They gave her a pet rock as joke. A lonely pet for a lonely woman. She grew fond of it anyway. She greeted it every morning when she turned off…
The green and growing things gathered in the greenhouse. They shuddered their leaves and rasped their roots, communicating as only plantlings can. In the ivy-covered house beyond, the plant mage…
Have I ever told you about how a bird full of hate changed the course of my life? It was 2009. I’d been out of school for a year, and…
He collapsed, exhausted, in a spray of dirt and mulch. He’d run too long and too hard through the Wastes, past monsters with too many teeth and watchers with too…
This is post 1 of 1 in the series “Co-Writing with AI Dungeon” No plan. No direction. And a co-writer who can’t quite impersonate a human. These are the unedited…
She was in love with the lake. With the murky waters and spiralling dust lit up like stars in the sickly sunbeams. With dark fish that darted around her, curious…
Salkere development continues! If you’ve been following it at all on social media, you’ll know the main thing I’ve been crowing (and crying) about is branching dialogue, which is a…
The lizard peered into the pond, tilting their head from side to side. Instead of a little brown creature with a pointed muzzle and splayed toes, their reflection was a…
Originally a Mastodon thread. Have I ever told you about my first archery session and the Instructor Who Would Not Shut Up? My friend Sam prefers to have days out…
CW: discussion of fatphobia We exist in a culture that hates bodies. All bodies, really, but fat bodies especially. We are told to aspire to shapes only achieved through full-time…