What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies. ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ Abby Goldsmith is the author of an epic dark sci-fi fantasy series published by Podium and narrated by George Newbern. The Torth series begins with Majority, available on Kindle, Audible, and carried by Ingram. https://abbygoldsmith.com/majority

"RUN!! GET OUT OF HERE!! THEY'LL KILL US!! RUN... EMBER!!!" My mind was screaming at me. I ran as fast as I could. Blood oozing down my face like sweat, from a gash in my forehead. Picking up speed and heading down hill, I knew it was close. It's fiery breathes would lick at my neck, scorching it. I fought the screams, not wanting to allow it to escape. I didn't want it to be satisfied, not yet, not now.... Trees started falling around them as the flames grew higher, swallowing the darkness into a raging inferno. Something reached up from the ground, pulling me into a hole. "NOOOO! KICK IT! KICK IT EMBER! NOW!! BEFORE WE DIE!" I kicked, hitting something in the face. "Hey! Stop it I'm trying to help." A strangers voiced soothed me. "What?!" I screamed back. "Wake up!" The stranger's hand slapped me.

This story is about a 18 year old girl named Crystal she has black hair and bright blue eyes she is half angel half human her mom died while she was being born her bad died in the last war her mom was human her dad was a dark angel. Will she win the war or set things right Crystal also has powers she has yet to discover.