October 31
Fictober, Prompt 31 – “Take me with you.” Original fiction, dark fantasy. Warnings: none. Night had fallen, though the last lingering echoes of sunset still lightened the western horizon, a break in the trees showing thin clouds streaked bloody red along their undersides. The road led that way, shadowed by mostly bare branches. Wind whispered…
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Fictober, Prompt 30 – “Don’t ruin this.” Original fiction, fantasy/fairy tale. Part three of three of my weird take on Cinderella. Part One (Day 28) and Part Two (Day 29). Warnings: none. Mother and Lorena were immediately obsessed with the notion that one of us might catch the Prince’s eye, especially when the ball was…
Keep readingOctober 29
Fictober, Prompt 29 – “Why are we whispering?” Original fiction, fantasy/fairy tale. Part two of three: link to Part One (Day 28). Warnings: none, other than the usual implications of abuse in any take on Cinderella. Our presentations at court did not go well. Mother had insisted on the traditional peach-colored dresses for both of…
Keep readingOctober 28
Fictober, Prompt 28 – “I don’t have to explain myself.” Original fiction, fantasy/fairy tale. Part one of a probable three. Warnings: none. A voice from the door startled me: “What are you doing?” I turned and regarded Ellie with as haughty a look as I could summon at half past midnight. “I don’t have to…
Keep readingOctober 27
Fictober, Prompt 27 – “You could have died!” Original fiction, horror. Warnings: vampire, implied violent death(s), nothing graphic. “There you are!” She scowled over at where I stood hesitantly in the doorway. “Where have you been? I’ve told you not to be out so late, and without even trying to let me know where you…
Keep readingOctober 26
Fictober, Prompt 26 – “I’m sure this has never worked, ever.” Original fiction, sci-fantasy/technomagic. Continuation: part one (Day 1), part two (Day 5), part three (Day 7), part four (Day 15), and part five (Day 22). This the sixth and final part of this story. Warnings: monster/eldritch horror, technically suicidal ideation (characters prepared to sacrifice…
Keep readingOctober 25
Fictober, Prompt 25 – “Do you know what time it is?” Original fiction, fantasy. Warnings: implied but unspecified looming disaster. The door creaked open behind me. “Do you know what time it is?” she asked softly. Groggily, I lifted my head from my arms, blinking in the guttering candlelight. “’m awake.” She laughed, and I…
Keep readingOctober 24
Fictober, Prompt 24 – “Is this supposed to impress me?” Original fiction, fantasy. Warnings: none. Uzela turned her great, scaled head this way and that, surveying the vault. She paced forward through the wealth we had amassed so far, her steps more careful than I would have supposed possible for a creature of her size.…
Keep readingOctober 23
Fictober, Prompt 23 – “This time, do what I say.” Original fiction, fantasy/horror. Warnings: monsters/gross monster corpses (no great detail). I slashed out, separating the head of the last shuffling monster from its body. It collapsed to the ground with an unpleasant squelch. I turned a quick, full circle to make sure that it really…
Keep readingOctober 22
Fictober, Prompt 22 – “No promises.” Original fiction, sci-fantasy/technomagic. Continuation: part one (Day 1), part two (Day 5), part three (Day 7), and part four (Day 15). One more part to come after this one. Warnings: implied monster/eldritch horror, air strike (but no people hurt). World-eaters were supposed to be a myth. We sent out…
Keep readingOctober 21
Fictober, Prompt 21 – “What did I say?” Original fiction, dark fantasy/horror. A follow-up to this piece (Day 9). Warnings: murder (off-screen), blood sacrifice, eldritch horrors, violent death. I walked carefully through the ruins of the basilica, lifting my robes with one hem to keep them from the dirt and soot and rubble strewn across…
Keep readingOctober 20
Fictober, Prompt 20 – “That’s what I’m known for.” Original fiction. Not really fantasy, medieval-ish setting. Warnings: stabbing, violent death. The tavern was crowded, and noisy enough to cover such private conversations as might occur around the edges of the room. I wasn’t surprised when a hooded figure slid into the booth opposite me, but…
Keep readingOctober 19
Fictober, Prompt 19 – “I feel strange.” Original fiction, fantasy-ish, horror-ish. If anyone is interested, this is the same world as this piece from Fictober19, but this piece stands alone just fine. Warnings: non-graphic discussion of forced shapeshifting? Not much in this one. The sound of a shift happening on the bed brought my attention…
Keep readingOctober 18
Fictober, Prompt 18 – “This was not part of the plan.” Original fiction, back on my we-need-more-dinosaurs-in-fantasy agenda. Warnings: none? Implications that a large predator eats meat? Definitely nothing graphic. “This was not,” I said through gritted teeth, “part of the plan.” Above and behind me, Shufen’s laugh sounded, though I wouldn’t have thought she…
Keep readingOctober 17
Fictober, Prompt 17 – “I’m with you, you know that.” Original fiction, vaguely Japanese-inspired fantasy. Warnings: nothing graphic, but: past deliberate burning of a home, implied death. I stood beside a rocky outcrop, looking down at the vast plain below. The rock did nothing to shelter me from the hot wind that blasted up from…
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