Sky Bridge!_War Plans in the Culdesac._ Cold Comfort_Coronation Day
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Sky Bridge!
(Write a story about someone struggling to learn a skill that in no way comes naturally to them.)Time units are being gobbled up like matter falling into a black hole!This awareness makes my head hurt. It will take every ounce of training, every bit of mental conditioning to pull this off. It is a race between dwindling time and failing capabilities!~~~~~I should not have been wasting the precious time trying to regain strength and acclimate to this place in which I find myself. Everything here a charred mass of whatever had previously been here. This is where I was jettisoned when my craft w...
War Plans in the Culdesac.
For as long as Jakobb could remember, he'd lived in the town of Wasthret, a big and bustling place on the far side of the continent his family kept talking about, but he could never remember the name of. He was young, only seven, and had other things to worry about, like being the leader of the Worthy Creed, a band of other children in the town who protected it www.onedoor.ccfrom disruption and brought about peace wherever they went. He didn't actually know what the words meant, but his brother had given him the name, and he'd stuck with it.Jakobb sighed and focussed on the pot of reeds on the far side of t...
Cold Comfort
A wendigo howls outside the igloo, its relentless fury wearing on the young, pregnant widow whose husband died in my arms just before the long dark began. A full turning of the moon will occur before we see the sun again, and the beast outside will prowl for days, before its fury sates. In the dim light of an oil dish, I measure the food which the elders left for us."Bear-Slayer," she invokes my name. "What will we do?""Joyous Seal, stay here." I tuck my namesake's skin, a thick white fur, snug about her. "I will hunt for more food."The bear spirit flows in my veins. I can swim in the ocean an...
Coronation Day
The frosted glass blurred everything as Aven looked through it. There was a crowd outside, getting larger by the second. Every manner of person was there, along with delegations from each of the surrounding kingdoms—Pelma, Eveon, Thaloia, Amara, and even the isolationist Selvaine. A stage was still being set on the steps of the castle, a gilded throne at the summit. Every soldier currently in the area, and even some from elsewhere, was organized in regiments, watching and waiting for the main event. The courtyard was decorated with gilded banners and flowers of every variety, sun shining down ...