2020-11-26 16:32
Jalisco tugged his sleeves. His cufflinks flashed in the setting sun. Chamber music lilted neath the vaulted pergola, and the scent of wine and cut cypress pervaded the place. Jalisco sniffe… Read More
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2020-10-31 20:43
Something crashed in the night.Eloise scowled. Half past two in the morning. Another crash, followed by several echoing clangs, like a kettle dropped down steps. Then a muffled rumble of rau… Read More
2020-10-05 22:56
On the cobbled gatepost, there sat a skull.A human skull, set in a divot midst the stones. Brown, crusty. A fresh wreath of floral daisy pixies, their heads torn off, crowned its sun-dried p… Read More
2020-03-17 02:31
At the hearth, there sat a man weeping. A man with a farmer's brown hide and the grey-green eyes of a Southerner. He sat hunched, wrung a stone-bead crucifix in his broad and shaking hands… Read More
2020-03-07 23:44
A coin clattered on the polished bartop. A stool scraped. A pair of bandaged palms clasped beside."What's this?" said the barback. She plucked up the coin, turned it round. It was old… Read More
2020-02-19 21:15
On the path, before the yawning wood, there stood a sign.A crooked, nailed-together affair assembled from three planks and a rotting post. Covered in the crusty lime of lichen and… Read More
2020-02-05 01:48
Out on the moor, there stood a red deer.A fuzzy-antlered buck. It lifted its head, surveyed the rippling moor. Veritable waves of purple heather and golden wheatgrass under a broad cathedra… Read More
2020-01-21 21:57
Green waves beat over the dinghy's pointed prow.Nils raised a hand for the sting of salt, hunched bobbing at the little boat's forward bench. Ahead, over a rolling field of choppy emerald, s… Read More
2019-12-18 20:40
"Ugo."Ugo, sprawled in the gutter, flinched. A rent in his purple lips split, oozed as he moaned through red-cored stumps of freshly-broken teeth. He covered his face with cut-hatched hands… Read More
2019-12-18 16:15
The clock struck midnight. It rang flat in the darkened cottage. Tired, arhythmic. Shockingly loud in the still night.On the fourth strike, something stirred. In a nest of woolens, curled cl… Read More
2019-12-18 16:13
A breath went through the pines. Uncounted millions of gold-green needles quavered, heaved; pressed by a mild and resinous sigh. The air thickened, yellowed with cloying dust shed from bough… Read More
2019-12-18 16:00
Hawthorn had nodded off. The book on his knee, a treatise on early Prolish cave markings, had acted as an effective sedative. Between it and the pressing warmth of the fire, the scholar was… Read More
2019-12-05 20:55
The appraiser sat with a huff, laced his thick fingers atop the leather-topped desk. "Good morning, Master Tuck," he said, moustache rippling.Across, there sat two cutters in scuff… Read More
2019-11-26 20:18
The lamp went first.A cracked and swinging oil lamp, clasped in the thin hand of a stumbling girl. Her breath came quick, quavering; hushed for fear. Her dirty turnshoes scuffed over the rou… Read More
2019-10-02 01:17
Just outside the lamplight, there sat a man in grey. An impassive gaze, sconced neath the lip of a bowler hat. Bright specks in felted dark, and a curled lip below. "Describe… Read More
2019-08-15 20:43
They crept through an autumn wood. Two men in green coats and stalker's caps tugged over black hair. One young, the other old, bearded. They carried lever guns in the crooks of their sleeves… Read More
2019-07-31 18:41
They crouched midst broad tuffets of musty earth. Grassy-topped knolls, like turrets of root and dirt carved by floodwater. No water flowed among them now, however. Only a thick and swirling… Read More
2019-07-24 23:46
On a snowy rise, in a hollow log, under a holey quilt, there squatted a pair of mice. Mice in grey woolens and white pickelhauben, wrapped in scarves and thick socks for their pink, sharp to… Read More
