Illusions
It's all just an illusion. everything suddenly melts away. the sun plummets into the ocean, now just a glowing orb. the skies blacken and the clouds change texture, form a dry, cracking ceiling above me.
Packing and Truth (Otherwise Untitled)
~ linda turned in place to face the cassette player away from greg, who took a couple glances to realize the jackalope had momentarily dropped all of his illusions. "old enough to know that relationships are a gamble."
Antlers Collide (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The polite fundraiser was a slog of patience and observation to Detective Clip, dressed in her finest civilian attire. She nodded politely to a Dean, shook hands with a princess, and nodded agreeably to the wild tales of some CEO. All the while she...
Motel Pool (Otherwise Untitled)
The jackalope shrugged indecisively, "my illusions don't hold up well to standing water..."
Hunting Death- The Draaknei Sunset
"the church is the center of town, the most likely source of that illusion and it only makes sense for that to also be their base of operations." "over here," i hear from nearby and see a human trying to get our attention.
Alantris, Chapter 4
Howl stood there stricken as he fought a wave of nausea and dizziness. The familiar leopard's gold fur was barely recognizable under the smears of blood, but the band that he always wore around his neck made Howl knew it was him. A sheaf of parchment...
Detention (Otherwise Untitled)
#73 of short stories a phoenix finds herself in a cell with a bored jackalope who avails himself of illusions to pass the time. ~ the phoenix could see two things in her cell that were quite out of the ordinary.
Shattered Illusions
The mighty predator stalks through the tangle of overgrowth. Knee deep in the tendrils of the cloth like floor, its victim lay inert defenseless and innocent its single thread like tail remained motionless and unaware. The mighty beast attacked...
Consortium 1-4: The Gathering Storm- Chapter 5
I will be keeping your familiar under an illusion. not harmful in any way, mind. the entire illusion while she is in my workshop will be that anything that is fragile will seem to her as something very sharp and dangerous to touch.
Consortium 1-2: Chekov's Gun Chapter 2
However, what keeps this from being a perfect illusion?" "no blood?" one of the audience shouts out. "no, this doll will still bleed, though it is highly toxic so i'd highly advise against trying to taste it. anyone else?"
Scented Fantasies
If there was ever something you probably didn't expect of a skunk's apartment, it was how nice everything smelled. Oh, certainly, the young cloud architect's office space smelled like a library full of your favorite books some days, or a jug of...
Joli
He made himself invisible using illusions and snuck away. the old man looked at me accusingly and i shruged. "i forfeit," i said, raising my hands up, like i had just committed a crime.