“We’ll have rain soon” said the old man rocking on the storefront porch.

The farmer in torn clothing and covered in dirt leaving the store shook his head in dismay. There hadn’t been enough rain for crops in a year and a half. The Dust Bowl as the papers called it had been in full swing. Hardly worth planting and definitely not worth staying, but with no money and nowhere to go the farmer bided ...

I couldn’t believe it! A piano right on the edge of the tide where I take my morning walks. I hadn’t played since high school, but I couldn’t resist shaking off the rust in this unusual settings. I love my 5am walks on this beach. Alone with the sounds of the ocean-at least I though I was alone. As I struggled through playing “Clocks” by Coldplay a burst of sand erupted around me and the piano and...

“Well um I reckon this is the thing that’s been killing your chickens.” The exterminator said casually holding a 5 foot long four legged scale creature.

“But Mr what is it?!?” The frightened new mother asked.

“Ummm well mam I’m gonna level with you….ive been doing pest control for farms in this area for 35 years and I ain’t never run across nothin like this…it’s got the body of dog and the scal...

“Oh where the river flows and the drinks are cold…the wind will blow and tonight we’ll go to the O’l Influunt Tavern” the bartender quietly sung to himself.

The empty bar reverberating his whispered tune. The bar on the water had not had visitors since the spring up above was dammed off by the Oman empire. There were regulars for a while who still came. However folks left the town in search of wo...

“22nd day of rain with no break, how’s a man suppose to farm like this.” Everett sat at his table in his new to him small shack he inherited from his grandfather.

After 15 years working as a CPA for a large legal firm Everett had made the leap from desk jockey to amateur farmer and right about now he was regretting every bit of that decision. He had just planted organic parsnips a month ago but h...

Anchored, witty, and ambitious.

Anchored: Kalliope’s composure takes after her father. Even keeled in the face of danger and her mind racing through the logical solution. Emotion isn’t removed from her personality by any stretch but instead is tied closely with her ability to reason. For better or worse this is her lens through which the world is viewed.

Witty: Not the one to start the teasing b...

Three little pigs were building there houses. Two wanted to be done quickly in order to go about relaxing and enjoying their day. The first built his house out of hay, the second out of sticks, and the third spent many days carefully constructing a house out of brick and mortar.

Along came the big bad wolf who huffed and puffed and quickly blew in the house of hay and ate the little pig up but s...

I had been on the hunt for two years at this point. Last known location was Singapore but the trail ran cold until I got word from HQ that evidence had arisen in Florida. By evidence I mean bodies of deceased men and women in their early twenties who died of “natural causes”.

Clearly it was immature Niadent out of control. Our department had not run into this before. See Niadents typically are b...

Up the stairs and turn right out the door. I was so turned around as to where I was in this city. I was it to be morning when I was leaving my one night stands’ cellar apartment under a busy city street. To my surprise it was still dark and the street was bustling-I aware we had come back here around 3am and slept for sometime before I headed out but my phone has been dead for hours so I have no w...

In a land full of mystical creatures there are many greater things to fear. However personal experience and wounds that don’t fully heal can make the even regular encounters traumatic. Wolves.

As a young girl Kalliope was side saddled riding through the forest with her father when they were suddenly ambushed by a starving pack of wolves. Her father calm and collected shushed Kalliope and she sta...