I can’t.
I can’t do that.
I can’t do any of that.
I don’t care what you say, I’m not trained for that, I have no experience with that, I don’t even know where I could start doing that.
It would be stupid of me to even try to do that. It’s too difficult, too strange, too weird.
It’s beyond [...]
Sir Herovian Herroldwraith crouched upon a narrow parapet, the rain lubricating the stone underfoot, the wind threatening to tear him from the wall and throw him into the chasm below. The abyss swirled with toxic red clouds that would reduce him to a withered husk before he ever hit the theoretical ground.
The Nygran revolt had [...]
The astute of you may notice the new category system, which is actually sane and doesn’t take up half the page like the old one. Huzzah!
I am a mute. I also have great difficulty writing and reading, for I came to those two subjects late – the Lady of the Manor took it upon herself [...]
This one might sort-of follow on from Mechanicattle. Or maybe not.
They rose first in the east.
Great lizards they were, not unlike slow worms or the salamanders one sees on occasion in traveling curiosities. But these things were huge and unnaturally proportioned.
Great teeth as long as swords they had, tough leathery hides, and each one was [...]
He spent his life staring at ceilings.
He was comfortable that way. And, being the king, he had the means to do it. All of his food was brought to him and spooned into his mouth. He would not sit up – he did not see why he had to. Works of literature were held before [...]
The silver scaled man bowed before his master, red wings furled close to his body.
The Master was tall with a face impossible to perceive beneath layer upon layer of cloth and a large thick cloak. He chuckled.
“Well done, Parias. Once again you have fought well, the humans shall suffer long and regret casting us out.”
“Thank [...]
This is my entry to the Fireflies in the Cloud 1st annual flash fiction contest. It’s exactly 99 words. Seriously. Count it. Not counting this italicized bit, thoguh.
It was July when they the dead rose.
It was not a midwinter’s night, when people shrank from the darkness, hid from night terrors. No, it was a [...]
The horned voranthys trotted between great twisted trees. It was small, no larger than a dog, but had hooves and a mane and many stomachs – like a cow in minature. It cropped grasses and small ferns, but frequently wandered into the forests for protection.
Occasionally it saw men. Tall, limber creatures – at least, by [...]
Just a quick note before today’s story: I’ve dropped Google Adsense because it just doesn’t seem all that relevant to this site – the ads would often pick up keywords in the fiction, which meant they weren’t really all that relevant. So I’ve gone to a donation system instead – there’s a link on [...]
Kl’thoran Rel breathed deeply within the suit, looking at the flat airlock door. For the past minute and a half pumps had been slowly removing the air and equalising the airlock with the pressure outside.
Rel’s heart pounded as he activated the internal heads-up display on his suit once again. Green across the board. He wasn’t [...]