When you close your eyes, you see it. Golden towers skirted by lush forests. The glint of a thousand windows lit like lanterns. A shine so bright it turns the…
The mist here thickens. Though sunlight pierces the autumn-sparse forest canopy, it does little too alleviate the chill. You pull your coat more snugly about you and rub your hands…
You are reading beneath an old oak tree when you hear it. Trilling, somewhere between a bird cry and a cricket chirp, coming first from your left and then from…
There was a gift on the table. A small box, neatly wrapped in brown parcel paper and twine and a little tag that read ‘Happy birthday!’, unsigned. She unwrapped it…
Every day she added to the jar. Just a thin layer of dirt at first. Then grass. A bit of moss. Seedlings. Sticks. A flower. She pooled water into a…
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…
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…
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…