An Enchanted Autumn Path

enchanted forest beckons the trail well decorated with awesome treasures magic’s luster bright velvety orange and green leaves shimmer in golden sunlight mirthfully rustle dance with twirling steps flutter down to the mosses among delicate roses a trickling brook serenely skips along down below laughing with woodland critters who secretly tell the legend of the …

Dinner

An owl sits in the branches of a tree, looking to see what he will see. Eyes are alert, scanning the dirt. There! That's going to be dinner for me!

Fireflies

tiny lights flickeramong the leafy branchesmasters of surprise now appearing here fluttering around the tree disappearing there small lanterns floating guiding curious wanderers into the darkness

Axelle’s Quandary

Axelle had always found magic to be a fairly easy concept to grasp. She never bothered herself with the theory of how it happened; she just focused on what she wanted, and enjoyed the results. Additionally, she was notoriously strong willed, which when combined with a word of power, left a strong impact on the …

Of Dragons and Gold

There was once an old wyrm who felt it his duty to conform to the ways of his ancestors old and hoard a great sum of gold, much to the humour of a young drake believed the tradition was fake. “Why do you labour to make that heap of trash?” he asked the wyrm, who …

A Novel Idea

The unwritten story is too good to tell: the characters charming, the worldbuilding wonderful, the plot perfect But when you attempt to capture that magic you stumble over stereotypes, slip into sinkholes, and fail to breathe life into cardboard cutouts You make amendments, rewriting history and balancing backstories, inventing new villains, forging calculated conflict The …

Uncle Jack

Kayla had long learned to see past the veneer of truth to the deeper story whenever her Uncle Jack was visiting and recounting what had he had been up to since he’d last been in town. It was surreal to her how he expected her and her parents to trust his multitude of lies, and …

Balance

They warned not to be consumed by vapid things. Those vapid things would only be the beginning of an utterly meaningless life, and their villainy would trickle down into even the center of your being where the deepest wells of intangible value lie. So I believed that even the little things could not abide within …

The Gryphons

there were warnings not to take those paths; never linger near the nests, beware when feathers ruffle, and respect the royal truce but a different king in the castle desiring dangerous convenience decreed garish rewards to those who revealed the monsters muffled, and the land trembled in terror let the legends linger long, the memories …

Silver for Sale (part 9)

For the beginning of the story, click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 3.5, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 Recap: While under orders to figure out the mystery of what happened in an abandoned mansion, Tyla, royal historian, met Zayn, opportunistic burglar, and the two began to figure out that the Royal Advisor, Vellenio, had …