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Dorian The noises coming from outside the tent were the worst ones Dorian had heard in his life. Everyone talked about the sights and smells of battle, the fear that sang through everyone fighting, but no one mentioned the screams of the dying, the clash o...

Edyth Candle making had always been a soothing, if sweaty, process for Edyth. Something about a familiar routine, a job she was good at, brought her deep peace, which was nice. Avan knew she needed it at times. Plunging what would become a wick into molte...

It took Eradnee weeks to recover, not that I'd expected anything else. A key piece of their psyche had been fundamentally altered. Of course they needed time to adjust. I'd spent my own convalescence period in isolation. Before me, the feralae had been coasti...

Kase None of my people, thralls or keepers liked it when my training required time outside of the citadel. Their uneasiness had always made me uncomfortable, so Jhi's relative enthusiasm for today's activities had been a nice change of pace. He was skipping...

Long Ago “Jeanie Carlson is one crazy bitch,” they used to say. How cruel some could be. It was true that from the moment she first learned to speak, Jeanie had been anything but ordinary. Her parents had known it as soon as she’d been born. “She was alway...

It’s been five minutes since class started, and still, Tutor Arelle’s pacing at the front of the classroom. With a sharp nod, she stops behind her desk, leaning forward to plant her hands on it. “In the year 3218, the Event shattered Vathaylian society, killi...

I didn’t like walking down Houston’s streets at night. To be fair, Houston’s streets didn’t have my skin crawling or make me swivel my head for danger. That came when I was in any big city after dark. Houston just happened to be my home at the moment. Today h...

No one likes to travel. I don’t mean visiting other places and enjoying what pleasantries could be found there. That’s not too bad. I mean the actual act of moving from one place to another. Whether it’s by cramming into a car and rolling at impossible speeds ...

Two days in wine country. Sounds great, right? It was, for the most part. Our rooms were the pinnace of luxury with every meal we ate only serving to enforce our belief that chefs here were masters of their craft, and after my massage, the state of relaxation...

So what if I’d fallen into a crevasse, getting myself into a dangerous situation I’d have made fun of someone else for? It was going to be ok. I had my purse, that bulge that had knocked the air from my lungs earlier. I could call for help and… After digging ...

I’d never liked snow. One of the small advantages of living in Houston had been that I’d rarely seen the stuff. The one time it had fallen while I’d lived there, people had been in their yards all day, building muddy snowmen and trying to sled down nearly non-...

I’d always had the strangest dreams, a symptom of being a writer, I thought. I spent my free time creating worlds where other people could escape, and while I slept, my brain extended the same courtesy to me. So, dreaming about a junkie, his mysterious cube, ...

Something warm and furry flopped onto my chest, and I squirmed beneath it. “No, Beau,” I mumbled. “Need more sleep.” Shouldn’t I be… concerned about something? A half-buried memory tickled the back of my mind, refusing to let oblivion claim me once more. Som...

I've done my best to include as many content warnings as I can here, but I can't guarantee that I've caught all of them. As always when reading a novel that covers heavier topics, please keep your mental health in mind! death of a loved one and grief refer...

I've done my best to include as many content warnings as I can here, but I can't guarantee that I've caught all of them. As always when reading a novel that covers heavier topics, please keep your mental health in mind! eugenics death of a loved one and gr...

I've done my best to include as many content warnings as I can here, but I can't guarantee that I've caught all of them. As always when reading a novel that covers heavier topics, please keep your mental health in mind! near death experiences forced to wat...

I've done my best to include as many content warnings as I can here, but I can't guarantee that I've caught all of them. As always when reading a novel that covers heavier topics, please keep your mental health in mind! Throughout: racism, slavery, dehumaniza...

I've done my best to include as many content warnings as I can here, but I can't guarantee that I've caught all of them. As always when reading a novel that covers heavier topics, please keep your mental health in mind! Throughout: flashbacks, dissociation T...

Kylorian As I waited outside the room where Raimie had been taking his meetings for the last two days, I fought to keep my foot from tapping or doing anything else that might show how agitated I was. I wasn’t scheduled to see him today— Or scheduled the wa...

Raimie   Kylorian had stopped talking, obviously waiting for my reply. Unfortunately, I was a little too lost in my own head to speak up immediately. “I knew there was something wrong with that man when we first met him!” Nylion said. He was pacing across ...