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An Audience

25 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

An Audience                 Everyone, especially children, knows that there are many different kinds of fey folk.                 But there are two types that are particularly prominent: tooth fairies, and their larger, older counterpart, bone fairie...

Restless Souls

18 Jun 2019 2 minute read 1 comment thestorychaser

Restless Souls                 After the accident, I thought the first spirit I saw was a hallucination, a side effect of the pain meds they had me on. It happened to be the lady from the room across the hall, who’d been hospitalized with a harsh, wr...

The Old Ones Return

18 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

The Old Ones Return                 The oceans held untold secrets, but the biggest and most well-known was that they held The Old Ones fast, imprisoned at the bottom. And they were receding for the first time since the war had ended. Some people too...

Forgotten Gods

12 Jun 2019 2 minute read 1 comment thestorychaser

Forgotten Gods                 Once, I was a being of unimaginable power. I was able to wield the very power of life, of creation, like a weapon. The oceans rose at a mere flick of my fingers, and storms stirred in my very blood. But that was so long...

Fly Fishing Out of a Dead End Life

12 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard

This river has at least three names, The White River (the most common name), the Black River (the old name), and the Stuck River (the most appropriate name considering where I’m fishing today). There are fish here, I can feel it. I’m fly fishing fo...

My Endlessness

4 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

My EndlessnessSomeday the heart will stopand your body will die.The universe will expand;another soul hits the sky.Scientists will look upin excitement and say:"We must add another zero!""The infinity of our universe!""We've only just begun to unders...

Thru This Passage - Lore

18 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr

    EMERALD SAGE   `This door,' whispers the Emerald Sage - `opens to a blackness-abyss - through its portal you may choose to go(?); for it be your first, or may-be your last, only through passing to know; for its the lingering, taint of your past-...

Aging, Conscience (Two in a Row)

18 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

AgingAging, when everything slows down except time.ConscienceIf you feel the need to confess, you've already paid.

Birds, Legit (two in a row)

5 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

BirdsHave you ever noticed that singing birds can be placed under any kind of music without ever sounding out of tune?LegitEvery legitimate movement stops being a legitimate movement right before it officially becomes a legitimate movement.

Fragile Gold

1 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

Fragile GoldThe beauty of fragile things like a sandcastle isn't the castle itself, as it will inevitably collapse within a day; it's about the memories made while making it, and the growth of the imagination. Both last forever and are precious; they...