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Angeline
She’s not wrong. I am nothing if not rare. Still, Angeline bugs me to no end. Do you know how incredibly infrequent people like you are, Ben? It’s a blessing you were born. Yes, yes, Angeline, a blessing. As if I weren’t aware. My whole life, my whole existence, a blessing. A blessing should still be allowed to be a cynic though. A blessing should still be able to laugh at the world. So when Angeline comes to me with her gratefulness nonsense, I’ll tell her, Do you know, Angeline, what it feels like to wake up with a hundred noisy people crowding around you? It’s a tragedy that I was born. I ...
The Ugly Flower
Not because you named your child after a flower already meant she would be as delicate, pretty, and as fragrant as the flower she was named after. It could be otherwise.Jinta would be seen every day in front of her flower shop. Her face would be a frown, her rich dark eyebrows a V-shape above her huge crooked nose. She was a strange sight amidst the beautiful flowers surrounding her. Toddlers would cry when they see her. Bigger kids would shoot her with pellet guns from behind and run away when she looks back at them with an angry face. Women will throw her looks of discernment whenever she wa...
Lumos
It was late afternoon in the City of Lumos, a City dotted with several Magical Beacons. According to Legend, many years ago, when Lumos was a nameless village, the Villagers had been terrorized by Orcs. The Villagers prayed to Tapaz, the Sun God, for help. And Tapaz, knowing that the Orcs were deathly afraid of Fire, created the Eternal Beacons that surrounded the pleasant meadow the village was built over. Without the threat of monsters, the village expanded over time into a full on City.One afternoon, a Hunter heard rustling coming from behind a thicket of reeds and instinctively raised his ...
The Dragon Queen
Circe ran down the gold-inlaid hallway, her heart pounding. She skidded to a stop in front of the copper doors, eying the guards standing at attention nervously. “I have something for the Queen,” she told them. They looked at each other, then the one on the left held owww.onedoor.ccut his hand. “Your scale,” he growled. She winced but handed over her dark red scale. Her body tingled as the small object responsible for her entire life left her touch. He inspected it for a second, then opened the door. She walked through them and down the throne room where her Queen was sitting. Circe knelt at the foot of the...