of The Inn of Stormy Nights
An ancient proverb speaks of how, if two people meet when blossoms fall upon a pond, their destinies will echo and entwine with each other. In the spring, during the height of the Empire of Twelve Kingdoms, a young Druadin visited the Imperial capital for the first time, hoping to find answers that even the …
Six years later Starling Swan still found himself attracting trouble. Despite changing his name, in an attempt to keep trouble away from himself, the trouble that a Swan tended to attract still wandered up and tripped the squire more often than not. By this point, everyone across the Continent had heard of the Black Knight …
The Lighthouse contains countless stories that play across time and space, but at the center of all these events is not the Lighthouse as you may think. The center of every event that ever happened and ever will began with love on an island in a crystal sea. The love traveled to a great continent …
Some of my favorite stories are just whispers told when the moon is high and the fire is low. They come as the horizon between waking and sleeping is met. They are the stories that have no clear beginning or ending and no one is quite sure where they came from. Some discount these stories …
The Return of the Traveler King On the eastern shore, a silver-cloaked figure walked to the beat of chilled spray and squawks of puffins. The locals, creeping from their warm beds as dawn poked through autumn clouds, mistook him for a ghost dressed in grey, haunting the red sand shores. He seemed more mist than …
Of Doors and Stumbling Around in the Dark She had opened the door, expecting light, or at the very least, a light switch. She was here to find answers. Her sisters had said they’d found lanterns when they’d done this. Maybe hers would be in the form of a candle. She’d not seen much …
She wasn’t a Betty. Or a Betsy. Not even a Milly, a Molly or a Mandy. Certainly not a Mary or a Charlotte. Catherine was too pretentious and Elizabeth, too grand. No, she was just Terry. This is all learned the third time I met her. Directly, anyway. Though even as I say third time, …