The Coming of a New Age - Chapter 1 - The Entrance...
The plains here were all barren, and white was all you could see for as far as you looked - just snow and ice, nothing more. the palace, with parts of it covered by thick coatings of ice, looked fairly barren as well.
On the Playlist #2
Dead and dying soldiers lay bleeding in the dirt, and the cries of the wounded echoed around the barren plain. the lion turned from the dismal sight to the few warriors that had survived the last charge.
The Golden One
For the wife, now barren longed for a child, and the husband longing for a son. when the husband noticed that the cub had an unusual deformity, a green sliver in his left eye.
Story time with Kalokin
Two gods screamed across the sky over a world of barren rock. a soft sound filtered through the air, music just barely loud enough to hear. a harp, a flute, and a simple drum played a plain, repeating tune that matched kalokin's swaying.
Marasian Morning - For Starling
One by one they find temporary host among one of any barren mannequins. ready to catch the eye of a lucky lady and beckon her within. with jovial spirits and tangible excitement, delta moves to her cherished antique register.
Hybrid
It is about one kilometer by two kilometers, very rocky and barren. waves crash against the sides of it, the erosion over the years making the island shaped like a cone, point sinking into the ocean. no life grows there, and no one sets foot there.
Battle Royale part 1
After a quick goodbye kiss to their famalies they packed up and headed out to the designated quadrant of the system where the base last located them, upon their arrival the boys saw nothing but a single train track and a barren wasteland as far as the eye
Dragon Day Submission: The Hunt for the Cosmic Lantern
She checked the barren walls of the bagel foyer for inspiration. for all the hunting they did, these walls were barren of heads and trophies.
Salt of the New Earth (*Short story*) Part 1 of 3
#1 of salt of the new earth when an exploratory starship crash lands on the barren planet sül, communications officer keane finds himself lost, miles away from his ship.
Galactic Conflict - Chapter Eleven
Reading through it, there was no suggestion of an army being grown there but the growth over such barren land was unusual.
The crystall skull - Short background history
The war lasted for a good 2 years resulting in the destruction of every living being in the local area turning it in a barren wasteland. the people were left without a possibility to grow its own food and the water supply was running dangerously low.
Chiricov- Back Story: Part 1
We were on our annual family vacation, away from the bustling city; at peace in this barren world. this very place, where alpha division was soon to be based, was the place of my first and most tragic memory.