Tag: Short Fiction
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Short Fiction: The King Is Dead (part two!)
(Image via Elfkin) This short fiction follows on the last one, because a friend of mine demanded I continue it. So here it is! (Link to Part One) —– Marcellus stared up at the ceiling. “Your father had been obsessed with death for quite some time. I can’t say why or how it started, except…
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Short Fiction: The King Is Dead
The room stank of tallow candles mixed with a pungent incense, no doubt meant to cover the smell of the candles. Karina wrinkled her nose and tried to breathe through her mouth as she entered. Her eyes swept across the hooded figures gathered there, pausing to glare at each one in turn. Why her father…
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Short Fiction: Whispers In The Woods
They’d all heard the stories about the Bramblewood. They were the stories told by their mothers to keep children from wandering too far in. Stories told by older siblings just to scare them. Stories told by friends as they dared each other to venture just a little farther from town. The Bramblewood was haunted, they…
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Short Fiction: Split Infinity
(Inspired by an epic oil painting by Wayne Haag)Security Officer Alice Bryce stood atop a small, sandy hill and surveyed the situation. Survivors were gathering between the two halves of the LFCS Infinity, huddling in the relatively cool shadow of the broken behemoth as the command staff tried to figure out what to do next. Not…