Short Stories
A soldier and a musician in a nation bent on fighting gods
1) Live for the present, not for the past, 2) Written words are never always the truth, 3) Each other is all that we've got, 4) Distrust the stars, 5) Kill all the Gods (...)
A mood piece of hopes and endings.
It was a bit like having your life flashing before your eyes, although why I was reminiscing then, I couldn’t have known. I was holding the door down, a human (...)
A cyberpunk story about two brothers.
There was no moon in the sky, no stars. He could vaguely make out the shape of buildings around him, had the sense that he was in the middle of a street in a middle of the city. (...)
A retelling of a classic story.
He's dead. His entire family's dead. And you think I did it. Is that right? (...)
Lamentations of someone particularly old.
Miriam was not particularly known for her kindness. She scowled often, she glared at all the kids who came by her house. She lived alone in a small house surrounded (...)
A cheesy fun fantasy action romance.
The inhabitants of the room varied from dwarves and winged imps, shapeless masses and almost-people with fangs and horns and furs, a crab-like and a spider creature huddled on a table playing dice. (...)
A love story of a sort.
He was the most charming person she had ever met. His dark eyes shone with the alacrity of stars. When he smiled, it was a supernova shattering her world and (...)
A surreal, asynchronic story, based on a song.
He introduced himself as Emerald, a visitor to the Netherworld. When they shook hand Paris could already see what he was after, what he had done that warrant the trip, (...)
A fight against writer’s block
"Oh, bloody hell," she said, as she stared at the paper that keep insisted on being being empty. She had his pen out, the same pen her uncle gave her, five years ago, before he was shot a year later, shortly after he told her to write his biography. (...)
Flash Fictions
A world-building bit about creating works of art
He was standing at the top tier of the viewing platform, leaning on the railing with a drink in his hand. Despite the festivities all around him, all the people (...)
A world-building story bit grown from the #GrowAWorld hashtag in Twitter
Every living being has a light inside of them, this fact all children of Farek-Hi knew well. And conversely, all light are life. When Arha was born, her parents told (...)
One prompt a day, for 25 days. I got 8 of them.
I ask you if you believe in ghosts, because if you don't there wouldn't be any point in what I'm about to tell you: beware the man who lives in shadows. (...)
For a challenge in my college club.
On his deathbed, my father told me he would become immortal after he died. I asked him how could that be, you can’t live forever once you’ve passed, but he (...)
Chess metaphors abound.
I learned most of my life lessons from playing chess. The first lesson I learned was to focus on the king, the target, the big game. All those other pieces–the (...)