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…
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 A Trellis Grown From Ashes Long ago, before the magic returned and the world fell apart, this place would’ve been filled with people. Liam knew that. But he couldn’t imagine it.
microfiction Riddle For The Ages “The Thin Veneer” was a strange name for a pub, and it had collected a suitably strange clientele. But for little Chrissy, who happened to live next door, soothsayers and fortune tellers were perfectly normal.
microfiction She's The Scary One It was supposed to bring peace and order! Well, probably. Nobody involved in the ritual ever stepped forward to explain. Or apologise.
microfiction Landing Point: Hubris It was going to be a wonder of technology, evidence of how far man had come over nature…
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 Who Stole The Moon? Cat was tired of this - after five nights of having to put the moon back in the sky, she was going to find out who was stealing it!
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 To Light The Sun Greg didn’t remember the last time the sun ruled the sky; he’d been born on the day the cycle shifted. That’s why he was tasked with climbing the Tower and moving the cycle on again.