[From the cutting room floor of my content edits. It’s great at waxing poetic, but did nothing to move the story along. So it goes.] Some time had passed, more than desired and less than expected. Jason had wandered to a bar he used to frequent, a familiar stomping ground to provide him with some […]
Read more "House on Fire"The rain stopped about an hour ago, but the smell of it lingered in the air. Sean had convinced his friends to go urban spelunking at the abandoned meat packing plant just outside of town, but they nearly backed out on count of the weather alone. Not so much for cowardice as much as safety; […]
Read more "Hide"Aidan woke up with a shake. His body twitched as he found himself restrained to a chair, tied at every extremity. In particular his hands and fingers were bound and covered, secured to the edge of the wooden armrests. The light of the candles in the room was dim, and there were no windows that […]
Read more "Demon in a Bottle"D&D 5e // Changeling // lvl 4 Barbarian, Path of the Beast // lvl 2 Druid, Circle of the Moon +++++ The group huddled close to the fire, not for the cold, but for fear of the dark. The woods were thick on this part of the road, and stories always milled about the beasts […]
Read more "Character concept snapshot: Grendel"It was a truly strange moment. Well, for Adam anyway. He stood there in the faint light of the restaurant coming through the window, the snow falling light and soft around him. He and his fiance, Juliet, had just left dinner with his family, celebrating his birthday. His parents, always asking after him, only wished […]
Read more "Omens"Stories and rumors always circulated about the Ashford place in the woods, a remote cabin the named family used as a summer home for the kinds of people that could afford such luxuries. Ritual murders, cult suicides, possessions, human sacrifice; whatever myth you could associate with a haunted house was there, and it was just […]
Read more "Ghost Story"Recently, I rebuilt my desktop PC, and in the process of doing so, I had the chance to backup my hard drive. To my complete shock and surprise, I found a couple of folders containing my early-ish writing. Nearly all of it is from around 2010-2013, roughly; short stories and some incomplete works. More than […]
Read more "Deep Cut with Commentary: By the Ravings of Lunatics"Vyth carefully removed the beaten and bloody armor piece from her upper body, and clutched the wound on her left side. The bleeding slowed already, but with every movement the wound ached. Chain and plate clattered onto the stonework floor of the watchtower as she began to make her way to the parapet, blood drops […]
Read more "Forthright Purpose and Ulterior Motive"Caed and Gregor strode into the edge of town in the late afternoon. There were no actual distinctions between most of the buildings, so it took some time to find the man who posted the contract. They found him near the market, where sellers were still peddling their wares, but slowing down to close shop […]
Read more "Echoes of the Past"“You all know why you’re here,” Royce said, his voice bringing everyone in the room to attention. “Each of you has your reasons, but we’re not here to discuss that. We have been presented with a problem. End Times level problem. All of you have been selected for your expertise in one facet or another […]
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Vox Tenebrarum Invictarum 