This is an ongoing companion piece to be read after completing the Snakesblood Saga. Because it takes place during the final chapter of the last book, it will be very full of spoilers. It’s also unedited first draft fluff… just for fun! Read at your own risk, and expect installments … Read the rest...
Category: Short Stories
This month at my local writer’s group meeting, our writing exercise involved story cubes! It was my first time getting to attend in a few months due to health, and I was super excited to be able to attend. We always do some sort of writing exercise, and this time,… Read the rest...
“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...
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...