Fantasy
Tanith and the Dragons
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. Tanith climbed the old oak tree as high as she could go. It gave her good cover while she got a good look at the behemoths guarding the entrances to the valley. “Behemoth” she thought to herself. Gran would be proud of me using my word a day calendar. Although, if things continued as they were, there wouldn’t be much call for it in the future. She couldn’t leave the Valley. Who was able to come and go seemed random. Some merchants, like her father, had been barred exit for months while others made the trek back and forth readily. Soon, everybody’s wares were rolling out of the Valley in the three wagons that seemed to get a free pass.
By Nicole McClain4 years ago in Fiction
A Trial By Fire
"There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The Grungpa speaks of a time when the Valley was deserted. The rivers ran dry, the trees were bare, the animals had no young. Then came the Hroynir, the great dragons. Nobody knows where they were born but one day they just appeared: some from underground, some from the clouds, and some, it is rumored, came from the realm of the stars. Then the Valley blossomed, the trees burst into fruit, the rivers swelled past their banks, and the herds and prides resumed their eternal dance of life and death."
By Vivek Raghuram4 years ago in Fiction
First Date
Many who know of me and the niche of study my journalistic integrity endures wildly brings me into the faces of many broken, twisted, unstable, intriguing, or plain freakish oddities in human form. I remain crude to remain social leveling with their off-centered biases, upsetting others in my field who can’t take the risky behavior that radiates poor outcomes with every question I pose. These Rock stars, eccentric Nascar drivers, or agoraphobic architects winning awards but call to say they’re in a DMT coma and can’t pick it up until the Titan’s orbit reverses the tides. These tasks I’ve taken to bring to light the strange, the unknowable, the fringes, ugly cursed stepchild have been to broaden the horizons of the dark and fanciful that exist inches from your daily lives. Not all of it pans out to anything more than some coo-coos with talent no one needs, according to readers of my last few stories, but the wait is over. It’s been three years since my time wrestling with the unfathomable antics of The Whiskey Hotel during their Witchy Bombardment European tour, and now I’ve finally got in contact with another bonified anomaly. She’s known as Detective Alice Scarlett.
By Willem Indigo4 years ago in Fiction
Dragon's Bane
Chapter One There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Not until the war, where they were bred and tortured into cruel manipulations of their former glory. Used to fight their masters’ battles, ripping apart our world with tooth and claw, leaving destruction in their wake. Leaving the world in ruins. The Tuluks won the war, but in the end, their dragons turned on them, too.
By Amanda Terrane4 years ago in Fiction
We the Women
“I am so grateful, Pomona, that you allowed me to host this party in your orchard. I would have invited everyone to my sacred garden in the west, but the Hesperides are so finicky about letting others enter the garden, and the dragon Ladon is terrible company.”
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Fiction
[ the Mouth of the Abyss. ]
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley, and nobody is quite sure where they came from or when they began to settle in that yawning chasm that the locals called the Mouth of the Abyss. It wasn’t until the tragedy of William Teller this past autumn that the villagers knew these monsters existed. The boy was the first to hear the infernal creatures.
By daniel alexander4 years ago in Fiction
The Legend of Kat
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The town was terrified by the sightings and encounters with these creatures. I was informed that one of the innkeepers was killed by a fire dragon last week. I was not sure if this fire dragon was one of the shifters. The shifters were the dragons who were able to transform into humans. Some did not even know that they were shifters. These folks had to find out the hard way when they destroyed their loved ones. I found it outlandish that one could be born as a human, and then turn into a dragon later in life.
By Leona Valentine4 years ago in Fiction
