A couple of months after an epidemic swarms through and kills many animals in the stables, students in the Academy's Monstery band together to help an advanced student save a sick animal. Writing Excuses had a writing assignment that asked listeners to tell a story three times: once from the point of view of the protagonist, once from the main character's point of view, and once from the hero's point view. I thought it might be interesting to place this story in the Elemental Mage world.

A netrunner awakes to find themselves alone in an unfamiliar section of the net. Originally started for a contest last fall. Prompt: Write up to a thousand words about someone in a science fiction setting coping with the effects of being alone.

Earth Mage Minerva Watts, fresh home from the mage academy, struggles to settle into her new working gardens while earthquakes rock her hometown.

An apprentice thief learns just how clever her new guild is. Written for the Indistinguishable Challenge.

Out for a nightly parkour run, journalist Ken Takawa comes across a group of Tiger's Paw monks out at unusually late hour.

Netrunner Metis Kazitake employs an underground device to thwart security as she breaks into MicroTech to recover something she lost during a recent raid.

An archivist with the Golden Dragon Monastery fights machine and storage devices to preserve the very last story of the darkest moment in New Glory's history.

Technomage Dani is out running errands when she learns she might have the patience of a talent scout. This story is a repost of a story I wrote in Summer 2014 while learning to write action scenes. (This was also my first attempt at a book cover after I took a book cover design class.) Vote if you like it. Comment if you feel so inclined. Share if you know someone who'd like it. You guys know the drill. ;)