The Reveal (a fragment)
The Reveal (a fragment) by H. A. Kirsch Copyright 2013 --- This is a fragment, possibly an early draft of a chapter from a novel I'm working on. Most likely, the finished product won't be very much like this. A lot of stuff has happened before this...
Creative Writing Prompt #4: Doubts
I was most proud of my lovely floppy ears, before. They always set me apart from the other toys, others like big ol' bear. I was a little jealous of big ol' bear, sometimes, because he was always so good at hugs. She would pick...
Memo: August 26, 1987 (Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth, Part II)
**August 26, 1987** MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Intelligence THROUGH: Deputy Director of Science and Technology Deputy Director of Operations SUBJECT: Degory Chandler Diary 1. I...
The Mansion
**1 – The Portrait** At the front of the hall hung a portrait painted in oils: a woman in a gown and corset, with dark lips and darker hair. Its eyes didn't follow the viewer so much as pierce through them. Though its mouth curled down into the...
Guro Challenge #25: Organs
Blaggut supposed Slipp was right, he was an idiot; a clever beast would have asked what the word "quarantine" actually meant before going to find out for himself. Of course he'd been caught and thrown out, amid many curses from the healers (he didn't...
The Blood Which Binds
In a mucky inlet of the life-giving Erbad river, the sun beating on his sore-riddled scales, Nawaz the Poet limped from the bank. This had been his every morning for the two years since his affliction began. Hakka's strong young hands gingerly...
A Fox in the Dark: Chapter 7
Content warning: the following chapter includes some body horror and the eye scream trope. * * * chapter 7 shanlai whirled at the strange voice that seemed to come from behind her, leveling her rapier toward the sound.
Gesshru Chapter 3
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Chapter 3 My name is Freya Savitri, and I have just awoken from a dreamless sleep. Sleep in english. Dormir in Spanish. Yuzu in Azerbaijani. Neend in Hindi. Spat in Russian. Somnum in Latin. Sen in Polish. Usingizi in Swahili....
Radioactive Toy (or The Post-Apocalypse Pygmalion) Part 3
The day's travel was much as before. Travelling in the cooler air then as the day drew to midday, it became unfeasibly hot. There was no shelter but that of a crevice where the road had buckled so much it resembled a cliff. Under its brief shade, he...
Hypnovember '23: Executive Dysfunction
Executive Dysfunction God, I'm so lazy. The mantra echoes over and over, bouncing off the inside of my skull in a constant drone. It's background noise, like traffic, or the birds. Not that I can hear either of those things at the...
Light Bane: Chapter 17
The light over Pol Hain came so unexpectedly that the people living in the town did not realize they would soon lose their homes and face a crisis comparable to that of the dragon wars, one that...
Meeting in that Tavern for the Second Encounter
Also just as a forewarning there is a bit of minor body horror in this story. i want to add also that the character of bonebreaker mentioned towards the end belongs to bonelessroo who used to be on twitter. all other characters in this story are mine.