Brakebills Stories

Eliot Waugh can't give up on the chance he had with the man he loves. No one really did get proof of concept like that. If Alice could come back from being a niffin, if...

A ~1,500 word short story for the #BattleTheBeast contest from The Magicians, on SyFy. It recounts one of the 39 unfortunate times Quentin Coldwater and his friends from...

Penelope Forager just wants to read her book in peace, but she has an unusual talent for luck--and luck isn't always good. This time, luck steers her into the middle of...

When Quentin goes to Dean Fogg for the 22nd time he has more than truth serum up his sleeve. New questions get asked and a more cynical take on events becomes clear. J...

It seems nowadays everyone is interested in their heritage. People go crazy just to have the bragging rights of being related to royalty, but is it all it's cranked up t...

"Here, take these," he said. "It'll be all you need," he said...well, he said a lot of things...those who speak cunning words with forked tongues usu...

Quentin and Julia have developed a plan to capture to the Beast in a lost artifact from Fillory, the legendary Pisces Stone. Eliza and Eliot offer their assistance, but...

(Not an entry into the #BattletheBeast contest). Penny, in his trips to other worlds, stumbles upon one that houses an opportunity to summon a god. One that is trapped a...

Battle the Beast

This is my interpretation of what happened in the 16th timeloop that Quentin and his friends are stuck in, and their subsequent battle with the Beast.

Quentin and his friends made the choice to learn the hardest magic that there is: Berserker Magic, but are they skilled enough to control it, or will they be consumed by...

In this #BattleTheBeast story, Quentin enters the magical land of Fillory through a rainbow in one of his earliest battles against The Beast. He is joined by his friends...

There is a terrible evil known as the beast that threatens magic in the universe. It is up to a group of students at Brakebills University to destroy this monster. Quen...

A creature has been relentlessly stalking Quentin and his friends, getting dangerously close to them, until it finally encircles them. Will this beast turn out to be the...

Todd, the idolizing, partying, fun and hardly seen character wasn't supposed to be at brakebills. He wasn't supposed to interact with Julia, Quintin, Margo,Eliot, penny...

Everyone is quick to presume that they know the story of the Chatwins, but do they? Do they truly know? What's done in the dark often comes to light, so let the illumina...

Quentin Coldwater, Julia Wicker, Josh Hoberman, and Kady Orloff-Diaz face off against the Beast in a somewhat different guise. Josh takes the lead this time with a plan...

Having just come from a voyage to secure the ancient Oni Masks, fortold to grant the wearer immeasurable god-like powers, Quentin and his friends should have an immense...

The Brakebills crew, led by Quentin, are making their way through Fillory to take on the Beast. As they are getting close to their destination they are stopped by child...

Everyone thinks I'm dead, but in reality I'm just as alive as they are. Well, except for the part where I'm a witch, and powerful one. The Beast took me and tried enslav...