Fantasy
First Date
Many who know of me and the niche of study my journalistic integrity endures wildly brings me into the faces of many broken, twisted, unstable, intriguing, or plain freakish oddities in human form. I remain crude to remain social leveling with their off-centered biases, upsetting others in my field who can’t take the risky behavior that radiates poor outcomes with every question I pose. These Rock stars, eccentric Nascar drivers, or agoraphobic architects winning awards but call to say they’re in a DMT coma and can’t pick it up until the Titan’s orbit reverses the tides. These tasks I’ve taken to bring to light the strange, the unknowable, the fringes, ugly cursed stepchild have been to broaden the horizons of the dark and fanciful that exist inches from your daily lives. Not all of it pans out to anything more than some coo-coos with talent no one needs, according to readers of my last few stories, but the wait is over. It’s been three years since my time wrestling with the unfathomable antics of The Whiskey Hotel during their Witchy Bombardment European tour, and now I’ve finally got in contact with another bonified anomaly. She’s known as Detective Alice Scarlett.
By Willem Indigo4 years ago in Fiction
Dragon's Bane
Chapter One There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Not until the war, where they were bred and tortured into cruel manipulations of their former glory. Used to fight their masters’ battles, ripping apart our world with tooth and claw, leaving destruction in their wake. Leaving the world in ruins. The Tuluks won the war, but in the end, their dragons turned on them, too.
By Amanda Terrane4 years ago in Fiction
Dragon’s Lair
Chapter 1 There wasn’t always dragons in the Valley, or so our Elders had told our village. Throughout the years we heard various stories about how the dragons came to be, or who, if anyone, had control of them. Some say they were born of magic, and that Wizards or Sorcerors had control. Some felt that they had been in stasis for centuries and were hatched with the massive volcano eruptions that had happened a few generations back. Then there was a theory that scientists had been using altered animal genetics in experiments with the goal of controlling and using them as weapons. These stories were as many and varied as there were people to tell them.
By Karen Graf4 years ago in Fiction
We the Women
“I am so grateful, Pomona, that you allowed me to host this party in your orchard. I would have invited everyone to my sacred garden in the west, but the Hesperides are so finicky about letting others enter the garden, and the dragon Ladon is terrible company.”
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Fiction
[ the Mouth of the Abyss. ]
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley, and nobody is quite sure where they came from or when they began to settle in that yawning chasm that the locals called the Mouth of the Abyss. It wasn’t until the tragedy of William Teller this past autumn that the villagers knew these monsters existed. The boy was the first to hear the infernal creatures.
By daniel alexander4 years ago in Fiction
The Legend of Kat
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The town was terrified by the sightings and encounters with these creatures. I was informed that one of the innkeepers was killed by a fire dragon last week. I was not sure if this fire dragon was one of the shifters. The shifters were the dragons who were able to transform into humans. Some did not even know that they were shifters. These folks had to find out the hard way when they destroyed their loved ones. I found it outlandish that one could be born as a human, and then turn into a dragon later in life.
By Leona Valentine4 years ago in Fiction
Infernal Maw
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Something forced them here. What unimaginable force compelled these destructive beasts to flee their home is beyond my average intelligence. I am no scholar. I do not seek to study their origin, I strive to understand their nature, to survive their decimation, for dragons leave nothing in their wake save for ruin and death.
By M J Zeller4 years ago in Fiction
Crystal Lily
There weren't always dragons in the valley. Dragons were tales of other places. Exotic places. Places that everyone talked about but have never been. Of course, they always seemed to know someone's brothers cousin or some such person that's been there. People liked to talk and rumor is all dragons have been.
By Virginia Brooks4 years ago in Fiction
