After weeks of grueling travel, the wicked witch’s towering house appeared through the fog of the rocky forest surrounding me. The piercing echo of the caws of crows rang through my ears as I took a step forward. A perfect alarm system set in place.

Shit.

My fear became the engine for my legs to run across the jagged rocks. I gripped the obsidian hilt of my dagger and dodged the strikes of sev...

As I creeped up to the towering stone walls blocking access to the ocean, I smiled at the soft snores echoing from the guard passed out in his chair. The moon was full and the sky was glittered with stars. After nearly a year of training, it was finally time to scale this wall to find out the truth about the ocean.

**The government called it terrifying and claimed it prohibited for as long a...