Tag: fantasy
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A Question of Manners – Fantasy One-Shot
As Eteri the slavegirl gets ready for another day, her owner keeps teasing her with a chance of freedom. This short is set in the Cage of Glass universe. You might want to read this one-shot first. Eteri’s hands did not tremble as much anymore as she took out the precious linen vest and began…
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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…
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The Rite – Post-Apocalyptic Short Story 1/2
In a world darkened by the Faepocalypse, a young woman has to betray her kin for one final act of love. What others deemed madness, Sara deemed a necessity. She had spent the last three days struggling with the idea, rationality and honed survival instinct gnawing at the need she felt. What would the point…
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Patina – Chapter 148
Sadja was being eaten alive. She screamed inwardly as laughing mouths bit into her psyche, ripping it off in a thousand direction at once, each bit a flash of pain. The roar of the mind attack went beyond anything she had experienced so far: even Verna’s power was gentler and smoother, this was just onslaught.…
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The Forever Ache – Horror Short Story
A young man goes hiking in Southern Europe. He sees something he feels he wasn’t supposed to, and the experience stings. I remember reading all those scary hiking stories on the internet, and never giving them any credit. Besides, we were going to hike in Sicily, and that’s the farthest place away from anything supernatural…
A. Montresor 