Wulf wrapped his fingers around the rock. It was jagged, and dirty. He felt its rough edges cutting against his palm, but he didn’t care. He cared only about the weight of it, and the truth of his aim. He lifted his weapon slightly off the ground so that the […]
The coin felt like hope in her hand. Jessalynn smiled as she held it flat against her palm, rubbing it’s cold, bumpy surface with her thumb. This coin – this was the first. When the man handed it to her, so many years ago, it felt as heavy as the […]
The Top of the World. Ellianne looked down from her cloud and smiled at the sparrows that were playing the grass below her. The were little companions to her, the sparrows. Like mice to sit in her pockets, only the sparrows were free to go where they pleased, anywhere […]
Thief in the Temple As Artemis’ moon hung big and round and orange in the sky, and Zandra hid behind the towering stone columns and glanced over her shoulders, down the steps of the temple at Delphi. In the darkness, the streets were empty. She clasped her hands close to […]
Guilty Until Proven Innocent As she blinked, red dots splattered across her vision from the interrogator’s lights. Jyla kept her hands clasped to her sides. Her interrogator faced the steel wall. Jyla chewed on her bottom lip and watched him, waiting for him to move, listening for his breathing; waiting […]
Acceptance Her eyes lurked in the shadows. She saw the haggard man there and the scuffed iron pistol he held in his shaking hand, but she pretended she didn’t. If Vengeance deemed she was going to die between these red silk covers, then so be it. But she would die […]