A father’s ultimate sacrifice

When you become a parent, it’s a no-brainer that you’ll do anything and everything in your power to protect your children. Throughout most of your child’s life, that time never comes (except in certain situations, of course), and you pray it never comes, because you want to keep your child safe no matter what the … Read more

Born Out of War

I was seventeen when I graduated from high school. My mother had died two years before and dad had just not been the same, he died a day after I graduated. I think he held on that long only because of me. The doctors said it was of natural causes. I think it was because … Read more

Suffering From Sanity

Chapter One I’ve been here for five years. Many have proven incapable of surviving this long. They lose their minds and succumb to the insanities they are labeled. They are defined by their insanities and are slaves to them. They come in here, secretly denying their insanities, and over time, are moulded into the exact … Read more

Chosen

The story starts with an man at the tower of Babel depicted in the bible. This man sat hovering high above the city on shimmering white feather wings as he shouts to the king “you have betrayed me and my purpose I fight for freedom for all kinds but you have enslaved the witches, vampires … Read more

The Cat (Complete)

Part one I walked the street, no one giving me a second look. They all thought I was a beggar or street scum that preyed on the unwary. I was wearing ragged looking clothes and was dirty and kind of unkempt. Even though I was eighteen I looked much younger. It was the front I … Read more

Ranger of the north (Complete)

Chapter one Earning my weapons My father had been a ranger and his and his. I had trained all my life to follow them and as soon as my twentieth year came I left the large fortress in Blue Pass. Many went north through the pass to earn their place, I went west along the … Read more

Shadow (Complete)

Chapter 1 I was born William Edward Kingson. My mother had been a maid in the Keep of king Henry. I was the bastard son he refused to acknowledge like several others. My mother ended up marrying the captain of his guards. He was the one that taught me how to use weapons and how … Read more

Wizardly protector

I found the trunk in side room off the basement. It must have been a secret room at one time, but the door had crumbled with the passing of time. I was eighteen and lived on an old sail boat in a boatyard. Not that that was bad, the boat was fifty feet long and … Read more

Hole in the ground (Complete)

Chapter 1 Remembering I was born July 25 1940 and my name is Samuel David Grey. I enjoyed learning new languages and could speak and understand seven by the time I graduated from high school. My father had been a veteran of World War II and came to believe a man should be able to … Read more

The Wrath of Gaia pt 2

I awoke to the feeling of cold air berating my throbbing head, but as I reached up to rub my temple, I noticed that my hands were tied behind my back. I start to look around, trying to patch together what has happened so far as I happen to look down and realize that I … Read more

Mercenary Scout

My name is Hunter Silvan. I am nineteen and had just finished burying the last of my family. We have lived here at the base of the northern mountains for ten generations. I have grown up learning to fight, track and hunt, my mother had made sure I could read and write as well. Life … Read more

Assassin No More (Complete)

Chapter 1 Opening my eyes I had always been different than others of the clan, I was faster and have better endurance. I was better with weapons or my hands, I was also better at solving problems. What I was not was a full clan member. I had been bought in a market by the … Read more

Wooden man.

I sat alone in the corner, now that the vampires are all dead they don’t need me anymore but they said they’d still use me as a plaything now and then. I should introduce myself before I tell my story I suppose, I’m Milo, a walking, talking wooden man. I know what you’re thinking, I … Read more

Polyjuice Potion and the squib

I remember how it all started. It started the day my sister got the letter. I had been expecting it to come – always hoping against hope that she would be a squib like me. Then I wouldn’t feel so inferior. I had always been jealous of my sister. She got all the genes that … Read more

Keeping things even (Complete)

Chapter one The Merchant’s Home I watched the merchant’s home from two houses away. The large gargoyle I was hiding behind was more than big enough to hide me. I watched as the door opened and both the merchant and his annoying wife walked away. I waited until they were down the street further and … Read more

Holiday Short Stories

Tastes like Chicken —————————– I stumbled down the street my guts feeling as if they were being ripped apart, the night street lights hardly providing adequate light, the worst thing was my hunger had grown to monstrous new heights. Where was that idiot of a wife of mine? I’d starve to death before she ever … Read more