In the kingdom of Highfire, you can pack an entire house into one suitcase, grow a vegetable in a second, and have an intriguing conversation with a tree that is four times your size. If you are Aurelie Dranoir, the chosen heir to the Highfire throne, you might not find all these things as appealing as they sound.
World War II is underway. Germans drop their bombs on the streets of London. Emmeline is charged with being strong for her Daddy and to take care of her Maman and her little sister Madeline, as they make their way to Bannerscombe Manor, an old familial estate that was purchased after a mysterious price drop. The sun...
Ooh, where did that thing jump off to this time? Makes me wish I'd never invented them! Aha! Come look! This one stays on the pages long enough for you to catch a glimpse... *Just a little short story I wrote a couple years ago.*
TNT Horror Contest - Top 100 Finalist !!! Hope you enjoy this short story about a young boy who discovers bad things in the night. Here's an excerpt: "I was only nine when Momma let a devil move in. Not the Devil, but a devil... a demon. Not that there's much difference to a nine year old. Now don't get me wrong...
Luna's father once told her that all the living in life was done between breaths. That there was a pause, a moment of choice, a second where you could either hold your breath or take your next. After her dad disappeared, Luna assumed that he'd chosen to hold his breath and never take another. When Luna learns that he...
It was simply the genteel erosion of the skewed perspectives that I had been brought up with, a tremendous feat on the part of a young man I have come to love. It was a cruel twist of fate that life placed two people who loved and understood each other as well as we did on wrong sides of the border. Then again, if it...
Florida Forest Service duty officer Ray Lumley is in love with a white fringetree. Not an I-read-Walden-in-high-school love; a sweaty, sappy, I-want-to-rub-against-you-'til-I-get-splinters love. It's awkward. So, he's relieved to learn that he's really hot for Trivia, the dreadlocked, radical environmentalist nymph wh...
Love and revenge don't end with death. Exiled for her mother's sins, Suzume lives in a remote mountain shrine training to become a priestess. She would give anything to return to her old life at the emperor's palace. When she accidently awakens a sleeping dragon posing as the mountain god, she thinks he is the answer...
A sudden emergence of individuals with extraordinary abilities provides a convenient focus for the world's negativity. Blame, even if it is undeserved, is continually piled upon those uniquely gifted by nature. Some revere them, celebrate them as the dawning of a new age where the world bends to man's will, yet much o...
Dark things swarm around the city. Newspaper-boys are lured into houses, strange mansions whisper into musicians' ears, old men tell tales of vampires, drums boom in the Savannah, children worship false gods and priests begin to question the very foundations of the universe. And all this has something to do with a...