Gryphon in the Woods - Chapter 1
1 Night brought relief - both from the heat and from the anxiety of the prior day's discovery. But, with dawn fast approaching, the gryphon ducked out his lair and picked his way down to the forest floor. With a throaty rumble, he stretched, working...
Integration: Part Thirteen
**Integration** **Part 13** Kira's blue eyes slowly tracked the small, fluttering insect as it lazily darted around the glow of the light wedged in between the shrubbery. It was a stupid little thing, smacking against the light again and again,...
Writing Advice: Show, Tell, Adverbs and Others
Writing Advice: Show, Tell, Adverbs and Others In the last couple of entries, I've covered a number of topics on the periphery of actual writing: things to consider before getting started to get in a productive space, examining motivation. It's...
A Visit From My Brother
My brother can be difficult to stay mad at. Earlier today, I found myself wondering about his choice of friends. Growing up, it was a sticking point between him and our parents. He always chose, in our parents' words, "the most undesirable of...
Destiny With A Dragon - Chapter 11
**Chapter 11: Shattering The Mirror Of Time** * * * Toothless's jaws clamped hard. He could feel his jaw bones ache and moan from the strain. The cold metal in his mouth would not break or release for anything. Not even the strength of a dragons...
Kaden's story (short version)
Fire is scary. Kaden could not always control his fire. Although his school and family helped him control it, no one saw a use for it. They just thought of it as a form of destruction. He was laughed at by everyone. The coon felt useless. Eventually,...
Kids on the Brain part 2
Next installment, Wes and Blake are not mine, they belong to Komatose, my characters are Gale, Drago, Jesse, and the twins who's names I will reveal in this part. On to the...
A Night to Forget Pt. 2: The Game of Life
It's strange. My depression, I mean. I don't think I totally understood it for the grand majority of my life. It just came at some point, unpacked and stuck around. Granted, yes, I've already given you a couple reasons regarding just why I'd want to...
U.O.P.I Chapter 1 page 4
The next day I woke up and booked a train ticket to London, I felt that it was time for me to start looking into my archive. -Later that day- I arrived at the Ministry of Legal Rights, I walked up to this big wooden desk, there was an old fox sat...
Life by the Page 8
8 Leon sat by one of the windows in the quaint little old building that was Gabe's Café. The window pane was old and misty so you couldn't see much through it, but he liked to sit by it anyway because it let more light into the place. Gabe stood...
Sirius: Book Three - Project EPSILON: Chapter 7: Exams
Chapter 7: Exams Worn crimson paint against a charred silver backdrop wrapped round the Phoenix. Hanging as it was in the endless void, while hurtling around the small blue-green planet nearby, the craft's bay doors were pulled slowly open in...
A Memoir.
It was a clear and cool autumn day when I realized something was wrong with me. While I cannot remember his name clearly, for the time that has passed since I left Milwon was long enough for mulberry fields to turn into turquoise seas, I had a close...