The Pale Ones
“I have heard of you, Seer-of-the-Ways,” I say. The warriors of the tribe stand behind me, and I feel their tension. It is as hard and bright as the wasteland…
JayDee
50 stories written on Ficly, 2011, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
The Designer.
“There are some who say the House was built upon grounds given to us by the Faerie, using the wood of trees that never graced the mortal world. This is true…
Mottwoo: A brief lecture on Reality
“Ok, so it’s... and I’m going to dumb it down for you first years, alright?... but if you can imagine that life, the universe, and everything... the entirety…
The Equation
He/She/It appeared as many things. Sometimes as geometric shapes and gently flowing gradients. Colours and light. An endless stream of codes and symbols…
The Knight
The Arena is an oft visited part of the House, but the lone warrior stepping into the ring is especially fond of it. His jousting tourney has just finished…
Bigger.
It needs to be bigger. We have characters from every country, background and personality, filmed on site all around the world. But it’s still not enough. The…
The Impossible Movie 2: The Sequel
Hire new actors. Now do the same damn thing all over again.
Ivy: The Magister's Secret
Dmitri didn’t move a muscle. He kind of reminded me of a terrified rabbit. It was quite adorable, really. “I’m sorry, boys,” the man in the chair said, looking…
Dogma
“Do not push the button. If you push the button, YOU WILL DIE.” I walked up to the pedastal, the angry metallic voice booming over the loudspeakers above me. I…
Dmitri: The Acropolis
“Wow! This place is amazing!” Ivy said, looking up at the magnificent architechture silhoetted against the night sky. The pale, grey spires towered above us…
Hearts and Roses and Red, Red blood
Angelica’s skin molded and rippled like potter’s clay, her fingernails growing into long curved talons, her now snake-like arms multiplying like the heads of a…
The Rippers
“Who sent you?” Rose said, her voice cold and hard. He blubbered like a child; blood, snot and tears mixing on his face. “’m sorry!” he said, barely…
Dmitri: The Academic
“This certainly is an... interesting establishment,” I said, sipping something that tasted like an alchemy experiment. I wondered what I was doing here. “I’m…
Rowan
“Is something wrong?” Mother Rose asked, her hand on the smiling young man’s toned shoulder. “Rowan is one of our best. Is he not to your taste?” “It’s just…
In the Garden: The Tree of Knowledge
Mother Rose had a gift. She knew how to give people what they needed, not what they wanted. So I had gone to her. You must first understand that I have…
The Gardener
But Grigori has planned for this. As the maniac is about to land the final deathstroke, Grigori rolls to the side, and in one fluid, elegant movement, he…
The Saviour
But the blow never lands. There is the scream of metal striking metal. You open your eyes, and like a miracle, a steel spade holds the machete from biting into…
The Madman
You run from your pursuer, looking desperately for the way out. But the conservatory confounds you, and the path forks and branches again and again until you…
The Conservatory
You glance through the bars. You prepare yourself for something grand enough to be worthy of The House, and expect a lavishly, glass-wrapped eden that would…
The Guardroom
You see many men, all of them sitting on chairs or playing cards at tables. Each of them is armed. They make no attempt at concealing their weapons; if…