‘Look — OUCH — I’m just trying to — OW — get my tablecloth back!’ A flurry of feathers, hubbub of honking, and plethora of pecks accompanied my plea. The…
‘Ouch!’ I yelped and staggered as tiny claws dug into my bare feet. A sinuous, feathered little lizard with tiny wings chirped at me and bounded away with all the…
He collapsed, exhausted, in a spray of dirt and mulch. He’d run too long and too hard through the Wastes, past monsters with too many teeth and watchers with too…
This post was originally supporter-only, posted March 2020. The call was for prompts for spells, which I would write microfictions for. 5 people commented on The Spell Exchange and three…
She hit the ground hard, knees bleeding, arms scraped, wings askew. Every bone ached as she got to her feet. She looked at the high cliff perch through the broken…
Birdsong. It penetrated the dream, lilting and bright. He looked around at the rolling dunes of dreamsand beneath a purple-and-silver sky. It was time to return. He followed the song,…
‘And you think I can do it?’ she said, crossing her arms and folding her wings more tightly around her. Below her feet, the cliff fell away to mist and…
It started slowly, as most Awakenings do. She would hum as she brushed her sisters hair, and sparks would fly from the brush. She would whistle to her hounds, who…
He hurried home across the park, hands thrust deep into his pockets. The moon was too sickly to light his path, leaving the lake a looming void. ‘Quack.’ The sound…
There is a boy who can read the birds. He throws crumbs to the town pigeons and in the pattern of their pecking, sees illness coming to his school. He…