A brick manor squats amid rolling fields and meandering woods. In years gone by it housed a grand family and their social aspirations. Now it houses a family of another type, strangers bound by difference and the professional parents who seek to understand them. The occupant of room 23 is one such stranger. She knows […]
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#FridayFlash – The Necromancer General
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#FridayFlash – Last Words
Monte looked at the book lying on the table. No name was emblazoned on the spine or cover. “Seems like a pretty big book to be lugging around,” he said. He knocked back the last of his whiskey, winced, and put down the glass. “Important things are no burden.” The man across the table smiled, […]
#FridayFlash – Heartbreak
The Almighty Crack, as the sound came to be known in the days and weeks afterwards, was first heard by those waiting to petition the priestesses at Beseda’s Shrine. Being in the catacombs below the Underground City, they were closest to the epicenter, and reported the sound as being like that of the Great Cannon […]
#FridayFlash – Wolfkin
You may ask me my name, but I may not give it to you. I have no true name, not in the way that you understand them. Wolfkin transfer such things through sounds that do not translate to written language as you know it. Yet Men insist on granting us names, as they might name […]
#FridayFlash – Gallows
They’re all standing down there, pushing and shoving to get up close to the scaffold. Horrible lot, all elbows and knees as they try to get to the front. And they call me the animal! I’m no animal, just someone they don’t understand. They’re baying for blood, or at least a sight they’ll be able […]
