3rd person PoV Invited After All Just as the family finished setting the table and sat down for the Solstice Feast, there was a knock at the door. A traveller.
microfiction Honeyed Memory Wrapped In Waxen Forgetting “The bees know their way home, grandma. It’s not like they’d forget.”
microfiction A Fire Shared Is A Fire Grown Hannah had never thought much about Hearth Week. And she was now too old to believe in monsters…
microfiction The Mask That Reveals I was excited and anxious about taking part in the Midwinter Chorus. What mask would choose me? Would I be able to do it justice?
microfiction The Hearth Eternal The longest night. The oldest fire. Two strangers, bound by destiny. “If you were called, welcome. If not… turn back now.”
microfiction The Errant Lonely Bell It was a tradition old as copper, though these days most of the bells were made of bronze or silver. All through the warm months they sang. But tomorrow’s the first day of winter, the silent season…
microfiction The Ghosts Of Holidays Long Past Perhaps it was the spiced wine, or the memories of holidays past, but August found himself reflecting on the puzzle of mortality.
microfiction A Glimpse Into The Winter Habits Of Forest Dragons Here we see a juvenile forest dragon, resting in the yearling burrow she shares with her litter-mates…
microfiction A Party To Deceit That familiar masked figure blocking the alley meant my hopes were dashed - unless I can convince what I could not escape…
microfiction The Importance Of Earnest Truth-Seeking I must make it clear that I would normally never interact with an obviously magical artefact, but something pulled me to the eerily white, faintly glowing board…
microfiction It’s Called A Guilt COMPLEX For A Reason Graham suspected there were dozens of movies with premises very similar to this experiment, and was starting to wonder if he should have watched some of them…
microfiction Pushing The Boundaries It was a comfortably dull day in the grants administration department - until Professor Williams stormed in.
microfiction Funny Business Marvin understood why corporate didn’t refuse service to trickster fey. But he did bitterly wish, at least four times a day, that the jokesters hadn’t developed a taste for human television.
microfiction Ever After Princess gets kidnapped, prince rescues her, they fall in love and marry and live happily ever after. That was how it WORKED. How had he managed to mess this up?
microfiction Strands That Never Loosen Once a week she faces what was a ritual of unity and is now an act of remembrance.
microfiction Locked Voices There was great excitement when little Heidi started to vocalise. The first of her family to have magic! Perhaps THIS child would be the one to finally break the curse…
microfiction The Particulars Of Contemporary Bog Witch Fashion Esme prided herself on being an expert in witch fashion, but her latest customer was testing both her skills and her patience.
microfiction My Other Three-Quarters Jenni understood why so many people preferred non-sapient prosthetics, but for her, this partnership was perfect.
microfiction The Immortal Book Club Sometimes what you really need is people with commonality. Especially if part of why you struggle to make friends is the hassle of dealing with mortal timeframes…
microfiction Petal Pals Forever I didn’t always hate Emily. But then her magic came in, and being nasty about her was a comfy topic at school. So when I saw her going into an alley I was eager to snap some gossip…
