Conversations With Dad
“The world is bigger than you and I,” Martin put his arm around the young man. The teenager was shrugging off the moment his father was trying to create. The…
Gone Baby, Gone
The mother, holding back tears, frantically pulls at blankets and sheets. The effort is in vain but required by maternal instinct, as is the glance around the…
Stuck on the mountain
The huge rock had landed on my arms, crushing both and -more importantly- my hands. I was pinned there in the deep of the mountains, and the sun was about to…
Aspirations Among the Low Places
The toad found a hole, a combination of sunken earth and the gaping maw of a half buried log. All in all, the place was lowly indeed but a step up from…
A Pile of Ashes
When the wings cleared, nothing was left of Madame Papillon but a pile of ashes. A couple of butterflies rested for only a moment on the ashes before clearing…
Burst
“Troubled souls find dehr way into my eye.” “Troubled? My daddy is in there, isn’t he?... My father was a happy man. He was in love with my mother. And she was…
Magic is What You Want It to Be
“You’sa special one, didn’t ya know, child,” her slithering s-less words dragged together as she sat in her quilted rocking chair, rotting. Sarah held the…
Chapter 2 Disapproval part 2
Her twin brother laughed so hard he nearly fell out of his chair. He made fun of her only to be scolded quite reproachfully to a snickering silence, by the…
Fight or Flight
With a blast of white light the door burst open, scattering shards of wood onto tables and hapless patrons. Astonished silence filled the common room, into…
Master of Equus: Chapter 1- The Realm cont.
Many of the Feralings came to live and work in the neighboring towns and villages where they could after the war. Many found a home in the castle serving the…
The Mistakes in Desperation
Anger was all he knew. It was pumping through his veins, and was almost tangible on his tongue. He was also happy with the anger. Happy for the anger. In a…
houdini
He groped for the wire. When he was six, he’d tried to make a pencil disappear with a rubber band. It panicked and flew into his thumb instead. It took a week…
Heliola Awakens
Heavy lidded eyes opened slowly, revealing a shadowy encampment. A dark fire flickered nearby. She was too young to understand yet, but Heliola felt calm as…
Heartstone
It is a wondrous thing to hear your child’s heart beat for the first time. All those long hours of laboring and toiling over a workbench, all those days and…
The conjurer's wife
The conjurer had loved his wife, once. Deep down, some trace remained - the memory of something real and raw, now healed over, like the scar tissue around his…
Everlake
Stars turned overhead. I had been spending the weekend at my Grandfather’s cabin in Nova Scotia, and he had agreed that my brothers and I could spend the night…
The Ghost and The Prophecy
The snow was thick on the ground when her child was born. She didn’t hold on long enough to learn the child’s name and so passed on into the spirit world never…
(Day 7) Surprise! (Love, Dad.)
“Let’s take a walk, shall we?” The voice came from below the table, and seeing as I was the only person in the backyard at the time it spoke, me jumping and…
Called
Allandra stared at the stone that lay on the ground before her. It was flat, round, and perfectly smooth -- and it hadn’t been there a moment ago. Now, it…
Confidence Building
“Your magic wore off. Make me bigger and stronger!” Nash snarled, baring his teeth. Mikaela put her hands on the ogre’s arm. “Be calm, friend ogre.” “Everyone…