Fantasy
A Devil’s Oath (chapter 1)
The letter arrived on a quiet and cloudy Monday, stuffed beneath Katherine’s dormitory door like a secret someone was too afraid to deliver in daylight. No return address. No signature. Only a wax seal—deep crimson, stamped with a foreign crest: a dragon, its fiery flame blown into the shape of a devil’s horn.
By Mary Camilli 3 months ago in Chapters
Adventures of Oahron (part 8)
Wind whistles itself a lingering howl, yet still there is a stretching silence to follow. Neither dead nor harmed, Oahron sits in the middle of a mysterious hollow, still shrinking from the curse. The door is gone now, and Magenta is outside the walls pacing in panic. She has grown very fond of this young Zenroe boy already, and she was right about him not escaping, only wrong about him being dead.
By Netanel Lynn3 months ago in Chapters
The Season 2 premiere of Landman features Sam Elliott's first appearance: New Drama Starring Billy Bob Thornton
When Landman rebooted for the sequel, it did more than simply pick up the elements of its oil-soaked drama; it added a towering presence that transformed the series' whole environment. Sam Elliott, with his undeniable gravity and a voice that seems sculpted from the West itself, walked into the drama as Tommy Norris' estranged father, played by Billy Bob Thornton. The series' emotional landscape was instantly enhanced by this casting choice, which added additional layers of tension, history, and silent sadness.
By Raviha Imran3 months ago in Chapters
Sparrow on a Plank Chapter 3: Finding the Right Help
That afternoon, back on Cyrill, the interviews began. While Sal tried to find a boat that fit their criteria (pretty much the cheapest yet fastest ship she could find) Hajime started researching the target. After all, even the best intelligence forgot something. In this case, the cultural dossier had been forgotten. Which meant having to go into the backshelves of the worst library on Cyrill, hoping to find something despite their complete lack of organization. Hajime had learned early on to hate the backshelves.
By Jamais Jochim3 months ago in Chapters
The Mirror That Shows Your Future
When Evelyn bought the mirror, she thought it was just another antique, something to fill the empty space in her apartment. It was a beautiful piece, framed in dark oak, with a subtle, almost imperceptible crack running along its edge. The kind of imperfection that seemed to add character.
By Echoes of the Soul3 months ago in Chapters
Kerlaugar
Chapter One: The River The morning began, as most mornings did at Stillwater, with the river speaking. It spoke in a language Reed had known since he first learned to paddle: a steady, rolling voice of cool currents and bright, tiny silver scales that blinked like stars. It spoke in the slap of water against mossy stones, in the hush of reeds that bent and whispered secrets to one another, in the soft clucking of kingfishers returning to their nests. Reed listened with his whole body—the twitch of whiskers, the tilt of ears, the pressure of paws on the slick riverbank—and the river told him everything he needed to know for an ordinary day.
By Toby Heward3 months ago in Chapters
The Sparta Chronicles. AI-Generated.
The very air of Tartarus clung to them, a suffocating shroud that choked the breath from their lungs. Each inhale was a desperate struggle, a testament to the crushing weight of this forsaken realm. Ahead, the Styx oozed, its black, viscous current sluggish and foreboding, catching the faint, ghostly shimmers of a light that promised no warmth. And there, a figure etched from the very shadows, stood Hades, his obsidian robes a seamless extension of the Stygian gloom. Beside him, a sentinel of darkness, a hooded shape remained unnervingly still.
By Carolyn Patton3 months ago in Chapters
The Sparta Chronicles. AI-Generated.
The suffocating silence of the night pressed in as Sparta, the philosopher-king of Corgis, and his shadow, Jackson, the unwavering sentinel of a blue heeler, materialized from the swirling vortex of temporal displacement. Their ceaseless pilgrimage through the shattered tapestry of epochs, stitching reality with their very beings, had etched a weary rhythm into their souls. Yet, this return, this return to the sanctuary of their shared existence, clawed at Sparta's very core with a primal dread. The moment their paws touched the familiar threshold of the small, unassuming dwelling they shared with Pandora, their anchor in the tempest of time, a suffocating unease seized him, a visceral premonition that chilled him to the bone.
By Carolyn Patton3 months ago in Chapters
