Southern Gate was not a large town, if it could be called a town at all. The slow expansion of merchants and tradesmen beyond the city walls had drawn with it the housing, food markets, and other daily necessities that workers were too lazy to trek into the city for. Traffic through the massive silver…
Daily Snippit : Urban/Suburban Fantasy
It was the shadow that first caught her attention. It flicked along the baseboards in erratic skips, accompanied by the skittering noise that had plagued her sleep for weeks. Ha. She flexed her claws in glee as she slowly unwound from the pile on the foot of the bed. Mrrrr… Patches rumbled unhappily as Piper…
Daily Snippit: Science Fiction
Call a horse a horse, her Great Aunt’s voice echoed in Leda’s memory as she stubbornly stared down her opposing teammates. The animals in question were grazing behind the group, whuffling contentedly as they made short work of the local wildflowers. She could care less what Dr. Feldstone wanted to christen the deep magenta mammal….
Daily Snippit: Science Fiction
It was a rough language, full of barks and yelps and drawn out yowls. A mad mixture from the vocal chords from a dozen species, winnowed down to a shared range of sounds. The syntax was even more complex than the sounds themselves, as the Basic language class was finding out the hard way. Tess…
Daily Snippit: Science Fiction
Winter had always found the humans amusing. Bony, ungainly things that still refused to fear the sea. She watched them skim along the surface in boats of air, until they reached the edges of the Drop. She whistled to them, rolling lazily in the surf to wave one scarred fin in greeting. They waved back…