Hello again my dearest readers! I hope you are doing well as we race towards Christmas on the non-stop never ending steam engine that is modern life. I’ve done another thing and released another book, this time a short story collection themed around gender, which necessarily also talks about joy, pain and the human experience….
Category: Short Stories
The Little Shadow
Gather round the fire lovely ones, and look up into the night sky. It’s so beautiful, don’t you think? But it isn’t always so light, and sometimes you might get caught in the shadows (no that’s not foreshadowing, I promise). Ah, I also promised you a story did I? Very well. Once upon a time…
Short Story: Overcome With My Radiance
This is the start of a new series! A gender bent retelling of Hades and Persephone, I hope you enjoy it. Keep following along as things get a little bit hot in the nether regions of Greek mythos xo Well, dear readers, it’s been a little while hasn’t it? Do you think it’s time yet?…
Short Story: Underneath
Most good stories tend to start underneath things. Underneath trees, rich dark rainclouds, a beautiful lover, a sense of impending doom – these are all great places to start a story. Dear readers, I don’t start this story underneath anything quite so interesting, I’m afraid. I start this story underneath fluorescent lights and a plasterboard…
DnD Short Story: The Nightmare Realm
By Eve, with many many adoring thanks from me ❤ They all sat down in a circle on the ground, the ancient druid’s feverish body writhing on the bed beside them. As they closed their eyes, Laksha walked to each one, lightly touching them on the forehead sending them to sleep. Her whispered words brought…
DnD Character Backstory: Rose-Apple Pies
About six months before Rose met Kaia… Rose stood at the top of a cliff. It wasn’t a particularly big cliff, nor was it white and shining in the sunlight. It was, in point of fact, a rather disappointingly dull red rocky cliff overlooking the trickle of water that passed for a stream around here….
Short Story: Gum Leaf Cushions
Trigger Warning: Misogyny, Violence Brad and Kim were arguing, again. Their three-year-old was the terror of Freedom Furniture as she slodged pudgy handprints with pink bubblegum all over a shiny glass table. She ran off, came back, jumped up and down – but nothing seemed to get Mummy and Daddy’s attention. “It’s hard to explain”…
Short Story: Rust
Trigger Warning: Violence, Horror themes Verice swept past the rocky shoreline for the tenth time today. He was making excellent time, as usually he was less than halfway through his daily grind by primary solar noon. Verice hummed to himself as he clattered along, slowly transforming the whole beach into a mess of chain-tracks and…
Short Story: Services Were In Demand
Trigger Warning: Violence, Drug Use, Predatory Sexual Inferences Fright and fear were released at last from John’s mind. His burden, finally lifted. As the judge’s gravel snapped in a clear crack, John’s heart gave a leap. Freedom, at long last. It had been such a long fight, you see, and John didn’t really think he…
DnD Character Backstory: Rose x Kaia BFF
We come across Rose Annatar sitting by her campfire in the forest, brushing out twigs from her hair. She’s also rubbing her horns in frustration and, let’s be honest, loneliness. The honoured Stoat Furrbles was many wonderful things, but a good conversationalist was not one of them. There was concern in his clockwork eyes, lots…
MarieAthena & Co 