Brent Streeter
The Offering
The autumn wind blew through the empty village before me, sweeping with them leaves of crimson and orange. In the fields beyond, its...
Mystery World
Fraser du Toit
- Aug 1
- 4 min
The Experiment
I used to be a sailor. Trained and tested in the early days of the great war, I was one of the best. Neither torpedoes nor sabotage could...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 25
- 4 min
I woke up dead
I awoke to an inky black nothingness inside a claustrophobic space. My breath came as a gruff rasp, my lungs stiff as I drew in the shaky...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 24
- 4 min
Snowfall
The first snow of winter was settling in as I trudged through the white landscape. My boots crunched the fresh powder beneath my feet,...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 23
- 4 min
Modified
I joined Malone’s crew for the free mods. When you’re born in the lower slums of a hive city, you don’t have many options for...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 22
- 3 min
I was lost
I was lost. Not in the usual way, because I knew exactly where I was, but in a spiritual sense. My life wasn’t in ruins, I had a loving...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 21
- 4 min
Tombstone
A forest stretched out before me, shrouded in oppressive darkness. The silence was tangible, and it felt as if the forest itself was...
Chris Higginson
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Auditors of the Gods
They shuffled down meandering corridors lined with fetid shelves, not touched in decades, their deeply purple robes dragging in the dust...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 19
- 5 min
The Shard
It started with a spark as flint struck steel. The oil-ragged torch flared to life, the flames devouring it like a starving beast. The...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 18
- 4 min
Warm Bones
The icy gales whipped and howled, pelting me with snow and ice while I desperately clung to the traveling cloak I wore. Even that small...
Louis Roux
- Jul 17
- 3 min
Hell
In the end, he was left with only two choices. The hell he knew, and the hell he didn’t. It was clear to him that he would never get out,...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 16
- 4 min
The Protégé
I grew up in a humble village off the coast of a vast ocean. From the moment of my birth, those in the village believed that I was...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 15
- 3 min
Formulaic Life
The formula was precise, and adherence would have to be strict in order to achieve the desired results. Any slight variation in timing...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 14
- 3 min
Train's a coming
“Train’s a coming,” I said to the man lying on the tracks. He strained against the ropes tightly bound around his limbs. The writhing...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 13
- 4 min
Shadows of Dawn
Dawn broke, the sun crested over the horizon, setting the sky awash in soft pinks, yellows and blues. The farmstead was quiet in the...
Louis Roux
- Jul 12
- 4 min
The Emerald Scarabs
Everyone at the museum was very happy with their new acquisition, as were several government functionaries and business leaders. A large...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 11
- 4 min
Bayou Boogie
Jonah Jericho sat humming a senseless ditty as he labored in the morning sun. His hands sticky from the hot glue he smeared onto the...
Louis Roux
- Jul 10
- 4 min
Song of the Forest
By the time the family got to the campsite, Bernard was already exhausted. The children had been unmanageable all the way out to the...
Brent Streeter
- Jul 9
- 4 min
Rush
I had known from the moment I saw it that I was destined to heed its call. The man came to our village when I was but a young boy. The...
Fraser du Toit
- Jul 8
- 3 min
I met the Easter Bunny
I met the Easter Bunny on my sixth birthday. None of the friends my parents had gathered for me saw it, but I recall it vividly. Dozens...
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