An alchemist rushes to complete an elixir of immortality to meet the demands of his dying benefactor.
"Once I had completed the formula, perfected this magnum opus, I would be near equal to the divine Hermes Trismegistus himself."
May 2025
A farmer encounters a knight who seeks to slay the mythical Basilisk.
"Why look for something if looking upon it would doom you?”
Dec. 2024
A strange book of dubious origin containing a collection of rhymes and poems that don't really seem appropriate for children, despite the name.
“And with a chop! he fell away.”
Dec. 2024
A boy journeys into a cursed forest to hunt for food in a blizzard.
"Anyone with sense knew to stay away from the Illskógr, for not a single person who entered the woods had ever returned."
Mar. 2024
A mad scientist invents a time machine, but is too anxious to use it.
(Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest!)
"Could I have not realized where the time had gone until I was on my deathbed, and only then found the courage to step into the machine?"
May 2023
A mysterious inspector investigates a Northern English port town that has an unnaturally cold wind at night.
“Out a’ place? Nay, of course not. Everything’s always the same ‘ere in Durwick.”
Sep. 2022