Fantasy Stories

  • Shifting Times

    Ellis dabbed at his nose with his sleeve. It came away with small blotches of blood. He pulled his tattered back pack from his shoulder and chucked it against the metal fence just a few yards off to his left. The bag rebounded off the fence and slid in the dirt. Ellis spared a hateful glance behind him. Unconsciously his hands made a fist. He threw a punch at the face of an imaginary individual and screamed in anger. “Next time Reese you will be the one bleeding.” Ellis’ anger was subsiding and the pain of the fight was coming…

  • Raphael

    The rubble beneath me vibrated as another explosion went off a few streets over. Glass from hundreds of windows shattered and fell like glittering rain drops. My breaths came in short gasps as I hunched doubled over on hands and knees in the middle of the remnants of a downtown street. At least two or three broken ribs I thought. I lifted my gaze just enough to see dozens of mangled and bloody bodies littering the street before me. This was not like the fairy tales written in books. This was the reality of magic and monsters, of hero’s and…

  • The Lighthouse

    “The light can never go out,” explained the old lighthouse operator. “Ships don’t need us. Haven’t in quite some time. It’s the people here on land who’ll suffer if that light ever goes out.” Jakar watched with pinched eyes as the old man wet his lips with another beer. “Those lights were built to never go out. I don’t think anyone has ever seem them dark.” Jakar said. The old man wiped his mouth the back of his forearm. “When I was I lad I saw it. Pitch black it was.” He shook his head and brought the beer up to…

  • What a Lovely Way to Burn

    Summer, fall, winter, spring, it does not matter the season, the weather or the the location, we all will burn. Some of us will burn brighter, some lighter. Some of us burn at night, alone in a room with the door closed and headphones on. Some of us burn during the day in a room filled with eyes taking in our every movement. The ways in which some of us burn is not whats in question. Do you burn? That is the question. The streets and alleys and roads and paths and trails are becoming crowded with people searching. Searching…

  • Sometimes We Have to Let go

    The voice echoed in my mind “,but sometimes we have to let go.” Not me I thought. Everyone can let go but me. I turned my face upward. Snow kissed my cheeks and forehead and for a moment I forgot where I was, what I was doing. The feelings inside me reduced from a boil to a simmer. I closed my eyes and let the cold embrace me. Icy tendrils snaked their way up my arms and between the buttons on my shirt. I shivered. Urgency drew my eyes open and the cold kept them that way. All I could…

  • The First Tree Grove

    Marxen Holt opened his eyes and focused on the last tendrils of his dream. His hands found the notepad next to his bed and he began to write down all he remembered. There had been boxes like those found in banks. Except on the front of each plate were a name and a photograph. Many faces had been grayed out while just a handful remained lit and vibrant. These were the ones he paid attention to. That was his job. To find people. He gazed down at the names he had written; William Krietz, Andrew Davis, Samuel White, and Aleena…

  • Musical Trance

    Benji walked into his normal coffee shop and regretted it. Somewhere between studying and work he forgot the date. It was now apparent. It was the third of June. On the third of every month his little hole in the wall coffee shop hosted live bands. He hated it. He hated it because a live band meant live people and live people was a good enough reason to  hate anything. He turned on his heel to walk out but before he took his first step he stopped. Through the throng of people, standing on stage at the far end of the…

  • Establishing Habits

    It is a common belief that a habit can be established in 21 days. This idea seems to have stemmed from a self-help book published in the 1970’s called “Psycho-Cybernetics” and then reinforced by a plethora of advice columns. This number isn’t completely accurate according to psychologist Jeremy Dean, writer of “Making Habits, Breaking Habits.” With the start of a brand new year and the inevitable new years resolutions, we should arm ourselves with accurate information on implementing or destroying habits. In his novel, Dean cites a study conducted at the University College London and states, “The simple answer is that,…