Tag: dark fantasy
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Liefdom: Chapter 1
THE BIRTH OF THOMAS NARDOC Four Years Before The Escape The court wizard stood impatiently outside the queen’s chambers. He beat his fist hard against the door, as another thready scream wafted through and stumbled down the immense hall. King Phomax shouted from many rooms away, “Come back and drink with me, Ivoryfist. If she…
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Seeds of Forfeit: Chapter 1
THE FORFEIT Seven Years Before The Escape The sharp stone cut into his hand as he worked, chaffing and chapping his palm and his fingers. It took him five minutes to cut the branches with the stone, took him another ten to sharpen them. He bit into the bark and stripped the small sticks in…
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Seeds of Tarako: Chapter 1
THE EXILE Ten Years Before The Escape The sun was dying a bloody, silent death behind him, casting long, crimson shadows at his feet. Those shadows climbed the helm and the banister, falling to the ship’s deck and the blood and flesh that covered it. They were close enough to shore now that seagulls came…
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Chaste: Chapter 1
THE STAIN Seven Years Before The Escape An unholy sound rose into the air, ripping through the silence of morning and raking claws through the isolated minds of the citizens of Chaste. Cheryl lifted her head from the straw pillow and didn’t know where she was. She looked at the humble, wretched home around her…
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Legends of the Exiles: Chapter 1
DREADED DESIRES, Part I 31 Years Before The Escape Her head hurt. She kept running. She was hungry and hadn’t eaten in days. She kept running. This was much farther out than her father had ever taken her hunting. But the image of her mother screaming with reddened face, slapping and clawing at the floor…
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from Legends of Perilisc
THE SECOND AGE ~120,000 Years Before The Escape A thousand gods warred, legions of them lined shoulder-to-shoulder in ranks that cast twisting shadows on the surface of the shattered land. The sheer strength of their blows filled the air with thunder. The crunching of the lines, roaring against one another, displaced the air, and the…
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Seeds of Revenge: Chapter 1
SNIP Forty-Five Years Before The Escape The blade of her instructor was quick. Her father told her this man was the greatest field medic in his army, and though her instructor was well over sixty, and Cat heard that was old for a human, his hands never shook and he was not infirmed at all.…
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Seeds of Juniper: Chapter 1
AND SO IT ENDS Before Recorded Time “Well, what is it?” Tralaesh asked. Juniper looked at the object in her hand and grinned. She held it out to her best friend. “What does it look like?” “No fair,” Tralaesh said. “No games.” Juniper’s friend was beautiful the way only a breaking heart could be beautiful.…
Jesse Teller 