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♡ Doorkeep ♡

With half-closed eyes I gaze along the path. A path of ornate stone or simple gravel, of wooden slats, a cobbled street beside the rows of trees. Cherry trees and oak in autumn, the high pines of the mountains, the sweet perfume of spring, yellow deciduous and the verdant shock of midsummer beneath
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✯ Burn Order ✯

I try my best to have a quiet evening before a job. Call it a ritual: I watch the sunset while sipping from a hot mug of black coffee that I spiked with rum or whiskey, today was rum, and I take my time with a cigarette. It’s practical, of course, I’ll need to be calm and focused for the next fe
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❀ Willowilts ❀

Index – Chapters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2


Chapter 1↩

He was entranced. The flurry of movement on the screen. The rhythm of hands on the keys. A new enemy appears: offensive rotation, 1, 2, wait – a debuff. Physical type, cleanse it. Hit-points dropped, shield and heal. Back to rotatio
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✾ Mortal World's Torment ✾

Index – Chapters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2


Chapter 1↩

The silence purred like the slumber of a great fanged beast. The distant chorus of automobiles and the warbled voice of an air-conditioner sang tunelessly into the dark. Below, one dying lightpost among a half-dozen others cast it’s
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♧ The Burnished Branding of Bull Laba ♧

Index – Chapters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15


Chapter 1↩

The streets of Kruk Pride throng with orcs. Browns and greens of sweat-coated skin gl
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✯ Post Hoc ✯


I’m what they call a late-adopter. I remember learning once that new technologies spread through the market in an “s-curve”, with a slow rate of early adopters, then a boom when it hits mainstream, and finally a drip-feed of the unaware, hesitant, and cynical. I’d say I’m a little of all
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♧ Tomb on The Helmet ♧

At first I thought it must be a joke. I’ll play along to see how far it goes, but I know it will only be a matter of time until someone cracks. We'll all get a good laugh, my friends will call me gullible, but ultimately: no harm, no foul. When Barry and I got sent to pick up supplies at Mountain
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♪ Perfect Crime ♪

Index – Chapters
Someone is missing
But there is no information
And even Ms. Kashka has secrets
So when there's a break in the case
Despite translations and miss-translations
There will be peace on Rattushk
For in the land of Sneska
Lies the Truth


Chapter 1 – Someone is missing V
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✾ Flamethrowers ✾

On a frigid morning in January, onlookers watched from bumper-to-bumper traffic as a pedestrian pulled out a flamethrower. Instead of waddling and sliding along like everyone else, the man reached into his huge backpack and extracted a metal tube, which began to spew fire onto the ground beneath him
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❈ Companionship ❈

Index – Chapters
The Road
The Town
The Crossroad
The Monastery


Part 1 – The Road ↩

Dawn spilled into the valley. Above the chorus of birds, the raging waterfalls, and the growl of the wind, there was a bare stone bluff facing out into the emptiness. Upon the bluff sat a man. He
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