Daily prompts
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The Taste of Hollow Promises
What bothers you and why? The crystal resonance chamber hummed with the discordant frequencies of exhaustion as Mira Coalwright pressed her palm against the pulsing wall, feeling the vibrations travel through bone and sinew like needles of crystallized fatigue. Sixteen hours. Sixteen hours of channeling harmonic energy through the primary stabilization matrix, her voice raw… Continue reading
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Eons of Certainty
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain. Aureus the Ancient settled his massive form deeper into the crystalline cavern that had served as his contemplation chamber for the past three millennia, each scale along his golden hide catching and refracting the ethereal light that emanated from the walls around him. The chamber itself… Continue reading
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Beyond the Familiar Gates
A fantasy short story: young guard Keiran Ironwatch hands back his bronze key and must choose between security and adventure. Continue reading
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The Audacity of Impossible Guests
A fantasy short story: Ambassador Cordelia Brightmoore invites seven impossible guests from seven realms to one dinner, and all of them say yes. Continue reading
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The Seasoning of Years
What do you think gets better with age? Master Dorian Ashworth set down his quill with deliberate care, watching the ink pool and settle at the end of a sentence that had taken him three attempts to complete without allowing frustration to bleed through the parchment. Across his desk in the Guild Arbitration Chamber, young… Continue reading
