It was a day both hot and wet, the rain sizzling on the pavement. A young child found their umbrella missing and sighed. Out the window, they saw people running…
You pant as you crest the mountain. Before you lays a vast, still lake, so clear and so brilliant in the setting sun that it appears full of pink clouds…
Beneath a hazy golden sky, you slide down from your forest boulder perch, the soft moss protecting you from scrapes. ‘Prrreek!’ You glance back to see a flash of gold…
Hi, I’m Veo! Not so long ago, my name was Victoria. That name didn’t suit me, so I changed it. Unfortunately, that name was also published on all of my…
Two figures huddled behind a rock, staring through goggled eyes at the smouldering crater where even now a fiery light bloomed. The flaming lioness emerged, her mane sharp rays of…
The plant mage stood beside the tree, gesturing to a trail of small plantlings that trundled along on their many roots. Her flower-printed robes were sweat-pasted to her skin beneath…
Way back when I first joined Mastodon in like 2017, I made a comic strip about fatness. I had just crossed the barrier from being thin to being fat and…
‘Our scanners are picking up an anomaly.’ ‘Give us a visual.’ Empty starscape blinked onto the screen. Distant stars like glitter. None of the expected confetti of asteroids. No planets…
Have I ever told you about my mother’s familiar and his secret? For reasons I don’t understand, my mother has always had cat magic. I’ve since met other people with…
It was meltingly hot, which was a problem for someone made of ice. She stared at her hands, normally a perfect cloudy glass, now slick and shrinking. ‘That’s it,’ said…