The Writer's Inn collection
4 stories
Children of The Underground by Ben_Soele
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Magic is a force of nature. And in the country of Mednagora, it can be studied, understood, and even harnessed into strange and wondrous technology. But every new advancement comes at a price: magic must be harvested as "artifacts" from The Zone: one of many hotspots of wild magic, where fireballs and lightning bolts surge forth from the very ground, where wildlife is mutated into grotesque, hideous monsters, where even the dead sometimes rise from their slumber. The Zone must be explored by vedmaks, pathfinders and daredevils that wander it in search of viable sources of artifacts. Two of these vedmaks, Misha Sorokina and her protege, Drazhek Sventoslavichi, embark on a quest into The Bald Mountains, in search of an underground cache of artifacts. But if such grave peril marks the surface of The Zone, then what trials await beneath The Earth?
Fragmented Echoes. Chapter 1: Undeground Hell by NoLazyShadow
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Humanity has fallen. The only survivors continued to exist deep underground for two decades... working in terrifying conditions, dying from a single mistake....But one day something went wrong... terribly wrong. Everyone is gone...place is abandoned...and why the hell do I have tentacles on my head?!
The Permutation by SaintCole
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The people of Lancet Falls, Idaho are changing, and it's all because of an otherworldly light that only a few can see, but the changes are affecting everyone. Animals are dying, people are disappearing, and what's with the men in jackets twenty years out of date showing up in the dead of night? A homeless drunk, a twelve year old from the city, a fat extortionist, a high school science teacher, and a reporter are the first to feel its effects. They're able to do things that no human should be able to do, but will it be enough? Will their newfound abilities be enough to save the town from a threat to its very reality? Cover by: @MoodyMooseMouse
A Waltz in the Sea by Alex_Yau
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7 years after his graduation from high school, the narrator -only known as "G"- looks back on a better time during his teens. Spending his days drinking and listening to smooth jazz with his coworker at the office; G reflects on time lost, and the friends that have gone with it. A Waltz in the Sea is a story of a young man's coming of age, and his essence of boredom and melancholy, shadowed by the existentialism that is growing up in the 21st century.