Taylor Amerson

I love writing short fiction, given the short time frame and limited characters. Keep in mind, everything I write is in the same world and the same time, just separated by geography. Far in the future, humanity has fallen back to the Iron Age.

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Taylor Amerson

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Writings

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The Glass Tower

Taylor Amerson

2 min read

I had heard of the tower my whole life. Legends, folktales, anecdotes. I had finally had enough.

The clues left in the folklore led me to one location and I marked the point on a map which remained largely blank as few cartographers had journeyed that way. The only place where two rivers meet and become one is in the valleys to the west, deep in the Appalachian mountains. The old hills which h...

Adventure

Fantasy

She’ll Understand

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

Paul watched as Mariana strode away from him in the hot, bright sunlight of early afternoon. He had always taken for granted that Gerry was who he was meant to marry, but he had never thought that someone else would come into his life and change it so drastically.

Not that he had ever had the time to think of romance during either his training or in his service later, but he had never even consid...

Adventure

Romance

The Fight

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

Kent dipped right, came back up with his fist and BAM! The guys chin snapped shut and his teeth came to with a click as his head flew back from the force of the blow. He hit the dirt in a heap and stayed there, down for the count, so to speak.

Kent stood back up and squared his back. Jonah came to him and took his hand in his firm grip to raise it over Kent’s head in a show of his pride in the wi...

Action

Adventure

Retribution

Taylor Amerson

2 min read

She found him.

Francis saw the man in the streets of Sta-Col, minding his own business as he went about his life as though everything was normal. It was not normal.

For the past five years, seven months, three days, and fourteen hours, Francis had been looking for him, the man whose face was burned into her mind. Even as she passed him in the street of this strange town, she nearly fell apart as...

Fantasy

Drama

Boiling Blood

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

“Nothing here is sacred, nothing is safe.”

The man approached the group of pious monks and gave them this warning. They quickly exchanged glances and smiled to one another. The chief among them stepped toward the man and addressed him “If it is God’s will that we are to be blotted out, then so be it.”

“You apparently don’t understand; they are not coming to just kill you, they are coming to dese...

Adventure

Fantasy

Old Girl

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

Things were different when I was young. In some ways better, but in some ways worse. There was a time when The People rode by in great metal things, pumping melodious sounds out of the openings, but that was long ago. I could see it happening, slowly at first.

Gradually, fewer and fewer of The People rode by and fewer of my descendants were chopped down. I still dropped my acorns like I always...

Fantasy

Drama

By Appearances

Taylor Amerson

2 min read

“She’s gone!” Melissa called down the stairs to the small group gathered there. They had been playing Flotsam when she went to check on Sammie. Those gathered around the Flotsam table abandoned their posts and raced up the stairs to the bedroom and confirmed the news with their own eyes. Gerald took her straw doll in his hands and turned it over gently, examining it for tears or stains which co...

Fantasy

Crime

Catharsis

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

Daniel moved with precision, punching and pounding as he worked. His job was often violent, but he loved it. It was always a cathartic day when he got to use his fists. He began to sweat as he worked, continually punching and beating and slapping.

Gradually, the clay came to the correct texture and he picked it up and slammed it down onto the center of the flat disk in front of him. He sat and s...

Fantasy

Action

The Tapestry

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

The stag walked through the brush, bending the branches as it went under them with his antlers. I was tempted to shoot him, but I was not in need at that point, and his majesty would be put to waste. I know not the hierarchy of deer or wild animals, but he was a king among his order.

He stopped briefly, only a couple meters from where I sat concealed in the bushes, and stripped the leaves off of...

Adventure

Fantasy

The Culmination of it All

Taylor Amerson

1 min read

Paul gave chase. He had always been faster than Absolom, but Absolom had a head start as Paul was held up by the fray of people fighting. Roman followed him, as well as Gerry. The final glimpse allowed him to see Dravis holding back the Baaman soldiers to allow the other rangers to give chase.

A horse galloped out of the alleyway as they entered, and the trio of rangers jumped onto the remainin...

Adventure

Fantasy