He screeched, roared, felt the pain rip through him and he dropped to his knees. The bedroom was empty, he was glad of that, and no-one could hear him this far out in the countryside. So he roared his lungs out in pain fearing for what was hapening to him. He did not fear death, [...]
I twitch I crawl and grunt and I squeeze as I pull myself through these narrow passages low caverns ever pulling myself forwards through darkness and night and water and air and I have nothing to eat I have not eaten in days but on I must push myself the knowledge is too strong the [...]
The knight hefted his sword and roared out across the grey, overcast moor. His small army gathered behind him, at first fearful of their enemy, until they remember their leader’s reputation. Sir Guillam the Bloodthirsty, his skill at arms and the enchanted ancient weapons he bore would surely see to the swift defeat of those [...]
Morning shattered, her crystalline limbs spinning across the floor as she fell. Dawn and Noon quaked either side of her, desperately fearful but unable to run.
He would show them. They had been so cruel to him in the past, dawn pushing needles through his eyes, morning making him groggy. There should be one time, one [...]
No Flash tomorrow, as it’s christmas and I’ll be spending time with the family. Normal services resume on Tuesday. Go ahead and reread Solstice, since I feel it works just as well for Christmas.
As the sun sank once more, brought low again by the monstrous dragons of night, a clamour arose in the halls across the land. Feasting and celebrations, dancing and drinking, the noise of speech and story telling, the smell of wood smoke, all inside was light and warm as a midsummer day. None thought of [...]
Night swept in from the east, the dark hordes, led by twelve dragons, charged across the blue fields of the sky, claiming the clouds and turning them red with the blood of their inhabitants.
Over the next few hours the hordes covered an incalculable distance, before finally reaching the now elderly scion of glory at the [...]
The night fell swiftly. Too swiftly, in fact. He shrugged his shoulders, for, though such sudden a change was disconcerting, this was natural in the winter wasn’t it?
He blew into gloved hands as he walked through snow-filled winter streets, overhead streetlights, casting an orange pallor to the snow. It was unhealthy, somehow, that orange.
It wasn’t [...]
The steely prongs cut deep into the surface of the world, supporting the great monolith of a tower. For it was a monolith, a single lump of stone cut deep from some strange other world, laid upon the surface upright, a massive obelisk casting dark shadows across the countryside.
Within there were few passages or pathways. [...]
They were banners on a cloth map, a vast single piece unfurled on the table.
They were highly decorated with figures of men upon them, knights on horseback, soldiers with pikes and wizards supported on their shields by slaves all marched across the countryside. He scoffed at the inaccuracy, only wishing that his enemy looked so [...]