Short stories

  • The omnipresent General Neuro-synchronized Autonomous Technology, or GNAT continued to stream commercials and advertisements. On her current data plan, she could only afford to have two hours of music streaming time and one hour of silence. The rest of her day was filled with commercials to offset the low price. She typically saved the music…

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  • The huldra nomad crouched down in the grand oak tree at the edge of a small forest. He watched the procession of faerie creatures pass on the dirt road through drought-ridden fields of purple grain.

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  • Short Story: Any Reputation Will Do – Part 2 of 2

    Sage ran down an ally, but the Huldra father spotted him. The soldiers not confused by the random shouting happening all over the crowd at this point followed the Huldra father in his pursuit.

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  • Short Story: Any Reputation Will Do – Part 1 of 2 by Lara Lee

    “If the jewels in the backside of the earth’s crust could sparkle down on us any brighter, they would still pale to her inexhaustible beauty,” said Sage, the sixteen-year-old Huldra.

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  • Short Story: Terraphobia by Lara Lee

    “What’s wrong with my Zephyr, doctor?” asked the Dryad woman with anxiety. She pulled a handkerchief from her corseted gown and began to sob.

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  • “I’magivin’ up the busss… iness hero, Toble,” he slurred and then took a gulp of the intoxicating beverage. “You mean the hero business? You’ve said that before,” replied the white-haired Dryad man sitting across the wooden table from the rugged Huldra.

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  • Short Story: The Cerulean Caper

    Today is the day of my execution. I, Puck Alexander Capernaum III, will die by hanging when the sun sets this evening. My former student, Maldamien, Warlock dictator of the faerie world of Gryphendale, has planned a sweet revenge to celebrate his 150th birthday.

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  • Book Review: Dragons at Crumbling Castle by Terry Pratchett

    Dragons at Crumbling Castle is a collection of short stories written by a seventeen-year-old Terry Pratchett when he worked as a junior reporter at a local British newspaper in the nineteen sixties.

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