Link Ferrying souls across the River Styx is an unpleasant and monotonous business. One day, a living human shows up demanding to speak to the manager. The ferryman is incredulous, but after relenting,

Link instead of the British industrial revolution, a magical revolution takes place in the late 1700s that results in the United States never becoming a superpower. Britain engages in a policy of isolationism,

Link You are a harpy, a half-human and half-bird amalgamation that comes from a family of wealthy landowners. Although you are a young baroness, you find it hard to make friends outside of your own family

Link The man known as the President of the United States of. . . . the most powerful country in the world, walked toward a secured room at the heart of the vast United States Capitol building. It was a

Link You are a shy boy who is new in town with no friends to speak of. At a fair, you win one of the games and receive a wooden unicorn as your prize. In the middle of the night, you awake to find a real

Link My name is Demophon. I am a psychic demigod and I have been waiting to fight in the Coliseum since the day I turned sixteen. "Your next fight will last fifteen minutes. You will fight Gladius

Link During my first year at university, I heard a story which has continued to stick with me since. At the time, I was doing research on functional medicine and in particular, I was interested in the

Link The sun rose in the distance, lighting up the night like a bright star in a dark stormy sky. It reflected off Darius' helmet shield, making his shadow that fell across his face dance and sway along

Link Zabuza had decided to stay with Kisame Hisoka and Kana Hisoka. Kisame's mother had died when Kisame was fourteen, and Kisame's father had died during the Kyuubi attack, which Kisame survived, becoming

Link Tail running behind it like a dog, the canine dashed across the street. In his mouth was a steak. The canine was a mother, her pups were with her and she was running to what she thought was a house

Link "What are you? I mean . . . er . . . well . . ." "Me? Why I'm a board of direction; but I don't actually have a direction. That's the point, I'm all direction and no destination."

Link "Do you know where we are?" The first words he had wanted to say to her, since they had met in the digital world. Only thing that he could think of saying, and it wasn't much, but it was

Link The morning of her graduation was special because she had met with a sad end. It was after ten pm when I started thinking that I should make a visit to the tomb of the Queen of Singapore. There I

Link Half asleep, Khaali stared into the darkness. Even here in her sleep, her eyes would flicker about, searching for the something that lurked here, waiting for her. They say life's toughest battle is

Link You were my first kiss - the first and only one; the first and only kiss between two humans, the first and last kiss between us. I remember our first kiss well, it was stolen in the hallway of the

Link It was as though he was a shooting star, one light in a universe of darkness, floating around a vast pool of nothingness. However, he knew this wasn’t the case. He knew he wasn’t a shooting star,

Link "Couldn't you have gotten a normal job?" asked Liselle, as they walked down the long dark highway toward the county. "I needed a job," answered Ulric. "I needed money to pay

Link The Monarch was a special kind of man, one you don't encounter often in your life. He was tall, wore rimless glasses, and had not aged much, a typical ancient man. His grandfatherly kindness spewing

Link Like every other day back home, the plane had picked me up from school and brought me back to London once again. But unlike any other day, it dropped me off right in the middle of a busy intersection.

Link In the hushed and dying house silence accompanied the faded, moth eaten fabric of the ebony curtains that hung at the front door of the deserted house. The soft thud thud of a minute aperture within