Fiction
To Tell Or Not To Tell
I first wrote this novella in five parts for the Confessions community where it did not get a lot of reads. I was hoping it would do better in the Chapters community so I had it moved here. And now I am creating an index story so that all the parts can be accessed in one place.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Chapters
The Silver Serpent Society. Chapter Three.
I slam my fist on the briefing room table, rattling the stale coffee cups and pastry crumbs littering its surface. This ragged bunch of misfits in rumpled dress blues is my so-called task force - assembled to share intel and finally solve the Nyx Vesperra case that has cast its dark shadow over my career for almost two decades.
By Tanya Doolin3 years ago in Chapters
Violent - Chapter 1
The tops of tall buildings could be seen over the small roofs of the ones that surrounded the little alley Roger called home. Some of those buildings far off scraped the sky, down here in the alley and the street it led to, they were never given much thought. The people living down here preferred to stare up at the sky. Do they look at the clouds? Enjoy the blue or the warmth of the sun? Why look up at something so far gone you cannot hope to reach? Well, if that’s what people thought of these sky-gazers. Then, the same question can be asked about staring at those buildings in the city. Why look at the tall buildings? At the skyscrapers? When those here had as much chance of being accepted in those buildings as being up in the sky.
By Francisco Reyes3 years ago in Chapters
The Kiss Collector
The Kiss Collector Anna took the photography course as an elective at school, learning how to position the camera, hold it level - which honestly is harder than you think - and of course the development. The developer, the acidic stop bath, and fixer were what she mumbled at me after a few weeks into our sophomore year. I was not so obsessed with capturing an image, preferring to keep them in memory as my own. But the idea of flashing a light at a page and it leaving its mark only to be brought and flushed out later was such a fascinating idea to me. Who cares what the image contained. Look at what remained of the light long after it left.
By G. Douglas Kerr3 years ago in Chapters
The Marshes II
I plant my ankles firmly in the ground, close my eyes and with one slash of my sword in the empty air before me, the invisible wall disappears. I fall to the ground, but quickly rise again. I start running towards the poor woman again, hoping that I won't be intercepted by the Suru magic again. My heart is working heavy overtime, beating rapidly in my chest. My nose fills itself with the disgusting air around me. While breathable, my lungs will have a hard time getting enough oxygen.
By Reinier Prins3 years ago in Chapters
The Silver Serpent Society. Chapter Two.
The overpowering stench hits as I slip under the police tape and step into the squalid flat.Blood and gore splattered on peeling floral wallpaper like a Pollack painting. In the narrow kitchen the victim lays splayed unnaturally across cheap linoleum, arms and legs twisted in ways that turn my stomach. Sergeant Callahan stands grim-faced, filling me in on details while uniforms mill about uselessly.
By Tanya Doolin3 years ago in Chapters
Successor To Devil | PT. 4 |
Mason can’t hide that he's disappointed. Though Mason knows that for defeating weaker tier Blights or Faiths, you can only expect so much of a reward, he can’t help but want more from them for all of their destruction. Pocketing the scales, Mason looks around at the mess that the Blight created. Items like scales, teeth, and claws are easily tradable items for money, but most of the time they never really make up the cost of repair.
By VillainousTitan3 years ago in Chapters
