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...

In Fillory, the air you breathe will either give you the power of gods, or choke the life out of you... An entry for the #BattleTheBeast contest promoting season two o...

It's Victoria Meadows' first day at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, while there, she meets and befriends Erin Coldwater, sister of Quentin, who catches Victoria...

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...

The Magician King is the sequel to The Magicians and picks up the story two years later. Quentin and his friends are the kings and queens of Fillory, but their life of l...

A take on one of the many failed attempts of Quentin and his friends at killing the Beast. This is a contest entry for Syfy's Battle The Beast Contest. Rights and image...

Their fate was to go back and relive it for another time.

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...

His enemy arrives unexpectedly as Quentin Coldwater searches for some clue that can help to defeat the Beast. Unprepared, the Beast whisks Quentin away, all the while hi...

Quentin spent an entire semester trying to destroy The Beast - a malevolent being who wants him dead. Now, he believes he has discovered the key to what may prove to be...

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...

Jane Chatwin is forced to kill the Beast. She tried to avoid that task, but failed. The only thing she manages to avoid is having to answer the gnawing, haunting questi...

Quentin and his friends, in a desperate attempt to learn a new type of magic, travel to New Orleans, to meet with an old friend of Dean Fogg's. Will the magic that she t...

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...

Julia responds to her rejection from Brakebills the only way she can.

this is one of the 39 times the world of the magicians has been reset, more specifically the 29th time, however a longer and fuller version of that. ...

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...

One decision can change everything... Quentin and friends are up against The Beast, again, and they know it. What the gang doesn't know is if they can survive another...