This is an incomplete piece for the prompt "Unusual Joy," but I'm not sure I'm satisfied with it yet. What do you guys think? *** The smooth jazz music playi...

She walked the barren hilltops like a ghost of the old world, her pale skirts billowing around her as the remnants of a proud banner, whispering of a defeat ...

The moon was bright and clear, the air dark and chill. Everything had at least two adjectives, if not more, and that usually meant the night would be a porte...

I had a dream about the zombie apocalypse, 100% based on the exercise app I use when I go running, called Zombies, Run! by Six to Start. Definitely worth it....

The smells of dust and sunlight were thick in the air. Stepping silently, the girl crossed the open floor and kept a sharp eye on the two doors before her - ...

After watching this video several times, I had a thought. An intriguing thought. I asked myself - "How would history have changed if an American plague had d...

"What do you mean you don't know where we are?" His voice was low and mostly calm, but there was something of tension in his tone. "I mean exactly what I sai...

Glittering lights in the darkness. The twinkle of the distant ones, the steady shine of the nearer. And between, behind, before, and beside them, spires and ...

This is based on a nightmare I had last week. I was legitimately freaked out by this, and needed to be awake and active for an hour before I felt safe going ...

My brain has been asking only one question ever since I finished reading Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. That question is this: What if sci-fi fighter pilots, ...

A friend inspired this by accident, by forgetting to include the name of a character's hometown in a list where everyone else had a hometown. Merging had bee...

Some of you Inklings, artists I'm sure, are familiar with "Inktober," during which the challenge is to draw and ink a piece of art every day. There's even an...

The night was thick. Too warm, too muggy, too loud with the buzzing of a thousand insects and the song of hundred crickets. She felt almost like she might cu...

Sam stared through the thick, cold transparisteel window and the endless darkness beyond, pierced at random intervals by distant stars and the casual winking...

A while back, I decided I really wanted to keep a Commonplace Book of my own. For those of you that aren't familiar with the phrase, a Commonplace Book is an...

Do you remember that scene from a while back, where Charlie the Thief was caught mid-thievery? Well, I was thinking about that in light of the new setting I'...