For all those high fantasy characters living in an urban fantasy world
Keith got woken up at exactly midnight by some sound or another in his bedroom and he was immediately up, standing next to the bed, the baseball bat he kept underneath already in his hands. “Don’t be afraid!” said a voice. “For I am the ghost-” Keith swung the baseball bat in the direction ofContinue reading “Three Ghosts on Christmas Eve”
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“It could be worse.” It was Felix’s favorite thing to say. And he said it a lot. What was even weirder was, he seemed to always mean it. Like the time the two of them had been chased through four separate towns by palace guards. At first they had been on horses, at least, butContinue reading “Through a Portal”
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I don’t usually write about internet drama because a) that’s not really what I do here and b) I’m always paranoid about attracting the wrong sort of attention. I’m just a little guy, over here in my corner writing up my weird stories and random thoughts about popular culture, I don’t need any heat. ButContinue reading “I Am Not Immune to Propaganda”
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Aspen Village spread out before them. The same collection of wood and thatch homes, pubs, shops, and little people yelling at each other that they had seen over and over and over on their journey. This one was important. The horde was coming. On their backs. The entire way across the Panaplor Fields and throughContinue reading “ABL: Always Be Looting”
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The Bloodiest Girls’ Night “Absolutely not.” It’s what Shaun had said to Honey, roughly an hour ago. Specifically, they were absolutely not taking the hunter back to the apartment they were technically, sort-of, not really renting from a dead woman named Shirley Hagle. Strictly speaking Shirley was still renting the apartment from the Happy HomesContinue reading “Nature, Nurture”
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Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You The year is 1981 and Billy Squier has had exactly two Billboard hits, and only one has survived into the twentieth-century: “The Stroke.” Which, while an absolute banger, includes lines like ‘keep your contributions by your side,’ and ‘work your way right into my face.’ Like,Continue reading “Some Thoughts On Christmas Songs”
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Outside the Sundae Fundae The thing about vampires and vampire hunters is they both believed themselves to be better hunters than they were. The vampires were first, walking down the street in a raucous and outrageously dressed group of four. Women out on a girl’s night, looking to make bad decisions. Except all of theirContinue reading “The Bloodiest Girls’ Night”
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The Vows “…you will always be my best friend.” Holly dabbed at her eyes as they welled up with her tears. She wasn’t particularly close with her cousin, actually hadn’t seen Theresa in close to ten years, and didn’t know she was capable of writing something so simple and yet so moving. I’m no goodContinue reading “Scenes From the Worst Wedding You’ve Ever Been To”
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There were more willows behind the first one, seven in all, all grouped together in a little culvert carved out of the riverbank. While the water raced in the middle of the river, here just a few inches of it sailed in leisure. One tree stood deeper in the river than the others, the waterContinue reading “Crossing the River”
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When she pulled the van back in front of the big house the lights were still on, even though it was almost one in the morning. It would be Eddie in there waiting for her, she just knew it. Eddie wasn’t really as bad as she made herself out to be, but Sally’d rather discussContinue reading “Sally and Slick Eddie”
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