2019-07-01 00:03
He lay in a trough of earth. A pale, bruised young man; couched on a bed of dry pine boughs and waxy cones. He had been stripped down to his breeches and undershirt, both wet with… Read More
2019-06-23 22:38
Boots splashed and sucked through mud and bracky water. Three cutters picked through a morass, wound about tufts of swamp grass and bubbling pools scummed with algae. A yellow sky hung close… Read More
2019-05-28 21:43
Little eyes hung in grey solution. Voles' eyes. Charcoal dark; trailing strings of grey flesh like soft beads burst off a broken necklace. Dozens. Gawping, dumb, suspended in salty, chi… Read More
2019-04-18 00:21
Vapor curled from the cast iron pot, sloughed off the fatty top of creamy, yellow-spiced stew rolling slow within. Peppery; laden with rich, scented oils. A ladle plunged through, came… Read More
2019-04-03 03:29
Three cutters crouched in the underbrush. Three nervous stalkers clad in sweated leathers, eyes wide and shrouded by dripping leaves. They shifted, uneasy, on the damp earth, worried the gri… Read More
2019-03-27 16:46
"S'cuse me."A mittened hand rapped on the counter. A second laid a heavy book flat, beside.Across, a brown mouse in tweed and thick glasses looked from his crossword, beheld a scru… Read More
2019-03-01 23:11
Ice rattled, bounced into the frosted tumbler. A pour of clear liqueur followed, thick and sugary. It rolled, diverted like the spill of a waterfall over riverstones, became milky clear wher… Read More
2019-02-13 20:13
"It is a royal sport, Clemensa," said a dark and sunbaked man. With manicured fingers, he thumbed flechette rounds into a squat magazine. Sweat beaded on his forearms and lined brow.Across t… Read More
2019-02-02 03:22
A great map commanded the room. A gridded realm of canvass and ink stretched over continental furniture. Mice in suspenders and shirtsleeves scurried, titans, over the tiny landscape,&n&hell…Read More
2019-01-15 03:05
"Jorge."Jorge shifted in his hammock, exhaled fitfully. He wrapped a hand round his sleeping head, hunched his shoulders, dozed on. Beside, the speaker, a short sailor in cornrows, moaned. "… Read More
2018-12-30 19:00
Brown husks of leaves drifted on the autumn road. Sticky branches shivered above, loosed what cladding they yet possessed to spiral in the bitter wind. Not far over the squat, umber hills, a… Read More
2018-12-01 01:50
The pen tapped impatiently. Flecks of dried ink speckled the paper; a contract, written in block font, titled "certificate of employ." The tapper, a scruffy, hard-bitten cutter in leathers… Read More
2018-11-20 22:07
A summer's breeze slipped through the kitchen window, through hanging pans and swaying sheafs of basil. Heady, sedative, laden with sea salt and the sweetness of orange groves in full fruit… Read More
2018-10-08 22:23
It was the height of noon, and a yellow sun shon weighty on the drover's lane. It put a shimmering heat in the clay, filled ruts cut by hooves and wagons' wheels with grubby, liquid mirage… Read More
2018-09-24 05:08
A flint snapped in the dark. Greasy flame rippled over meagre kindling; hair and pine chippings soaked in oil. A startling blaze. A blinding point in a pitchy void. "S'bright" mumb… Read More
2018-08-30 01:57
There was a rapping at the door. Wan eyes peered through faceted glass above the knocker, smiled weakly as they saw a butler approach within. The latch turned under a white glove… Read More
2018-08-22 19:24
It was a squally day at sea. Pinprick rain struck from clouds like looming anvils. Nipping wind riled up black and gnashy surf. Miles east, the thin eye of a lighthouse blinke… Read More
2018-07-29 20:02
Iron creaked. Rust fell from wrought hinges stiff from age and wrapping ivy. Small hands pushed into the pitted bars, shoved. There was a huff, an exasperated kick. "Heike" grumbled Kar… Read More
2018-07-18 22:11
