microfiction Suspended On Promises And Paved With Resolutions It’s a dream, I remind myself, and like every other year this doesn’t quite comfort me. After all, it affects the real world…
microfiction Spring Travelling For Seasonal Business We’ve done this for thousands of years, you’d think by now I could get a VIP pass or something…
microfiction A Dualities Duet High above us the cathedral belfry rings in the sixteenth hour of our vigil. We’ve already lost a score of singers, with eight hours left to go…
microfiction One Of Us Needs To Be Individual Every solstice, catching my shadow gets harder. How long do I have before dawn?
microfiction Buying A Reason I’d known about the Midnight Market since I was a child but never been before. It’s as eerie as everyone claims. I hope they’re also right about what you can buy here…
microfiction Born From Stories, Darkness, And Hope Why all the concern? All I had to do was tend the fire.
microfiction Traded For Tender Amber Song It’s that time again - the spirits have visited. What did they take, and what did they leave in its place?
microfiction The Wandering Door To Somewhere How long had that door been there? While there was nothing odd about the design, it was starkly out of place...
microfiction A Dear Sister's Frosty Advice I was surprised to get a knock at my door, and shocked it was a postie. All the way out here? But it only got stranger…
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 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 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…
microfiction Mortal Shackles Of A Fated Adversary When I realised what happened, at first I laughed. Youthful foolishness. I thought only that I’d be invincible…
microfiction Confession, Condolences, And Coffee I didn’t mean to start the day with a confession, but the waiter asked how I was, and I panicked.
microfiction Absentee Arboreal Father Honestly, I didn’t expect him to show up. But here I am, deep in a woodland park, waiting to meet the man who sired me.
microfiction Mutant Mould Or Whatever It’d been a long day already. I was not ready to walk into my apartment and see THIS clinging to the ceiling.
microfiction The Silence Collector Is there any sound sweeter than silence? I think not. That’s why I collect them. And yet, even after centuries, my collection is missing something…
microfiction A Gate To Nowhere Normally ghoul squads get sent in once caution won’t save you. So why are they telling us to be careful? What did they FIND under that ice?
microfiction The Last Train Home My life began to end when I fell asleep on the train home. A mistake I’d made plenty of times before, like who knows how many of my fellow commuters. But this time…
