The Heart of the Fox Spirit
By Chezza Lee in Issue #463 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine Was it sinister, what Ying had done to Hei Lang? I grew up knowing I should avoid fox spirits and that they would eat my heart with no remorse. I should be more afraid after my meeting with Ying, but I attributed my curiosity to her captivating nature and the magic that confu...
The Age of Cancer
This is our struggle. We scuttle on the sand before the softly breathing salt-burdened sea with the lichen on the rocks a bright poison green and great white butterflies screaming under a red sky while we dream of justice and watch the ghost of a long-extinct rat ancestor, an ancestrat if you please, you know the ones we mean, the toothy ones wh...
The Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon
Ánar’s bootheels echoed on the iron floor. What a groundbreaking honor this ceremony was for a landless tenant like him—joining old house Veivilkas, of the wolf. Such an honor that it made him leaden to think of, made him long for sleep. At the conclusion of the ceremony, he would no longer be merely Ánar from the undercity, scarab-kin, but Ánar...
Alterverse
Asha is eight pages into the book before the words disappear. There are still hundreds of pages before the end of the book, so they must have had a record of the length of the volume, but lost the text. It’s a common experience in this library, to encounter fragments of things, to have to make educated assumptions about what once was.
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