Writing Prompt #2 - "The Endless Night"
“We must perform the divination now.” Five hooded solismages standing within as many equally spaced pedestals raised their hands to the sky in supplication, welcoming the warm embrace of the Sun’s rays shining down upon them. On the main dais...
Creative Writing Exercise #6: Still At Large
A twelve-state manhunt continues for rogue doctor Addisu Nassir, who made international headlines last month by conducting unauthorized human trials of his medical research. Despite no demonstrated health risks in his patients, Nassir made...
FlashFic: After the Funeral
He lies dozing in my arms, finally having cried his fill. I still pet the pup's long, silken headfur tenderly, wishing that I could take away from him some of the pain, but knowing that pain at least as well as himself. It's not an easy thing, losing...
Chaos and Order
Before science had ruled all in it's power of knowledge, the gods had ruled in it's power of the spiritual. But there was a time, before gods where there was only one being, Chaos. This was a time before gods, before science, before the big bang,...
Fiery Essence
**Fiery Essence** The fire raged inside of him. He could feel it surging throughout his body; it filled and fueled his veins. The pulsing beat of his heart spread it all throughout his body. There he stood, trying to harness what lied within. Many...
Writing Prompt #6 - "Fault Line"
FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION: We regret to report that at approximately 4 a.m. this morning, Hayth Tower collapsed. Other buildings in the area may have also been affected, although at this time we do not have a full accounting of the damage....
wave
All your life I rode your wave. Now you're gone I lie still in the bay hoping the tide will wash me away, wishing I didn't have to fight another day. Wishing we could just switch place. But, I know what you'd say. The light you shone didn't go when...
Writing Prompt #1 - "The Library"
You there! Yes, you. Follow me, if you will, and I will show you a place most wondrous and peculiar – a place unlike any in this world, or any other for that matter. It takes a ways to get there, along a path so well trod that banks of dirt...
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf meet again
* * * I have caught myself thinking of my childhood lately; actually just a specific moment. It happened in late elementary school, when I was eight years old. We needed to put on a play based on a classic fairy tale. The class voted, and we...
Vignette: Acts of Intent
> _Lines and curves, lines and curves. Beginning now._ Seven o'clock, and the 13th Street crowd was headed to dinner, or focusing on a postprandial stroll. Jacob was focused on lines. On arcs and straight edges. On corners and angles. > _The cans of...
Between Gods and Gentlemen
the flash of steel had not registered with those around until after the samurai had cleaned and sheathed his blade. it was the thief who screamed first. the body in the blue robes slumped over the bar.
My God Is A Fox
He runs up to the nearest alcove, one of many around the periphery of the church, and snaps a photo, the flash of the camera going off in spite of the large "no flash photography" sign at the entrance. there's a strange stillness in the bustle, however.