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Weekly Contest #366
Taverns, the favorite establishment of any traveler. Usually attached to an inn, they had everything a weary wanderer could hope for; a bed, food, drink and talk if they wanted it. Sometimes a game of knuckle bones or merchants selling unusual wares were found around the bar or at the wood tables. Every town was bound to have at least one, and Tolm was no exception. The Last Unicorn had a good reputation. Ealdian had heard that there had only been two stabbings this year, and...
Weekly Contest #361
Jing-a-ling! Landon used his back to open the café door, a large coffee in each hand and late afternoon light glancing off the shining brass frames of his aviators as he exited the building. He set one of the coffees on the roof of his partner’s cruiser, freeing a hand to pull open the passenger door. Sliding into his seat, he grabbed the coffee once again and slid it into the cupholder by the driver. He pulled the sun visor down, the setting sun’s orange rays piercing his eyes through the windshield. Each day it set a bit earlier as summer ...
Weekly Contest #359
Tennis shoes struck the ground as papers fluttered away from Avalon’s hands, the corridor racing by as he rushed to meet fate. Another page was lost, but it was inconsequential. It served no purpose if he was late anyway. A mere record of his genius made manifest. The real data was in his mind, as it always would be to keep it from those who would steal his dreams. West 24C, where was it? Avalon skidded around a corner, hopping on one foot as he nearly overbalanced. A few more pages escaped his custody, but he snatched one back an...
Weekly Contest #357
Afternoon sunlight glittered with motes of dust as it gilded the walls of the king’s keep, the largest beam illuminating the carved wooden throne in which King Griffith sat. Its armrests were the carved faces of great bears, and the wings of oaken eagles made the back, framing the king as he looked upon the young man who sought his audience. “And you are certain of this?” King Griffith asked, his expression grave. “Without a doubt your highness,” the young man said, his gray eyes full of pride for his discovery, “I saw ...
Weekly Contest #356
“Wait- please!” Blackbird said, reaching out to Yrsa, but she was already struggling to her feet and backing away.“Stay back!” she said. “Don’ get near me!”Bird’s fear raced through him. She would run, he’d lose her friendship, be alone again. Could he blame her? He knew what it was she saw. Bones that were charred and dark, without flesh or sinew, alive as it should never have been. A deep red glow within the cranium shone through his eye sockets. An endless grin of ruined filth.A monster.Without a proper face, there was no expression he co...
Weekly Contest #355
Gravel crunched under Ealdian’s boots as he walked along the road, carts rattling as they passed him and hooves clopping as horses went by. Spring was at hand, and the air was warming in the lands where winter had less of a hold. A few birds were returning from the southeast of the continent, and the days were more gold than gray when it was not drizzling with vernal rains. Since his brief visit to Tolmacht, and subsequent death there, new horizons were what Ealdian had longed for. A place where no one knew his name, face, or curse. A chanc...
Weekly Contest #354
The Last Unicorn. An interesting name for a tavern and inn, but certainly one to be remembered. Perhaps it was the warm wood walls that rose from the stone foundation, carved with intricate patterns of swirling vines that drew Blackbird’s eye, or it could be the deep, forest green shingles that dripped over the roof and awnings like ruffled leaves that lured him to its doorstep, frosted with bright snow. The light inside was a welcoming gold, and a sign mounted over the door swung in the wind. Upon it was painted a unicorn, a cloven hoof lif...
Weekly Contest #353
Ewan felt the bumpy texture of his basketball he dribbled against the tips of his fingers. Nimbly they caught his hand before he sent it again to the ground. The sound of it colliding with the sidewalk marked the tempo of his steps. Even after a decade, he and his best friend still shared their tradition of walking home together. “I’m telling you, you should try out,” Damon said. “You would be put on the team just like that!” He snapped his fingers. “I dunno,” Ewan said, not missing a beat as his b...
Weekly Contest #352
TW: Blood, blood consumption (vampirism) (not sure if this counts as gore) The sun was visible, glinting off of the snow as Commander Pyrope entered the palace. It stung his eyes, but the visor of his helmet blocked most of it from reaching him, though it also hindered his sight of the graceful arches and swirling pillars of the home of Pyrope’s lord. The palace gleamed in the light; the white marble walls veined with gold a testament to the prosperity of the Kingdom of the Eternal Sovereign. Coniferous trees dusted with frost lin...
Weekly Contest #350
The handcuffs were brittle, flimsy steel links connecting Marcus’ wrists. It would take little effort to just pull them apart and snap the frail metal chain. He didn’t. White painted cinderblocks surrounded him, aside from the one-way mirror across the room. A steel door was next to it. His anxious hands and cuffed wrists rested on the table in front of Marcus. This too was nothing special; sturdy, clean, and the only interesting aspect were a few scratches indicating the table had seen better days. There was one other chair in addition to ...
Weekly Contest #348
The murmur of voices fell silent as I entered the Tribunal Arena. I kept my gaze on the banners of sun, moon and star fluttering in the wind, striving to ignore the many eyes that tracked my steps to the star set in the floor. It shone for a moment as my hoof clopped upon it, and it levitated as a platform to be level with the first row of the stands so that all may see my shackled wrists, pinned wings, and chained feet. Remorse filled me as I saw their eyes. They would remember my sister in chains. Even after, when she was herself, the mem...
Weekly Contest #343
- Mentions of death There is no future. Some say one’s last moments alive are the longest moments of their life. You would think that untrue perhaps, but as I stand here with dragonfire blazing a path towards me, I assure you the feeling is quite real. As is the part of seeing your life flash before your eyes. Maybe it is because I want to think of happier times, rather than the incomprehensibility of death. The earliest thing I remember is how badly I wanted a cookie. My father had just made them, and my ti...
Weekly Contest #342
Of Gwendolyn & EaldianBy Katrina Craig2-16-2026 Ealdian parried his opponent’s blade, the steel shining in the moonlight as the world dreamed. He stabbed forward, and his opponent twisted aside his blade with her own. He felt a goofy grin on his face, exhilarated at being foiled. “Excellent form! You’ve been practicing.” Gwendolyn laughed, a laugh he found more beautiful than the song of the nightingale. “That I have, have at thee!” They sparred a few minutes more before taking a seat beneath one of the b...
Weekly Contest #341
Ardûnn was much the same as it had been five hundred years earlier. All of the wooden buildings were new of course, but the roads wound through the lanes the same way they always had, and the stone keep was little changed, save for it looked more weathered and flew a new coat of arms descended from the one known to Ealdian. Beyond the town limits, the land rolled away into the west with hills and meadows, and in the north loomed the eaves of the great forest that spanned to the realm of the astral fae in the mountain valleys many distant mil...
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