The ritual began with paint. Smeared across the eyes, across the lips, exaggerating the features, exaggerating the magic. Then a nose to draw the eye: look here. Look at me….
It’s dark. Rain rolls and bounces through the forest canopy and chimes against the windows of their little hut. They don their coat and hood, fill their pockets with pebbles,…
The red dragon crumpled to the ground, her wings snapped, her heart bared and beating with a weak volcanic glow. The knight limped up to that hulking, steaming body. His…
She’d found him tied to a fence at the side of the road, a noose around his neck and no collar to be found. A large black dog with a…
There’s a crackle of electricity as you look up from your phone. Just as you realise it’s coming from your computer, something bursts from the screen in a flash of…
‘In the Mirrordeep, you will face your true self,’ the witch had said. So she descended into that matte black lake, and not a ripple appeared at her passage. Down…
It was a kiss with teeth, all hunger and bloody mouths as the rain soaked them to the bone. The elf leaned back, pressing a finger to her wounded lip….
They stretched and turned over in bed as sunlight streamed through the window. It was surprisingly luxuriant. They opened their eyes and saw not hands but furry paws at the…
I am not the kind of person who goes to live shows. I’m not the kind of person who leaves the house, to be perfectly honest; I have that potent…
He opened his eyes and there, white-smiled and wide-eyed in the midnight gloom, was the creature. It hung back against the wall: long arms, long body, round head. Hairy, but…