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Two children, one human, one hellkin, were awake in their cold box-shelter when Greatfather Langeven arrived. They asked, please, to be...

"Crap! We have a red tide."/ Shall I get the chocolate? "No it's not that time yet. I mean we have a dead zone rolling i...

A small child tries to grab Bribid to carry off what they thought was a cute little gnome. The parental was distracted by trying to hel...

Some children try to get Wraithvine, Birbid, and anyone traveling with them to come play. They had balloons that one of the kids' paren...

"They won't be changed or persuaded at all?"/ I'm afraid not, I'm so sorry. "We both knew it might come to this."/ ...

Is the difference between mad science and genius the success of the project? That’s what one researcher believes, for a new breakthroug...

“The Haters said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the Haters.” -- Deathshead419 ...

Conglomerated Meat Products Limited has a rather infamous reputation, beloved by customers for low prices and hated by nutritionists fo...

A family gives Wraithvine a large pouch of catnip seeds for hir to grow the plant, not only as a medicinal tea, but a treat for Lilbit....

A traveling hellkin was a highly skilled medic who knew how to make most medicines, use magic to heal, and was an accomplished surgeon....

They were born the only child in a family of immense wealth that had gained the ire of the local populace, and was taken from that plac...

If war is diplomacy by violence, then the currency of exchange is in the bodies of the youth. And so a General must make his bitter cal...

Below the waves is a shrine. Those who lay upon the alter join the sirens, gaining a new form and an enrapturing voice. And Arbin had b...

An apprentice healer saves a mysterious stranger from a fever. The thankful stranger gives the healer a box, promising that when the ti...

The child thought they were human, until they began to enter their teen years and certain things began to manifest that showed they wer...

Over the objections of his advisors, the youngest of seven princes makes friends with a warren of kobolds whose home was right under th...

"Greatfather Langeven is a childhood god. He only sees that which is good in the world, and so comes for the children who believe ...

Divine clues convince a town that a boy and his friends must complete a daring quest to avert world ending disaster. That may be true. ...

What’s better after a night barhopping than an impromptu car race on the rain-slick city streets? Why, doing so before seat-belt laws! ...

Well drat, Wraithvine’s unexpected island vacation will have to end sooner rather than later to help free the merfolk from having to ma...

I do not understand emotions, although my library has the definitions I do not truly feel them. Although, it is not written in my code,...

They were a hellkin, but their horns never grew in. They had the tail, the dark red skin, black fingernails, though not claws, but no h...

Why were you arrested? /"I severely overworked my employee to the point of collapse while not seeing to their needs." Wait......

They begged the old hellkin to teach them to fight. True the apprentices were no masters and could teach as well, but he had been the f...

There's a reason I'm called Patience. When someone calls me a 'teuf', I don't, normally, hurt them. And I will NEVER hurt a kid. Howeve...

Things have not been going well for Ludwig and U-634. An English depth charge knocked out the water pumps, the radio is on the fritz, p...

Every night for nine weeks a queen dreams of herself being surrounded by nine hooded figures she almost recognizes in the deepest sanct...

An airplane vanished over the Amazon rainforest, never to be seen again. The authorities did a perfunctory search, but came up empty, d...

What a coincidence! Prince Philip has found a young shepherd boy who looks exactly like him living in the countryside. Even better, the...

A painter has been gifted with a wondrous, dangerous power: Everything this artist draws upon changes to match the image at dusk. Paint...