The oven door swung wide. Damp, rye heat billowed from within. Knotty hands slid a wooden peel into the depths, produced a gold and crackly loaf. The sweating baker set it on a rack, de… Read More
2018-06-24 20:58
In a white-washed cell, there sat a man alone. He hunched, manacled, at a table set for two. High up the wall, setting sunlight played through iron bars. A crisscrossed beam graced the man… Read More
2018-06-15 01:18
There was a bump in the road. The stagecoach jumped, rocked on ironclad wheels. Inside, Ewan lolled, snapped awake. He straightened from his dozy slump, rubbed his eyes."Morning" said a… Read More
2018-05-30 20:43
It was a summer night. Cicadas burred from ends of branches. Pixies rolled, tittered in their leafy beds. Silver-limned clouds passed over a porous, bloated moon. The lit… Read More
2018-05-15 04:51
"This is the first you've encountered such a thing, Coroner?" * said the man in white. He touched the brim of his wide hat, pulled it low. Beside strode a fellow in a grey apron, shirtsleeve… Read More
2018-04-14 22:11
With every creaking yaw, the lantern swung on its hook. Its glow played over the Captain's pockmarked cheeks, slipped through scarred divots and crinkled crow's feet. He sat, chin tucke… Read More
2018-03-24 17:54
Hawthorn had just tucked into an egg. He had rapped it twice with a butterknife, peeled back the top, and ladled out a goey teaspoonful. Slowly, he daubed the yolk on some toast, peppered it… Read More
2018-03-03 04:18
With the man’s every step, a flat note tolled. An iron bell bounced round his neck. Faces turned, startled, shuffled away.Stoat turned from the bar, stared, wrinkled her upturned nose… Read More
2018-02-10 03:14
Something slithered in the underbrush. A bobbing shadow pursued it, fast and methodical over duff and scattered twigs. A scaly tail flicked, disappeared under a drift of rotten leaves… Read More
2018-01-21 00:11
"Don't like this very much, Scotloff" muttered Karl. He sniffed the bitter air, wiped his nose. "Not many possibilities for what could've happened. I don't like any of them.""Aye" agreed Sco… Read More
2018-01-21 00:11
Many hundreds of ribbons fluttered in the summer air. Ribbons, tied to the spikes of a hundred soldiers’ helms. Armored men and women grumbled, queued under the swelter. Rough hands fa… Read More
2018-01-11 21:57
The consortium doors banged open. Noses lifted from oaken counters, distracted from their paper-stamping and coin counting. Three pairs of boots stamped in, trailed mud and snow. They clicke… Read More
2018-01-06 19:23
Chips of sticky bark scattered on the snow. Hod wrenched his axe from the fir trunk, hoisted it. His shoulders knotted, lifted under furs and wool. Steel bit deep again into white wood. Hod… Read More
2017-12-29 16:12
The dormitory door creaked. Stocking feet pattered in the dark. Nightgown skirts whipped softly about small ankles. A pigtailed shadow crossed the moonlit window, clutched something heavy i… Read More
2017-12-29 14:18
"Don't like this very much, Scotloff" muttered Karl. He sniffed the bitter air and wiped his red nose. "Not many possibilities for what could've happened, and I don't like any of them.""Aye"… Read More
2017-12-28 03:17
If, while delving in a deep cave, you find a large, red gemstone under some moldy bones and an old woolen hat, know that you have found a dverg.Simply pick it up (taking care, it's likely as… Read More
2017-12-28 03:12
Dawn breaks over the purple hills. Warmed by the light, iris buds twitch atop leggy stems. They bloom luxuriantly, stretching soft limbs and delicate, violet petal-wings. Tiny white hands ba… Read More
2017-12-28 03:12
Shawn licked a handful of gravel, spat. He held a lantern to the grit. "Marble and mold" he said, licking his palette. "We'd best watch out." He scattered the tiny stones. They clattered on… Read More
2017-12-22 19:02
