A small smile spreads on my lips. “Stop trying to make me feel good.”
“Nah, I would never.” Iggy takes the ice cream and my spoon. He eats a few mouthfuls before waving the spoon at me. “Now, what’s your long story?” He asks. “Give me a reason why I shouldn’t destroy ever apple tree in a one hundred mile radius should I hear that song again.”
I chuckle and shake ...
2019-11-27 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I wake from a dream where I am kneeling in a river. The cold water rushes around my legs and hands, making my toes and fingers go numb. I’m not sure why I am not moving, and only watching the water rush beneath me. I don’t know where the water is coming from or where it is going. I only see the rip...
2019-11-27 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“None of these people actually believe in magic, Mama,” Avery grumbles as I help him get set up. He’s quite pretty, even with his zombie like expression, so I dress him up and add some makeup, try to liven up that pale skin with my best rouge. The androgyny angle makes him more credible to the patrons. If you came in to get your fortune done by some skinny white boy, you’d probably laug...
2019-11-26 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been so hot the last few days, and the air has been thick and murky with humidity. I’ve not done much, not that you can do much when the weather is so god awful like this. I pray for rain, or something, just to knock the heat off a little. Instead, the air conditioner breaks.
It’s been a long time coming, the unit is probably as old as the house itself. It’s done it’s duty,...
2019-11-26 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was little I was scared of the dark. No matter how my family tried to comfort me, I was terrified by what was in it. My father was a strong warrior, bit even knowing he was there could never quell my fear. I felt like I was the only one who knew there was something out there, something that coul...
2019-11-26 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Then where have you been staying?” I ask him.
Avery shrugs. “Wherever. There’ an old cabin off that dirt road,” he murmurs, nodding his head in the direction. “But the spirit there is loud and abusive, so I slept outside last night.”
“The old Cutler Cabi, I know it,” I sigh with a nod. “You still want that meal?”
Avery turns back to me. “Why are you of...
2019-11-25 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When my girlfriend abandoned me and our baby, my sister Lace invited me to come live with her. Back in the day, when she first had Ari, they lived with me, so it seemed fitting. Hearthway Hollow was a nice town, and the kind of place where someone could get away or just escape entirely. Lace had been t...
2019-11-25 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I found humanity to be amazing, they were so helpless yet so determined. They had no idea how fruitless and meaningless their lives really were. They simply wanted to live. That was it. I wanted to help them, to do something for them.” He blinked a few times. “You really don’t find this strange?”
“Why would I?” I chuckled. I wanted to scream at him, shake him, tell him to g...
2019-11-22 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hephaestus Academy has been an extremely busy place lately. For one, new students are coming in daily. It’s gotten to the point where Hephaestus is working so hard to find teachers and investors that he was injured last week during a demonstration. Because of that, Mina has forced him to r...
2019-11-22 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAvery leads the way upstairs, opening the door and taking us into the flat. It’s all one room with several pillars. One side is the kitchen, the other side is the bathroom and beds, it’s not much at all, not a place one would entertain.
Hans takes a seat at the table while Avery starts to go into the kitchen. I stop him and guide him back to the table.
“I can cook,” Avery mu...
2019-11-21 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Once upon a time you were a professor of astronomy, and you were happy with your work. You taught classes and ran an observatory, having worked hard to get to the position you held. Then, one day, a handsome prince from a distant planet became your student. He was tall, beautiful, and arroga...
2019-11-21 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“It wouldn’t have mattered if they had done it, but you?” Avery yells at me.
I go to stand up but a cold sensation runs up through my body. I don’t know what it is, but I am overwhelmed by dread and fear. I look up at Avery, my jaw dropped and eyes unnerved. His expression shifts ever so slightly and then the world lights on fire.
The jeep is toppled, tossed like a sheet in ...
2019-11-20 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m staring hard at the notepad in my lap. Several columns fill the white space, each line marked with ink - a name that could be the one for the baby. I sigh and look up, gazing at the sky as thick clouds go rolling by. It’s supposed to rain soon. The stormy season is coming in, and for...
2019-11-20 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I finally got in the Misinformed stickers of Sophie, Persephone, and Silas and the size difference is real.
Artwork by ArtCelestial aka Celestial Kiri
2019-11-20 03:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostI sniffle slightly, the heaviness that the more used to hold on me was slipping away. It was still there but it felt like sun light. I raised my eyes, lifting my forehead from the floor. Ahead of me I saw a little lamb drenched in a radiant light I had never seen before. I lifted myself further from the ground as the little lamb came towards me. It nuzzled into my palm then licked the tears tha...
