Stories 11 - 20
11 Hunting
11/02/2020 06:42
Smoke and noise swirled around the main room of the inn and the barmaids wove their way through it all with practised ease. Suddenly, the door burst open letting in the dark wind and every head turned towards the source of the disturbance. A figure almost filled the doorway but then moved inside...
12 Dreaming
11/02/2020 06:41
It was a long time since he had visited the Dream Palace but it looked just the same as it always had. Neera was still sitting in the little ticket booth, her third eye tightly closed. He had heard terrible things about what happened when a Parech's third eye opened. When she saw him, she smiled,...
13 Writing
11/02/2020 06:40
She stared at the blank screen in front of her, willing her brain to imagine a story that her fingers could type out. After all, how hard could it be to write a novel? Jeffrey Archer and Jordan could do it!
The screen remained stubbornly blank and she scowled at it in frustration.
What she...
14 Drawing
11/02/2020 06:38
He sketches quickly, using the writer's frame descriptions as a guide. A film that he has seen a thousand times before plays on the television, providing the white noise that he needs in order to concentrate. On the drawing board in front of him is a piece of crisp, white paper with a number of...
15 Praying
11/02/2020 06:37
All Mother, Holy Lady,
Dreamer of the sacred dreams,
You burn brighter than the sun,
You are darker than the night without stars.
You gave birth to my body and know every part of me,
And you will devour my soul when my dream ends.
Sleeping through the night time of eternity,
You...
16 Longing
11/02/2020 06:30
They say that longing does strange things to the mortal heart, but when it catches hold of an immortal one... Well, there's all eternity to pay.
There was once a mermaid who lived in a cave under an island in the middle of the ocean where ships seldom passed. She swam in the warm blue lagoons...
17 Telling
11/02/2020 06:29
I remember my mother telling me bedtime stories. They all started, “Once upon a time...” and they all ended “...and they lived happily ever after.”. No matter what scrapes or adventures the characters had to face, I knew that everything would be all right in the end, that they would always live...
18 Morning
11/02/2020 06:28
A noise somewhere nearby awakes Daughter-Born-By-The-Swollen-River and she opens bleary eyes. In front of her, all is blackness, but then she realises that this is because she is staring at her mother's back. She raises herself up a little to peep over her mother's sleeping form and sees the Shaman...
19 Ending
11/02/2020 06:27
This story began as a response to a prompt at Black Ship Books but wouldn't let me go until I had included it here.
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PERSONAL MESSAGE...
FROM: Cpt L Morris-Harvey, SS Demeter, in orbit around Planet Earth
TO: T...
20 Meeting
11/02/2020 06:26
I don't often write overtly religious pieces but this one just wanted to be told.
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Mary sat up and stared across at the window. She could not see it, which told her that it was still dark outside. Well, there was no point staying here...