Shining Stars and Silver Bears
~ by Henry Hill Durnir jogged through the broad tunnel, cursing the weight of his armour. Behind him his squad of Silver Bears matched his pace, burdened as they were by their own armour…
Category: Original Short Stories
The Dark City
Christopher looked up at the sky. It was gray, as it was every day. Just like everything else. Rows of orderly houses lined each side of the road, and armed soldiers were marching down the…
The Hitch in Readying to Meet…
In a play on a well-known phrase, I'm calling the piece that follows a slice of the afterlife. In this fantastical short fiction, two famous historical figures meet up in the Afterlife to help…
Riding with the Hunt
The leaves above me rustle and whisper, glints of golden sunlight filtering through an opulent canopy of orange and gold. Now and then, a creature scurries by in the undergrowth and fallen leaves.…
Poppy and Pomegranate
A long time ago, when towns were small and cities a treasure, two families took part in perhaps one of the longest and bloodiest feuds ever to linger on the soil of Neritum, if…
Cloud Children
Human beings are not, as most of us believe, the only creatures in this world, or even that our world is the only world there is, for there are in reality…
The Duty of Stars: A Faerie Tale
There was once a young lady named Miss Aurora. She had raven hair and dusky skin and almond shaped onyx eyes with a happy secret winking out of them, and she taught the little…
Creation of Rinamathair
In the beginning there was Nought. Nought was the beginning and the end, the nothing and everything in one. It was the vastness of space between stars and atoms, but at that time, there were…
Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
“Are we there yet?” “Balthazar, you know the star hasn’t stopped moving yet,” grumbled an older man. “I know, I was asking the star that,” quipped Balthazar. His older comrade merely rolled…