This is a serial fiction posted in one toot daily (ish) during October on Mastodon. It was unplanned and experimental, and I’m pretty happy with the result. I hope you…
Every day, the hound watched the sun set over the graveyard, walking between the headstones, nose quivering in search of a particular scent. As the sun vanished behind the mountains…
He hurried home across the park, hands thrust deep into his pockets. The moon was too sickly to light his path, leaving the lake a looming void. ‘Quack.’ The sound…
Every full moon, they locked their doors and shuttered windows. They barricaded, they barred, they held their children tight. And listened for the crystalline ringing of silver hooves. In the…
There is a boy who can read the birds. He throws crumbs to the town pigeons and in the pattern of their pecking, sees illness coming to his school. He…
The dragon lowered a rainbow-hued head to sniff the small, furry morsel. To her surprise, it hissed and puffed up, and swiped at her with surprising aggression. Perhaps it was…
Author Assaph Mehr (represented by their character, Felix the Fox) hosts The Protagonist Speaks, where characters are interviewed in-world. It was a lot of fun to write and actually meant…
Red light gleamed from the dark hollows of her eyes. Her skin grew aged and leathery as parchment. She bared cruelly pointed teeth. ‘This is what I am,’ she said….
‘Can I get you anything?’ he asked. ‘A cup of tea?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘I insist.’ Reid found himself sipping gingerly at a cup of tea a few minutes later….
Some loves transcend death, and so it was Lola. Every day, she waited in the window for her human, her tail clacking against the windowsill. When she heard a car…