Nobody's Servant, Part 15 - The Ulgengir District
I wake to the sound of quiet chatter, slowly raising my head. Initially I don't recognize where I am, but the moment of confusion is only that, and the events of yesterday come back to mind. Every event does, unfortunately. The sudden return of...
Just Living: Introduction
I can't possibly imagine seeing myself among the crowds, at least not alive and well. I am at all times outside of my comfort zone and for all purposes a ghost. I cannot be seen or heard by any single person or thing and I'll be just fine, or at...
Prolouge
Lavender morning light was just breaching the horizon when the bell sounded above the front door of the twenty-four hour coffee shop on the corner of my block, announcing my arrival. This was where I ended my daily run, got my caramel machiato and...
Life Review
The building was a square little plot of aged wood and green paint, with a tall, slanted roof of red shingles set atop the second floor, and large curtain-less windows that faced out in all four directions. There was a walkway that lead up to it, made...
Cinders and Shadows (Chapter 4)
Chapter four: The end of an era, and the beginning of something bigger Well there I was, alone. Snow was who knows were and I wasn't sure what to do. I could go back to our house in the school, but there wasn't much to do there. Most of my energy had...
Cinders and Shadows (chapter 2)
Chapter Two: Life on the streets Life on the street was great. It may sound weird, but I loved it. I wandered around the first day, pondering on how I was going to get a decent meal. I had standards, I may have been living on the street but I was not...
Silverback Episode 4
In the weeks that passed the window was repaired and there was never a sign of the felines again. Life went on like it always did. Snow worked out and I cured ferals of their ailments. But something wasn't right. I felt a tugging inside me. It was...
[Draft] Mundane
Pop. Pop. Crackle. I lay by the glowing hearth, flames dancing in front of me. Sounds of water tap, tap, along the roof and windows. It is so easy to fall asleep these days. The gentle crackling of fire, rhythmic taps of rain on the roof, the...
Search for Geneva's heart chapter 2
As we flew over the tree tops, our home slowly disappeared behind us. Looking forward, I prayed silently to Fenrir that we make it back in time before the village was forced to move. An sharp pain stung my heart as my throat tightened with sorrow....
My Arctic and Me: “How We Came to Be”
It was a dark, stormy early-spring night in Jasper. The trees seemed to writhe in the gusty wind. I'd barely made it into my dugout den ahead of the rain and settled down to wait out the storm. Then the thunder and lightning came. I cowered down into...
Makai - chapter 1
Makai It dances like two Thompson gazelle, this waterfall; males competing for a female. Their horns clash and their hooves strike the ground, pushing off. Dust drifting from beneath them, each strike a maximum expression of their ability to take and...
Aberration, Part 6 - Finally
My captor slides me into her palm, a single thread of saliva acting as the last leash tying me to the prison of her carnivore teeth; it snaps as she holds me out at arm's length. Exposed to the elements once more, I blanket myself in tails to hide my...