It creaked noisily and rhythmically. I didn’t know there was so much steel in the thing, but as the candelabra swung in the wind from the broken windows it produced a high pitched whine. It reminded me of the start of an old Sergio Leone film I saw once many years ago. I don’t know [...]
Sorry about the lack of story yesterday. I accidentally started writing a short story instead, and ran out of time :O
The sun seemed strange that day.
I couldn’t put a finger on why. Perhaps it was an omen from the gods, a message warning of the dark times ahead. If so, the gods are truly despicable [...]
Those accursed things do not understand the truth, the reality of the situation the real strength of the LORD of the STAR in the HEAVENS, that great burning orb that watches over us all, grants us heat and light. They think it is just a thing, an object in the sky that has no choice [...]
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 [...]
Cities rose and fell over the course of its life, whole civilizations climbed to the lofty heights of power and then succumbed to inefficiency and pride. They crumbled to barbarism, and new cities rose in their places, finally consolidated as massive empires which fell again.
It found it amusing to watch them rise and fall, as [...]
Auburn flames rent the sky as the city fell, great towers succumbing beneath the orbiting might.
And no-one even knew an intelligence was behind the attacks until it was too late. Large asteroids on a near-miss course, winding up in low earth orbit, smashing communications satellites as they ploughed through. Their gravitational masses hauled tides out [...]
Reality shattered, the air between the portal breaking like glass. Jored Stormslayer looked up in horror, for now it seemed he was indeed too late.
The portal, located deep beneath the surface of the world where the very ground burned to the touch, was as wide as a house and as tall as a tower, and [...]
The golden skies were rent that day, torn in twain by blackness, a tear in the fabric of reality high in the atmosphere. It spread quickly, devouring the sky from horizon to horizon and enveloping the world, replacing the warmth and kindness of the nation of Askarrion with a dark world from another plane, populated [...]
Soft white light permeated the little warm cabin, reflected in from the white snows outside. The room was unlit, because it needed no light. It was heated by a tiny wood stove, because that was all it needed. There was an awl and a scraper on a work table, used for butchery of the remaining [...]
Every time it came up, he’d told them the invasion was a bad idea, that there was a good chance they’d be outmatched, that their enemies would counter with an invasion of their own. And they had scoffed at him, but now he had been proven right – and there was some satisfaction in that.
They [...]