“Wait, so you’re not a vampire?” “I–,” she paused, unsure how to answer the girl. It was so much easier to say what she wasn’t than what she was, but humans had this driving need to name things. Even things that didn’t have a name. “Not really. Not the way you mean.” “Oh, well that…
Awake, alive, amazed…
It has been a long, long while since I’ve stayed up until the world wakes up. Until the sidewalks by my window are lit by something other than the flickering streetlight. For a confused hour or so I thought the birds were simply background noise from the TV in the other room, and then the…
Daily Snippit: High/Second World Fantasy
The magical stones lay in a heavy frosting across the valley and in the glut of it the Binders grazed contentedly. To one side, the Bound shared travel rations and compared notes on the various pooling locations. It was rare to see this much magic manifest at once, and they had several theories on the…
Daily Snippit: High/Second World Fantasy
The clock had rolled past midnight and down the long lonely hours of night. He watched the minute hand creep closer to that silver line when he would have finally stayed up too late for sleep. Once that had passed he could drive forward, burning through the momentum until he collapsed into to dreamless heap….
Daily Snippit: Urban/Suburban Fantasy
When he first woke up, he thought he could see. It wasn’t until the week’s worth of testing and poking and prodding and thoughtful Mm-hmm’s was over that he found out he couldn’t. They explained it in long complex strings of Latin and scientific-babble, as if somehow the accident had given him an innate grasp…