17 year old Jaxon Jacobsen watched colors curve through the sky.

“C’mon Jax, Mrs. Ketterly says a pot of gold is always hidden at the end of a rainbow!” Billy bounced up and down with excitement on the dirt packed trail. Jaxon smiled at his young cousin but groaned inwardly. The two had been rainbow hunting for the last hour and a half, and Jax was entertaining thoughts of dissuading Billy of s...

Hurtling down the interstate at 75 miles per hour in a black minivan, my family is headed to grandma’s house. My dad is driving, my mother riding shotgun, my brother and I sitting in the two middle seats, and my two sisters in the very back. My youngest sister, ever the trouble maker slyly grins and lets loose. The stench filled the van, as the back car seat rumbled. My brother groaned, my secon...

I slide the bag across the table, the hooded stranger opposite me peers inside.

“Where the hell did you find this?!” He rasps in a deep voice.

I shifted uncomfortably glancing around the dirty tavern, far to nice for my taste, “I don’t think I’m supposed to tell, I don’t even know what it is.”

“Good for you, perhaps,” the stranger said, “I suppose you cannot inform me as to who gifted you t...

Dorian glanced around the spacious tent, meeting eyes with the other generals and captains sitting around the oak table bearing a generous map of the region. The generals murmured among themselves, though Dorian kept his peace.

“We are incapacitated, Velkaroth surrounds us,” muttered General Tharek, pale and shaken, to Captain Corven Malrick grim and brooding.

In swept High General Galadri...

An electric buzz reverberated above Suri’s head. She stood in a shallow lake of sorts with no land in sight, just listening. The water lapped at her bare calves, a deadly force leaping and dancing in the encircling clouds. Flash! Suri felt the lightning touch her skin with a note almost too high to hear. Spinning Suri dipped her fingers into the warm water pushing the lightning into it, causing ...

Kaelith crested the final hill and froze, Lyra, and Feylin hurrying behind. Mist, a field of mist lie in front of Kaelith. ‘So this is it,’Kaelith thought, this is how I die. A hoard of wordlings behind and mist ahead.

Feylin charged onward anyway heedless of the mist only seeing the protection of the neverglade beyond. The mist came alive, a figure forming from the thick fog. Mist, then a w...

I died today. I could still feel the cold touch of the steel under my chin. Hot blood dripping onto my open eye from the body hanging above. Odd, I felt alive though I new I was dead. That thing had killed me, me and my friend. The shrouded figure was cloaked in a wispy material as if it was incorporeal, tall, long, and bony. It hunched over my dead body sucking at the blood that still oozed from ...