In Ariadne’s village, if the air glittered like falling diamonds or smoke danced sideways, one knew the borders between realms were warping. That day, the sky didn’t simply shimmer; it pulsated with an urgency, swirling with violet and black End particles, signaling, perhaps, the throes of cosmic pain. Ariadne was twelve, with eyes like storm … Read more
In the years when the moon sang only melancholy tunes, the Coral Palace began its ghostly emergence. Once simply a myth whispered in drunken bluster down at Culver’s Harbor, it rose as an imposing silhouette under the opalescent light of a bloated full moon. Ezra had heard the tales from the salt-cracked lips of old … Read more
In a world built from cubes and dreams, beneath a square sun and a moon as pixelated as an old video game, there roamed an adventurer named Elara. She was draped in the finest diamond armor, a blue sheen glimmering with every step—gifts from the caves so deep that stories whispered of their forever darkness. … Read more
The lone adventurer—who for the sake of our story we shall call Finch—found the desert temple not so much by fate as by a unique intertwining of destiny and an oversight, having misplaced her compass three dunes back. It lay sprawling before her, emerging from the wind-swept sand like an old bedsheet tossed aside by … Read more