Tag: dark fantasy
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Nata di Cera: Una Fiaba Nera – 0
Talia, bambina dal viso sfregiato, viene adottata dal mercante Arodias. Durante gli anni che seguono, Talia cresce nell’isola di Trinacria, in mezzo alle macerie dell’ultima guerra contro gli Invisi, i fatati della Silvagrama. E piano piano, Talia inizia a dubitare quel che le è stato detto sul suo viso e sulla guerra contro la foresta……
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Patina – Chapter 156
Cloria knew she had come too late – but maybe for the the first time in her life, or the last few years at the very least, she was grateful someone else was having all the luck in the world. She cried out from Bernardo’s embrace, a long and wailing sound, her throat parched from…
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Patina – Chapter 155
I did not know where I was, she explained. Her voice was just as melodious as the last time he had heard I and his heart throbbed at holding her once again, so close. She did not smell like anything. Perhaps just a bit like old cinders, the kind you forget in the dark corners.…
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Patina – Chapter 154
He proceeded on the uneven ground – his feet stumbled on holes and cracks. There was a slight upwards slope that lead to a bald peak where something indistinct fluttered, moving back and forth. He knew that was his destination. The crimson light of the thunderbolts going off in the ceiling-sky, showing off the inside…
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Patina – Chapter 153
They helped Arguta standing up. The roar of the engines and the lights coming back up had taken her by surprise – as they did everyone else. One moment, they’d been sharing tired gazes, listening to the oppressing silence between the dead walls as the siege continued, knowing that they would soon lose any chance…
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Patina – Chapter 152
One by one, the lights sparked up in blooms of brightness. Starting from the mouth of the Generator and the Temple, they spread in waves upon waves. The survivors and the wounded, the stunned and the fighters, they all fell silent as the dead while they watched the strings of lamp light up. Past the…
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Patina – Chapter 151
Elissa believed that there would be light. Wasn’t it what she was trying to do? Create a new light? Instead she was walking in the darkness. Not in the void of her mind. She was outside. The Threads were not with her. For the first time since she had memory, her mind felt… alone. It…
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Patina – Chapter 150
Sadja! Who was calling her? She was so tired. The assault was relentless… her arms ached and her heart begged her to just lay down and sleep. Sadja! Came the voice again. She blinked, annoyed at the calls. Why couldn’t they just leave her alone? She had done nothing bad to anyone. She did not…
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Patina – Chapter 149
To him, the nightmare just never really ended. It began with Lenora’s takeover and the first time the town had been overrun – and back then the Generator had come back more or less on its own. They had had a chance to fight. Now what chance did he have? “Leave her alone,” he wheezed,…
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The Rite – Post-Apocalyptic Short Story 2/2
In a world darkened by the Faepocalypse, a young woman has to betray her kin for one final act of love. Sara held her rifle close to her chest – at any moment something could jump put of the shadows. The blade of her flashlight cast the straight shapes of the trees out of the…
A. Montresor 