*Best ranks: 4th in #Humannature, 5th in #gritty, 9th in #goodandevil, 17th in #steampunk, and 54th in #religion. Trigger warning: child abuse, domestic violence, death of children Lance is a hobgoblin chief who lost his wife and son when the humans began to invade. They came plowing through the forests with tanks, airships, and flamethrowers; destroying everything within their path to mercilessly kill the Faye. He led his people to the safety of Kepsels, where he has lived peacefully for the last twenty years; but now he is being sent back to Sonnet, to study an increase in magical storms occuring throughout the country. With his return to Sonnet came the adoption of two peculiar human children, will they be his path to overcoming the hatred that has dwelt within him for years? ******************************************************************************* In a brutal dystopian, fight-for-your-life, society, Blair is a young girl who feels the overshadowing presence of the men in her family; their titanic accomplishments constantly looming over her. Her grandfather who brought magic to the human race. Her father who is in line to be the next Milzani. Then her uncle who happens to be one of the most powerful mages in the world. At the age of twelve, she must undergo a trial known as Kimas, something that every child of Sonnet must endure; during this trial she witnesses the deaths of many other children. Is this truly the life she wants to follow? *A story inspired by a D&D adventure*

Just a regular job.... Get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. That's what hobby cat burglar and acclaimed jewelry maker Calendar Moonstone has aimed for. Instead she finds a dead body, meets a handsome Detective, has a nosey insurance investigator on her tracks and manages a complicated boyfriend situation. And must solve a century old jewelry mystery!

This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of "Oryx and Crake," nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.

A series of short stories I wrote with the goal of using exactly 120 words.