen of a tablet. I remember the cake that my mother had brought home sitting on the counter with a plastic case over it so I couldn’t get my fingers into the colored icing.…
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Okur
It was dark when my eyes opened. It was a struggle to move through the heavy ichor that surrounded me, it weighted each muscle and held me encased. As my awareness grew I realized that I had been cold, but was now warming. As the warmth grew I was able to move, the substance holding…
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Becoming A Lady
Lilliana looked upon the chest of bright pinkish-lavender silks baffled as to how she was supposed to wear them. Picking up the edge of a skirt, she draped it over her head and pulled length after length of fabric until she found herself suddenly encased in a tent of silk. Tawna bowed her head to…
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Winnie’s Portrait
Jeremy exhaled slowly as his brush tip finished the lines of his signature “Jeremy Tacit” on the corner of the page. From the breast pocket on his shirt a little pixie popped out. She was small, with dark eyes, russet hair, and a deeply tanned body encased in green and orange feathers. She reached out…
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A Trip North
Aydin decided it was time to leave Carsiol since his ruse for pretending to be of the common folk was well known by the people. He needed a new town. As he thought about it, he thought of his brothers in their respective domains, cold castles and secluded manors that they rarely set foot out…
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Elissa and Torin
Torin sat with Elissa on the banks of the creek where they had met when they were children. Their feet dangled in the water and the passing fish occasionally stopped to nibble at their toes. It was a companionable silence between them as they listened to the birdcalls on the breeze and the gentle rhythm…
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Tea at Burlynn
“Really, Father, must I go?” Carina asked with impatience, storming after her father while her maid rushed after her with a parasol and gloves. “I’m not even meant to debut this season.” Gauvin Lucassen turned round and faced the daughter he had spoiled into a headstrong young woman. She had delayed her debut by insisting…
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Moon Prince
Lilliana was sweating under the weight of the heavy woolen cloak. Despite the shade of the forest, the summer sun reigned high overhead and made all of the apprentices warm. In three days the equinox would be upon the Mildian village, but before then the apprentices who had come of age needed to be assigned…
Paper and Rabbits 