The hulk of a greenish, barnacle-crusted cog hung under Saint Pierro Bridge. Strange folk crept up creaky scaffolds nailed to the crossing's piers, swaggered through a pair of saloon doors s… Read More
2017-12-22 19:02
A potent, medicinal grey salt mined in the eponymous Bay of Grey. Grisodate is a powerful antibiotic, and readily corrodes finstyrite. Its antibiotic properties are utilized to fight disease… Read More
2017-12-22 19:01
Rain hisses on the gargoyle's back. Mist spews through its crooked teeth like spittle. Lizbet sets an elbow on the snarling thing's shoulder. Cold damp seeps into her skin. She levels a heav… Read More
2017-12-22 19:00
The Knight watched countless steps pass beneath his clicking sabatons. He climbed a winding stair, head bowed to shining marble. Rainbow flecks, shed by ascending, stained windows, played o… Read More
2017-12-22 18:59
Sheamus kicked and wriggled through the water, squinted his red eyes against stinging brine. A pouch trailed from his neck on long straps, floated beside his scaly tail.The mouse pushed thro… Read More
2017-12-22 18:56
A man stepped neath the courtyard gate. He carried a leather roll under one arm, long as a man, coiled like a rug. Snow crunched under his tasseled boots. Eyes surveyed him fr… Read More
2017-12-21 01:22
A quartet of rough hands raised fists of wine. Dots of light swam in the cherry liquid, glittered in crystal bowls. "Cheers!" said four voices, thumped the table with as many fists."And a wa… Read More
2017-12-16 19:07
From the palace's high windows, a grey woman watched the glittering azure bay. There, hundreds of fat, laden carracks sat at harbor, trapped by a line of tallships which gripped the circular… Read More
2017-12-16 15:37
Mist caressed the moors. It stroked the bruise-black heather, set gentle dewdrops on countless twisted stems. It kissed the still faces of stagnant pools, concealed shallow, submerged skulls… Read More
2017-12-06 02:34
A bright, midsummer moon lit the clearing. Shadowed fir arms, saggy with cones, swayed over dewy grass. Soft, twisted mushrooms poked above the blades. A lone weed with heavy, chard-like ste… Read More
2017-10-07 18:00
A cigarette wobbled under the clerk's scrubby mustache. "Next" he said, voice level, bored.A young woman stumbled to the counter, shoved by the queue. Mousy brown bangs curtained her face, b… Read More
2017-09-04 13:26
"The Madame Countess Fiora Matilde Phillipa Geneve, Suzerain of Leah" declared the Court Marshal. The bead-eyed Countess strolled past him, followed by tittering retainers. Across… Read More
2017-08-05 14:58
If a patch of mold has sprung up in your cellar, you'd best investigate. Check the mold's consistency. If it's black, brown, green, or at all fuzzy, you're fine; scrub it off and don't worry… Read More
2017-08-02 20:17
The Coast has known the marvel that is the printing press for well over three centuries. In the time since then, literacy has become pervasive in the upper-middle class and above. People enj… Read More
2017-08-02 20:15
Colm crawled forward, dug his elbows into the sod. Field grass and flowers crumpled under his chest as he shimmied. A haze of cloying, orange pollen hung in the air. He resisted the urge to… Read More
2017-07-21 19:26
Magicians are known for wearing soft, thin gloves. They do so to hide their hands; to hide the marks of their art. Long, fine, crisscrossing scars. Weird, organic, tattoo-like markings and r… Read More
2017-07-21 19:26
The varieties of Necrophagus which plague the Coast are specialized and multifarious. Among these strains exists N. Insecta, an aggressive, common form of ghoul; and N. Succubus, a rare, dea… Read More
2017-07-21 19:21
The people of the Coast seek many methods of ameliorating their woeful lives. Among these methods are a variety of drugs, both exotic and benign. Some, like pepperelle cigarillos, are hallma… Read More
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