1st person PoV

A collection of 129 posts

horror

A Trade Traded And Untraded

Nobody’s called me “DanDan” since I was, what, nine? But that wasn’t even the weirdest thing about the stranger who’d walked up to me on my way home from the shops…

horror

A Calling Seed

In my dreams, nothing I try helps. Nothing stops it. It always comes through, and seeing it makes my eyes burn, and the world screams and I wake up. But this time, it’s real…

horror

A Final Chance To Avoid Russet Revenge

I’m not the sort of person who goes to art galleries, especially insipid little local ones like this, but I found myself wandering into the exhibition…

fantasy

Fed By Coal And Magic And Hate

The Mirrored Palace has loomed over the valley for over two hundred years, an unassailable bastion. Now its walls melt and smoke chokes the sky. And I’m not done yet.

horror

Headhunting The Perfect Puzzle Team

By this point, logging into “The Truth Is Out Here” had slid from a habit to a ritual. Or maybe it’s more honest to call it an obsession…

horror

An Unwitting Accessory To Interstellar Smuggling

Hotels are expensive in a major spaceport like this, so friends ask to crash at my place all the time. I didn’t think anything of it…

horror

Facing What Is Unpredictable Yet Relentless

I line up the tests. Staring at the column of little plastic rectangles like they might change their minds. Might say something other than that I’m doomed.

urban fantasy

A One-Way Trip To Merad

Oh. I’m dreaming. “Er, not this time, old friend…”

horror

A Bout Of Unprecedented Sleepwalking And Nothing More

“My life is a lie. And I’m winning.” That’s what the note said. And it certainly looks like my handwriting. I don’t understand…

urban fantasy

Bold As That Midnight Muse

I just put the alumnus stream on for something to listen to while dusting, I never expected to have THAT MOMENT flung in my face, much less like this…

scifi

Eliminating Jammy Tells

CHUNK. The twice-carboniser disgorges the recarbonised slabs. My test begins.

scifi

Remember To Forget

“Now, you’ve read the information pack, yes?” I smile. I nod. I don’t scream at him.

fantasy

A Pair Of Cornered Scrags

When I saw the lean creature skulking about our root shed I assumed the worst; scrag raids have been ever more frequent and vicious.

realistic fiction

Floundering Over A Cafe Breakfast

“You look happier.” Jill’s words are careful. Her tone mild. It’s what she doesn’t say that stabs; “Wow, you really hated your mother, didn’t you?”

horror

Don't Feed The Well

“Money makes the world go wrong.” That’s what granddad always used to say. I didn’t understand until after he died…

urban fantasy

A Haunting Cohabitation

It’s a truly peaceful night; a light rain patters on my roof and everything, for once, is completely under control. Then the door to the basement rattles.

horror

Payment For Greed

“Excuse me, did you drop this?” I nearly jump out of my skin. Spinning to look behind me, where I’m CERTAIN there was nobody a moment ago.

fantasy

Ninety-Eight's Long Vigil Validated

20260818 Written for “Smogust’s Story Hoard”, prompt 12. I flap down to where the researchers are waiting, a clearing within view of their tents. “Hello. My nephew said you were looking for an old dragon?” “Yes!” Ah, the enthusiasm of a true scholar on the hunt. “You see, we

fantasy

Mutual Moral Code Breaking

Grey is as nonchalant as ever. Entirely at odds with how emotional I’m currently feeling. And how emotional I feel he SHOULD be, on finding me searching his belongings…

realistic fiction

Beauty From Adversity, Paint On Brick

It’s funny. Ever since we moved here, I dreamt of the day I’d finally leave. And now… on the eve of my triumphant escape… stepping out for fresh air turned into a farewell.

scifi

An Eon Of Stargazing And Collaboration

Since long before I hatched, dragons have watched the night sky and longed to know the truth of the stars…

scifi

Anomalical Managerial Concern

As I unseal the double doors I’m hit with a dissonant wash of cheap bleach and expensive cologne. Great. There goes any hope of getting off work early today…

fantasy

A Wish Gone Whickered-ly Awry

“Are you sure you need all this?” Wishy peers at the bags I’m loading onto the cart, tilting his head in what I assume is draconic puzzlement.

fantasy

An Inescapable Teacher

It amuses me how, even now, they’re baffled by my success with this dangerous magic. Assuming that I mastered it IN SPITE OF my body’s weakness…

fantasy

A Love Transformed But Never Extinguished

The first thing I notice on entering the inner temple, the Tomb of Linara, is the hush. As if the distant revelry does not dare intrude into this place of sorrow.