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…
Thunder rumbled. He gazed out the window in frightened fixation. His was the only house around. Lightning struck the tree outside. When the storm passed, he ran out to mourn…