Tales From The The Forest is a collection of (mostly) fantasy and sci-fi short stories by Daniel and Mason - the authors of Prompt Nexus. Prepare to enter into a world where dragons and aliens live among us, love beats hate, and gravity can be turned off in this whacky mix of stories. The collection will be updated weekly June-August 2022. If you would like to read more of our stories, check out our blog promptnexus.wordpress.com, and our Instagram and TicToc.

Being single in 2022 wasn't for the faint of heart, as dating apps were more about finding a quick hookup than true love. Thirty-five year old Scarlet Anderson had given up on ever finding love, After her latest attempt to find love online goes wrong, she swears off love forever. That day during a nap she has an unexpected dream about her first love Trevor Ramirez. Her and Trevor met one fateful summer weekend while camping at the beach with their families 17 years prior. They dated on and off for two years until Scarlet broke his heart for the final time. She hadn't seen or heard from him since she walked out of their apartment all those years ago. Stunned by the dream Scarlett decides to take a trip down memory lane to that fateful weekend, before all of the heartbreak, to a time when love felt real. All before Trevor became a ghost that haunted Scarletts dreams.

When Audra Wilkes returns to her childhood home after ten years, she doesn't expect to wake up next to Jamie 'Jay' Halston. Five years younger than her and her little brother's best friend, well ex-best friend now. Fresh out of a messy relationship where she's dumped her fiance all before her thirtieth birthday. She's sworn off relationships altogether, vowing to focus on her emerging art career and mending her relationships with her family. All she has to do, is avoid Jamie Halston and that spark between them. Jay Halston has been pining after Audra since he was a teen, but things are complicated now they're older. Both carrying the weight of things that aren't theirs, they don't realise how much they mirror each other. They will reflect and force themselves to heal.

Empress Anra is one of the last people who remembers what her land was like before the war that claimed the lives of family, leaving her as the last member of the royal line. But as the child of the sun god, she knows that immortals like her and her family can never truly die, and soon they will all return to life and be by her side once again. She just has to make sure that they have a country to come back to. Complicating that seemingly simple goal is Yendai, a rain spirit from the south who has plans to remove his village from the greater empire and rule over it himself. As fascinated by him as she is frustrated, a poorly thought out decision of great consequence on his part ties them together for the foreseeable future. All she can hope is that he'll be of some help to her in these last fateful days of waning before the sun gods' return... Current arc: Light Bouncing off a Blade (Arc 2) 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑 Current chapter within arc: IV 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Updates Sat/Tues/Thurs