“I’ve been thinking something this whole time. You’re afraid of me, aren’t you?” A girl, clad in the light blue robes that signified her profession as a seer — or as people would say in common parlance, a fortune teller, or maybe even an oracle — rested her hand on…

Finally. It was over. Years and years of tyranny, at last brought to an end. Lily pulled out her sword from the fallen dark lord’s body. It was smeared with blood, matching that which was slowly spreading on the floor, the corpse at the center of the bloody puddle. So…

(I originally wrote this based on a writing prompt) Heartbeat, heartbeat. Beat after beat after beat. Almost inaudible, nothing more than a whisper. An echo of what could have been. Of what we could have been. All the possibilities the rest of the world had already left behind. She looked…

All the essentials gathered. Snacks packed. Map in my right coat pocket. And most importantly: a proper course plotted. A look forward revealed mist-covered peaks. Storm clouds swirled in the sky. A sign of things to come? Of a game yet to start, to all but one. The battle of…

I think the title kind of conveys the gist of what I’ll say already, but just leaving at that would be boring, so here’s some text. Text that talks about why I felt like doing this, what I’ll be doing(hint: it’s in the title) and so on. First of all…

Every October the pain would come. Exactly at midnight on the first, like clockwork. An itch all over my body that I couldn’t make stop. An unbearable ache the likes of which I had never known before that and would never know again until the next year rolled around. This…

My hands shook, but part of me always knew it would turn out like this. She didn’t move. Laid completely still, as if frozen in time. Blood dripped down the edge of the blade I held in my hand. It was work. Nothing personal. I just needed to bring the…