Illeandir Stories

"I'm not afraid of dying. But living in a world without you... that terrifies me." - Ranata Suzuki

"Disclosure: (n.) when they finally tell us everything and nothing changes." - Sol Luckman

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ..." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Book One Sori'a veil Areae Tarus marks the beginning days of spring and new abundance for the citizens of Glarun. For Freya, this year's celebrations mean anticipating a new life with Philip Bearing but the arrival of the king's high priest throws her future and home into disarray. With her father captured by the high priest and she exposed as one of the Nilmf, Freya must flee her home with the aid of a stranger whose alliance is questionable at best. Chased by nightmarish creatures into the Darkling Wood and the Wastelands beyond, Freya can rely only on her strength to put one foot in front of the other to find her father and return home.

"There is no love as pure, unconditional, and strong as a mother's love." - Christiane Northrup Contest Entry The Distant Lands Awards: A LOTR Contest Round One: Harad @GerithorDunedain @Silvan_Elleth

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." - F. Scott Fitzgerald A lonely elf contemplates the stars, mountains, and the darkness his brethren have fallen into. Arda Marred Contest Entry

"Immortality - - a fate worse than death." - Edgar A. Schoaff

Goblins, gnomes with a vengence, giant snake ladies, killer horses, elves with dark secrets, bullet-proof knights, and Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies lurk between and among the stories. Brave are the adventurers who conquer these pages, for what lurks here is not for the unimaginative.