2019-11-19 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen my girlfriend abandoned our baby and me, my sister Lace invited me to come live with her. Back in the day, when she first had Ari, they had lived with me, so it seemed fitting. Hearthway Hollow was a nice enough town, the kind of place where someone could get away or just escape entirely. Lace had been talking about nonstop, telling me how much she loved the place and how many good friends...
2019-11-19 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m so very excited that my sister is coming to visit me for a while. I’ve been lonesome as of late, since Manette has been away doing business for the kingdom, and I have been working alongside Mythri to get the university up and running. Not only that, but ever since Manette and I got ...
2019-11-19 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“This place is full of wolves,” Faryan says with a smirk. “Strolling around with a rabbit seems like tempting fate,” he winks to show he’s teasing.
“She hasn’t been sleeping,” I answer. I rub Bunny’s back as she curls against my shoulder. “Ever since we moved here, she’s been fighting any sort of sleep.”
Faryan nods his head. “There’s this shop down...
2019-11-18 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Gryndren returns to the cave, the heavy load he left with gone and placed on my boat just outside. He sinks into the water upon landing, and the current laps against the beach where I am sitting. For a moment, I feel excited at his return, but I manage to keep those feelings down where they ...
2019-11-18 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlzun kisses you again, this time his hand slips under your shirt. “If I do get hurt, will you comfort me?”
You shudder as his his soft fingertips brush against your skin, he then runs them along the edge of your bra, gently pulling down the fabric until he finds your nipple.
“Wait,” you gasp, grabbing hold of his shoulders. “Not here!”
“Yes here,” Alzun moans ...
2019-11-15 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Three days. That is all I have to try and make some grand escape before three days of being a dragon’s lover. Somehow, I have to escape from a cave where the only exit is a hole near the top of the ceiling. That, or a crack somewhere above the bedchamber. I feel like either way I go I am s...
2019-11-15 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSpite’s tongue slithers out and he hisses at me. At the moment, he’s completely covering Max’s body.
“Spites are diplomats,” Luke says suddenly. “Not exactly fighters.”
“I’ll fight you,” Spite jabs a finger at him.
“Wait, he’s a diplomat?” I scoff.
Luke sighs. “Once was. Each symbiote has a title relating to their function. Beast is a class th...
2019-11-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
They say there aren’t many dragons left in the Ruby Empire, and that that is a sign of the end times. This is not because of the dragons that don’t exist, but because the ones that do are old and powerful. It isn’t just dragons that mercenaries like myself hunt these days. The whole Em...
2019-11-14 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat should be the theme of December mail outs? Remember these will be for $10 and up patrons.
2019-11-14 16:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostI sit on the porch to wait for and the storm. I keep messing up on my stitches, as I keep looking at the horizon and checking for Manette. The sky is growing darker and there is still no sign of her. I finally set my knitting down, knowing I am not going to accomplish anything with it until Manette returns.
The first drops of rain hit the porch as the rumble of thunder threatens above. Th...
2019-11-13 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There is an old hunting path behind my sister’s house. It’s strange compared to the rest of her yard, which is overflowing with plants and herbs. This worn-out old path cuts through them like the Red Sea parting. It is out of place, strange, yet almost beckoning. I found myself staring a...
2019-11-13 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“You work up there with Mythri right?” Evelyn says. “She has twins. Your womb may have caught ideas from that.”
I think about the young princes who are both in their late teens. Himank is gorgeous but a handful, and Dhaval is such a lovely young man but timid. “It wouldn’t be so bad,” I huff.
“Speaking of twins,” Evelyn chuckles. “I have a job coming up soo...
2019-11-12 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tea Country isn’t so much a country as it is one of the wealthiest places in all of Miror. It houses some of the most elite people in all of the kingdom - the wealthiest who are not nobles, and the nobles who have too much money to live anywhere else. It is a place of gluttony and avarice,...
2019-11-12 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI shove him off. “Get over it.”
“How can I when it brought me so much joy?” He whispers right into my ear. “Finding you on the throne like the queen you are,” he growls. “Your moans were enough for me, but then your legs were splayed and I could smell your honey all around.”
I stand up off the beach, escaping his dark whispers. “It really has been a while for you. ...
2019-11-11 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I was abandoned in the woods as a baby - left alone, wrapped in soiled blankets. My father, the man who found me, was a disgraced white knight. He heard me crying, so he followed his natural call to come save the damsel in distress. He used to tell me that I was a miracle and that I was what...
2019-11-11 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post