“Think of it as a game.”
Tahl’s attention snapped to the instructor at the head of the classroom. The woman drew a line across the wide slate beneath a bold headline: Magic as a Detection Force filled the board from end to end.
Her hand hovered closer to eye level… Read the rest...
Category: Short Stories
After a while, the boxes all began to look the same. Everything glittered in the sunlight, including the glass that kept the stones out of reach. Most of the gems that lay within the boxes were inferior; Medreal knew that simply because they were visible. Anything of real value would… Read the rest...
“Here we are,” Ennil announced as he swept open the door. “Home.”
Vivenne picked up her skirts and climbed the stairs to peer inside. The sunlight didn’t travel far from the doorway. Beyond, the front room was dark. She lowered her skirts, but hesitated too long at the threshold. Ennil… Read the rest...
There was something unusual about the king.
Tilda knew relatively little of men. She was a good girl who heeded her father and paid her respects to Brant each Somnday, and her few stolen kisses with Addan, the particularly handsome stable boy, precluded any great knowledge of the opposite sex.… Read the rest...
Firal had never seen snow; not the natural sort, anyway. All mages had to practice creating ice at some point, so clumps of snowflakes and pellets of ice were not so foreign as to be mysterious, but the idea of it falling from the sky was still strange.
Other islands… Read the rest...
“You should have come, it was a lot of fun.” Vahn regretted the words almost as soon as they were out of his mouth.
His friend’s expression didn’t change, though. He just stayed with his back against the floor, twisting and turning the bottle he held overhead, watching the tiny… Read the rest...
The winter air bit deep, no matter how many layers he wore. Everyone said he’d grow used to it, but as he adjusted the thick scarf wrapped so it just brushed his chin, Rune thought again of how he didn’t want to.
Snow was as marvelous as ever; he couldn’t… Read the rest...