390 In The High Places

Save Point: In The High Places The Battle Of Kalikshutra "_What is this place?" she demands, of curiosity, when they come to a height on which seven spurs of yellow-grey stone, like the bones of the world exposed, curve upward to form a cradle...

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650 Cat Versus Wilderness

Save Point: Cat Versus Wilderness Somewhere On Exmoor It is late at night and fully dark and they are in some remote country place, complete with grass and bush and overgrown thickets and all the other staples such an environment demands. Cleo is...

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991 Death as a Bookstore Lyonesse

Save Point: Death As A Bookstore Lyonesse Aftertime Death has disguised itself as a marbled lyonesse in its hiding place behind the bookstore. I know Death of old and it is a beautiful capricious shapeshifting thing that enjoys bringing down the...

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155 Skills With The Lance

Save Point: Skills with the Lance Tournament Field, Uruk "What do you think of my shield?" says Cleo hopefully, raising the decidedly standard-issue buckler in display. There's a reason she doesn't normally lug a shield around with her, despite...

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251 The Solar Barque

Save Point: The Solar Barque Sethkill is proudly showing Mariel around the boat-pits as though he was responsible for them, even though he is neither building nor designing the vessel that will become the new Vermillion Dragon. That responsibility...

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461 The Implicate Order

Save Point: The Implicate Order The Dragons wings are like crystal fracture planes across spacetime, dislocating the light as it passes through. They drift subtly back and forth even whilst at rest, moving around themselves in strange and...

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381 The Nuclear Dance

Save Point: The Nuclear Dance The Wound In The World "The locals call it Crescent-Moon Bay or Half-Moon Bay, because it forms an unusually perfect semi-circle. But there's another name for it too, that seems to be something out of folklore - 'The...

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406 Temporal Dislocation

Save Point: Temporal Dislocation "Good news. I have finally figured out exactly where we are!" concludes Terrowne, hopping into their bed beside her and snuggling up close. It's cold out in the night air and a big warm lioness is great to cuddle up...

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Cold Principles

I also decided to try a non-linear narrative style with this story. honestly, not really sure it was a good idea. this is my first time using this type of narrative and i kinda want it to be the last.

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Kickaha's Day Off

But then again, non-linear geography was the only way the hollow earth theory made sense.

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Careful What Wish You Grant

Well, more likely non-linear geography was at work here. he had technically walked in a straight line. but he always ended up back where he started. so how did he get out? he was sure the wish had been about a game.

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The Perils of Owning a Multi-Dimensional Small Business

"okay, so i know there's the whole non-linear time thing going with you." kickaha did his best not to think about how it worked. "but why didn't you just tell me before you went downstairs?" "i did! at least this is before!

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