The Beautiful Mountain
The Beautiful Mountain (08/16/2020) Standing in the distance, I gaze across the sea, And sea a mountain yonder, It's looking back at me, So innocent and pure, So glorious and vast, It's tugging at my heartstrings, My...
The Love Song of a Warrior-Poet
The Love Song of a Warrior-Poet By Mantrid Brizon You are like the verdant fields, so radiant and vast. With curves like the mountain ranges and a smile as wide as ocean blue. Every time I awake alone, I miss you. I never...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 25: The Imperial's Advocate Abara walks through the thoroughfare and toward the bazaar of Dune. Her mother and father are busy working their respective jobs, so she has taken it upon herself to buy...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 24: Exposé "Don't hurt him!" Tsanavi pleads. Ra'kanishu grunts as he is forced violently to the ground by several armed villagers. Though he does not resist his neighbors, the word has already...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 22: Origins Several days have passed since Ra'kanishu revealed his secret to Jo'dehki, and the time has come for the Imperial and Tsanavi, his Suthay lover, to pledge themselves to each other....
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 21: The Hungry Cat Jo'dehki walks with a spring in his step, elated by the encounter with Celewen only hours earlier. The Cathay-Raht looks up at the sky to see that the sun is inching towards the...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 19: Compunction Jadhi sits up in her bedroll as Jo'dehki grumbles in his sleep, tossing and turning as he suffers a nightmare. Feeling quite badly for him, she rises from her place and creeps around...
The Seventh Realm 00
The Seventh Realm: Volume One By Mantrid Brizon Episode 00: Prologue The tall, red grasses shift and crunch beneath the pawlike feet of the young Ketlan woman as she walks through the forest and away from her village. Zakera, the...
Sterling
Sterling (06/13/2018) Someone once told me to 'be who you are', Even if that causes pain and leaves scars, But heeding their words I do not regret, I'd rather live true than tell lies I'd forget, But some of you do not live in the...
Heart Of A Gunslinger
Heart Of A Gunslinger (06/16/2018) What a glorious life, It has often been said, Living free as a bird, But the mountain of dead, Haunt me at night, So I rarely sleep, I toss and I turn, And some nights I weep, Stealing and...
In Time
In Time (05/23/2018) In Memory Of Shane. You used to walk beside me, But now you're ever still, You lived life to the fullest, But now you've had your fill, And sitting by the stone, The marker of your head, I'm crying here...
Farewell My Friend
Farewell My Friend (05/22/2018) In Memory of Shane. Farewell to you, friend, It has come to an end, But not due to hate, You were stolen by fate, The pain that I feel, Is all that is real, From the loss of this friend, My heart may...