Fantasy
Lorelai & The Valley of Secrets
Prologue “There weren't always dragons in the Valley.” Lorelai heard a man’s voice whisper in her ear. She was having the dream again, she thought to herself. She had it many times before, each slightly different but always so similar.
By Susan Grondin4 years ago in Fiction
The legend of a lullaby
The door was opened to a world where time plays no role. Nothing is born and nothing dies. All that existed in this world were gifts of endless possibilities. Like a tube of sealed paint in an artists possession that has no particular intended use, waiting for the inspiration that brought it to existence to experience a story.
By Nathan Williams4 years ago in Fiction
Healing Us Both
By choice I have returned to a place I swore up and down I would never return to. By choice I decided to live on land that has endured so much grief and pain. Two generations of my lineage have lived here, including myself. This land has seen upheaval, poisoning, deforestation, senseless feuds, and abuse. She has been cut down, molded, and reformed. Her waters run red with clay as if she is eternally bleeding. Trees have grown to contort around cold metal structures. Her soils stripped of nutrients. Amphibious life can only temporarily exist before being choked out by excessive iron deposits. Fungus is limited; community severed. Yet she has lived on. She seems to thrive but has only merely survived.
By Alexandria Rae4 years ago in Fiction
Stoic Paradise
He sat alone in a dark room face planting his desk. His arm was still hurting… but otherwise would be fine. Around him were papers recklessly smattered around the room: some were government issued, some were personal notes, and some… were pictures… of a child.
By Gabriel Walden4 years ago in Fiction
The Bones of Fire Valley
“There weren't always dragons in the Valley.” The expert paused and scanned the group with his eyes. “Thanatosdrakon amaru, the Death Dragon, has been dated to the Late Cretaceous, the last of the three geological periods of the Mesozoic era. These beasts probably perished as a result of the asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula, but until then they were the rulers of the skies here in the Cuyo region. The largest pterosaurs ever discovered in South America, and one of the biggest species discovered in the world.”
By Taru Anniina Liikanen4 years ago in Fiction
A Fairy Tale
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Werewolves no longer hunted their prey in the full moon's light. The soft twinkling lights of the Fae had faded from the river banks and sweet flowers tangled in thickets. Kings and Queens still sat on high, but magic was slipping out of the kingdom.
By Mandi Evans4 years ago in Fiction
This sinking feeling
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Then again, there weren’t always breast implants and men wearing jean shorts either. San Fernando Valley hadn’t been called home in decades. Then it had been just a valley teeming with wildlife and expansive bodies of water, the perfect haven for an immortal creature of the Earth such as himself. It wasn’t until the gold rush of the late 1800s that brought people that polluted the pristine, peaceful environment and forced creatures like Atticus to adapt or leave. Atticus had chosen the latter. Since then, he'd visited, but less frequently as the people-infested planet became more prevalent across the entirety of California and then Northern America. This trip, however, would force him directly into the throes of the bustling city. There would be no avoiding the dragons that had hoarded restaurants and shops by the dozens, there would be no avoiding the werewolves in the downtown crowd, or even the vampires that lurked the night clubs. Not if his sister was involved. Atticus had heard rumors that someone in the Valley knew where his sister was, and he wasn't about to leave any stone unturned to find the truth, even if stone-turning involved dragons.
By Jessica Cook4 years ago in Fiction
The Dragons of Ethenia
There weren’t always dragons in the valley. As far as we knew, they died out over a thousand years ago and had never migrated past the mountains to the East. They say one act, no matter how unimportant it seems, can alter the course of many lives. I never understood the saying fully until one year ago, when my choices brought the dragons back.
By Laura Horst4 years ago in Fiction
Somewhere Between Earth and Sky
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Centuries ago all of dragonkind had left the earth we knew for an alternate dimension. There they built a flourishing society and lived in peace. Until they turned their eyes back to the earth of humans, of technology and progress and exponential growth. To the earth where wars of greed and religion destroyed as much as we'd built, where climate change and ocean-rise ruined the land, where disease and poverty and starvation prevented humankind from thriving.
By Hillora Lang4 years ago in Fiction
Dragons in the Valley
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. I have lived in this Valley my whole life, but never before have I laid eyes on dragons in my life, and it’s my fault they’re here. The sound of gunfire echoes across the valley, but their hides are so thick that the bullets bounce right off. With a mighty breath of fire, a turret is destroyed killing all the people inside. The turret’s debris slides down the Valley’s walls down to the ground below with a mighty crash. Why? Why did I dabble in the dark arts? Is this why they’re illegal? What’s the point of such a spell if you can’t even control your dragons?
By Jeremiah Ellison4 years ago in Fiction
