Aeron watched the ticking clock, the minute hand twitching with an audible clank, down towards its end, to his end.
Well, his probable end anyway. Especially if this essay was not completed.
He didn’t understand the emphasis. He was here to be a wizard, not a damn writer.
A sound on the edge of his conscious awareness. He [...]
Old Sir Basil isn’t all that old – he’s not young, but he has a sort of timelessness about him. I’m pretty certain he’s not really called Basil, and he’s definitely no Sir.
He blinked, peering at me over his handlebar moustache. Any other man of his age and style reacting like that and I would [...]
I lay upon the lectern, tightly closed, staring up at the man who dares to attempt to unravel my secrets.
I lie in a chamber with a time-locked door. The door will lock itself from the outside after a delay, giving those that enter my chambers only a half hour in which to read me – [...]
+++ An Extract from Shckun Nk’thron’Kar, (248595 AS) The Devourer – Most Deadly Of Interstellar Species, Karthram university press: Jigorn; Planet RAktoosh; Lor-kan system; Outer Magellanic Cloud. +++
It was bred to devour.
It consisted of thousands of tiny individual cells that swarmed across it’s prey. But although it appeared to be multiple individuals, and the individual [...]
The Warboar growled, it’s huge mane or razor-sharp spines rippling as it spat saliva throughout the clearing, shaking its head with rage, small red eyes rolling.
Gor stood before it, holding his short spear, it’s flint head glistening with blood scored from his previous clashes with his foe. He was not big or strong – at [...]
I’m a superhero. And today, I’m going to kill one hundred and ten thousand people.
My powers range from the flashy and impressive to the very, very simple. I can fly at thirty times the speed of sound, easily getting me into low orbit. I can lift one hundred and fifty billion tons of solid rock [...]
The Tale of Yideehg and Nliurg
The brothers of the crimson fist are known by many names, most of which have become curse words in the time since their most dreadful existence – I shall not offend you with any of them.
Following the fall, many robber barons and slum lords rose, as well as some men [...]
The rats were smarter than we expected.
The higher ups in the government knew all about them, had done for years – there were rats in the sewers of London, strange rats, big as a dog and so white as to be almost translucent. Ghost rats.
They took people, but they were smart – only went for [...]
Bjorn looked out of the tiny window onto the ill-lit ground. The pressure tent was spacious when it was first inflated – he had seen it personally – but now all of their equipment and supplies had been put inside it seemed cramped. He lay in the tiny cot by the window, his wife at [...]
The sky was dark.
Normally there were stars or moons overhead, or the great god-planet taking up most of the sky, but not tonight.
Grarl’s eyes could see the infra-red spectrum easily. If there were clouds, he would see them. And yet – nothing. He had entered his hibernation on a moonlit night. Now, following one whole [...]