I’ve heard that burning to death is the most painful way to go. The way Harold screamed made me believe it.
I felt frozen, suddenly sick at what I’d done as the man dissolved into f...
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“He musta been with the ped...
2021-02-07 03:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, fuck you too, lady.”
Yes, that was the first thing I said to the goddess. I won’t defend it as an intelligent move, but what can I say? I’ve always been kind of a m...
2021-02-07 03:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Ugh, I wish the train would come. One of these smelly otaku is going to grope me, I just know it. You wouldn't believe what I'm seeing, Keiko! One of them is carrying a body pi...
2021-02-07 03:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post7 Years Later
The scrapyard was just the right blend of order and chaos that Emilio had come to enjoy due to his experiences in the Omnist orphanage. A combination ware...
2020-10-21 11:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostRaoul got back up, scrubbing a fist across his mouth. He didn’t try to run, and he still didn’t cry—just glared. So Emilio hit him again.
The smaller boy rocked back, stag...
2020-10-06 11:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostJoe wasn’t really surprised that he had to wait for those explanations. Jenny had cited the need to make preparations and the fact that there would be plenty of time for long disc...
2020-10-04 06:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostJoe ambled down the main street of Sarasio, aware that he was playing right into a chapbook cliché but having made his peace with it. He liked to amble, liked to take his time and ...
2020-09-30 08:20:43 +0000 UTC View Post“I see,” Shaeine whispered, not voicing the obvious rejoinder. It was, then, a question of who survived to tell the tale.
Her mother was going to be exceedin...
2020-09-25 08:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Madouri family being what they were, the Manor’s formal dining room was laid out with a giant display behind the seat at the head of the long table, positioned so that a huge House crest wou...
2020-09-23 03:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostTeal’s room was in a tower. Not one of the castle towers; it occupied a timber-framed space with a shorter but more interesting history, which had once housed the machinery of a windmill c...
2020-09-12 10:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: The next two side stories are set in the summer after the Class of 1182's freshman year, between Books 7 and 8. They were originally planned to be short story ebook releases, b...
2020-09-09 05:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Above all, in such times, we must have faith.”
The sanctuary of the Grand Cathedral was as packed as it had ever been, despite the Empire-wide state of emergency and warnings ...
2020-09-05 06:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostThey came streaking out of the depths of the Golden Sea, leaving trails of black smoke across the sky. The skeletal figures made no formation, in fact fanning outward as they traveled; when ...
2020-09-03 05:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Nurdrakhaan,” the Archpope repeated, staring pensively at the ancient data screen affixed to Rector’s apparatus by a framework of commercially available brass fastenings. Currently it...
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