29 - Pirate Crab
I adjusted the black-leather strap around Sergeant Snips’ carapace, her body wiggling in excitement.
“It’s hard to get it in place with you moving about, Snips!”
She shifted eve...
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28 - Loving Intent
As we arrived back at the smithy, the three of us erupted.
I roared with laughter, and the two blacksmiths held each other by the shoulders, yelling incomprehensibly over the top of one anoth...
2023-07-18 10:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post27 - Spiky Sea Snippers
It was a beautiful day.
The sun was high overhead, radiating warmth that was perfectly contrasted by a stalwart breeze blowing ever northward. Small waves crashed against the rocks of the hea...
2023-07-18 10:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post26 - Animosity
Ruby raised one sculpted eyebrow at me.
“You’re, uh, sure about these measurements, Fischer?”
I smiled back.
“I am! Don’t worry—it’s not for me. It’s for a project...
2023-07-18 10:50:30 +0000 UTC View Post25 - Tutor
Sergeant Snips stretched her claws wide, gathering power in her joints.
She prepared to unleash a mighty clack of the claws on whomever was foolish enough to sneak up on her.
Who da...
2023-07-18 10:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post24 - Perfect Form
The sun warmed my skin as I walked back through the fields.
Fergus was procuring the silver for the ring, my belly was still full from a feast of fish, and the future was looking bright.
<... 2023-07-18 10:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post23 - Iridescent Stone
A grin made its way to my face as I left the store.
Marco’s reaction and increasing purchase price had been everything I needed to know.
They do know of pearls ...
2023-07-18 10:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post22 - Business
“Ow! You poxed son of a whore!”
Trent punched the metal leg he’d knocked his head on, then swore as he shook his hand.
“You useless pieces of junk are lucky I don’t h...
2023-07-18 10:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post21 - Evolution
Sergeant Snips scuttled in mad circles around me, an uncontrolled stream of excited bubbles following her.
I held the rod firmly with both hands as the fish on the other end of the line did i...
2023-07-18 10:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post66 - Holiday
With a loud pop, the lobster's vision was engulfed by white.
He opened and closed his trusty pincers as a sense of unbridled confusion grew.
Taking in the surrounding landscape...
2023-07-17 12:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post65 - Departure
The morning gave way to day as the sun rose ever higher in the sky. A soft breeze blew, the perfect counterpart for the day's heat. I felt neither the kiss of the sun's rays, nor the pleasant gouts...
2023-07-14 11:43:58 +0000 UTC View Post64 - Intentions
I blinked at Roger, and he scowled back at me.
"What are your intentions with my daughter?"
"Dad!" Maria yelled, running out of the house after him. "You are so 2023-07-12 10:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
63 - Proposition
On my way through the village, I picked up another croissant.
I was feeling rather peckish after a morning of smithing, minor as the work may have been.
Naturally, I grabbed a second co...
2023-07-10 11:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post62 - Luck
The forge radiated a calming heat, making me feel at ease.
My eyes widened as the change started
As the hooks transformed, a familiar feeling welled up from my core.
The hooks exp...
2023-07-07 21:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post61 - Imbalance
Sergeant Snips woke beneath the water.
She stretched out her limbs, shuddering as each muscle loosened.
Blinking her lone eye, she peered at her surroundings with blurred vision.
...
2023-07-05 11:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post60 - Something Colossal
With the sun setting at our backs, Theo and I watched the hook and sinker as they flew over the languidly shifting ocean.
It flew further than the jetty, hitting the ocean half-again the dock...
2023-07-03 11:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post59 - Best Friend
Theo's entire face lit up.
"I love fishing!"
"I—wait, you what?"
"I love fishing!" he repeated, half yell, half whisper. "I've never come across another angler...
2023-07-03 11:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post58 - Divine Intervention
My eyes went wide as the reel and rod transformed.
A rushing of power came from my core, along with an almost unnoticeable nudge from the System, no doubt trying to spew incoherent nonsense a...
2023-06-30 20:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post57 - She's Awake
"No..."
Unbidden, my hand shot out, discarding my almost-empty cup and catching the full cup of coffee with a single lightning-fast movement.
"No..." Maria said again,...
2023-06-28 13:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post56 - Interrogation
Theo stared the man down, waiting for a response.
George cleared his throat.
"Well, you see, the thing is..."
George gesticulated, searching for the correct word or phrase; Theo w...
2023-06-26 12:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post55 - Crema
George closed his door behind him, letting out a sigh of relief.
Geraldine rushed him from behind, wrapping her meaty arms around him.
"That was wonderful, George—absolutely perfect!"...
2023-06-26 05:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post54 - Eccentric
The sun was midway through the morning sky, its warm touch and a cool breeze highlighted by the silence that spread over the crowd.
George cleared his throat once more, closing his eyes to co...
2023-06-24 00:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post53 - Fielday
Corporal Claws more felt than saw the changes to her body.
Her entire being expanded, shifting her perspective as it did so. Her claws grew, teeth sharpened, and muscles bulged, filling her w...
2023-06-21 12:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post52 - Transformation
In a room long since abandoned by the god that created it, something miraculous occurred.
A construct whirred to life.
For centuries, this creation had lain dormant, lacking both the en...
2023-06-19 12:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post51 - Willpower
The air thickened around me.
The chill morning breeze stilled, and the warmth from the sun seemed to vanish as if a cloud obscured it. I glanced up, seeing not a single cloud in the sky, then...
2023-06-16 10:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post50 - Lobster
I'd seen Snips excited before, especially when waking me up, but the fervor with which she woke me this morning was at a previously unseen level.
She and Claws both led me toward the saltwate...
2023-06-14 13:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post49 - Medicine
"W-what?" I asked, rather dumbly, by my estimation.
Corporal Claws and Sergeant Snips both turned to me, their eyes going wide.
They had excavated the pond further. It was twice again a...
2023-06-12 13:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post48 - Decoration
Sergeant Snips, first chosen of master Fischer, sentinel of these lands, and de facto leader of the local Rock Crab population, collected some rather lovely looking rocks.
She'd picked them f...
2023-06-12 12:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post47 - Confrontation
"No, Fischer—you lost!" Barry called back, exulting in the relief of knowing the fields wouldn't wash away.
He bent down, picked up the single stalk of sugarcane that had been lifted from t...
2023-06-12 12:08:26 +0000 UTC View Post46 - Flood
I woke from a wonderful dream, one in which I was surrounded by a veritable sanctuary of animals.
My legs were unexplainably warm, and I opened sleepy eyes, glancing down toward them.
C...
2023-06-12 11:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post