“Did you know Neptune and Uranus may have oceans of liquid diamond?” Luis asked. Claudia murmured, without paying much attention, “Really?” “There may be diamond icebergs in the oceans,” he told her. “Man, if only the Djinn could travel that far. If we could bargain with a Djinn to bring back one of those icebergs, […]
“I can’t find him anywhere.” As soon as Alice heard the nanny sob those words over the phone, she had a few quick words with her classroom assistant, then she grabbed her purse and rushed out of the room, leaving her assistant to handle the class and notify the principal. While she ran down the […]
Land magic wrapped around her, archaic and untamed. Crossover passages to Other lands existed somewhere nearby. Maybe several of them. Maybe even a lot of them. Soaking it in, walking steadily, Sophie fell into a trance until what looked like the head of a dark mop trundled onto the road several yards ahead. It just […]
“I don’t want to go to school!” Chloe raged. She threw a couch pillow. Her small face was suffused with pink. “I do’wanna!” Max echoed his sister gleefully as he rampaged around the living room, chubby legs pumping. “I do’wanna go to school!” Chloe was, in fact, quite excited to start first grade. She had […]
The scar on Rune’s thigh particularly offended Carling. Normally she disposed of things that offended her with ruthless efficiency, but the scar was different. She couldn’t dispose of it. She couldn’t put it at a distance. She couldn’t stop looking at it. She couldn’t stop remembering the terror that had frozen her heart when she […]
“Are you ready?” Niniane kept her deadpan face locked down tight, tight, tight, and gave Tiago her best cool stare. Playing poker against a Wyr as cagey as Tiago who knew her so well was quite the challenge. He could sense excitement from the change in her scent, which had thrown off many of her […]
As Pia got ready for bed, nerves tied her stomach up in knots. She wasn’t used to feeling nervous about going to bed. Excited, sure. Delighted, definitely. The intimate times she shared with Dragos in the bedroom were some of her happiest experiences. And it wasn’t just about the sex, although God knows that was […]
Today sucked more than any other Monday, because, well, it was today. It was not a past Monday and not future one, but right now, so she had to live it. First item of suckiness? She forgot to get her dirty clothes to the laundry on Friday. She kicked through everything on the floor in […]