Storyfeather

His best friend insisted that he go see a therapist.  Jorge was surprised and disappointed because his buddy was a believer in unusual phenomena, and if there was anyone who wouldn’t think he was off…

After death, some souls go to reward and some to punishment.  Then there are the ones who just need to do some “community service” to atone for minor wrongs.

Joe is a spirit tasked with counting th…

“We’re fascinated by cats, aren’t we?  Cats on the internet.  Pictures, videos, memes.  Cats in our homes.  Ancient civilizations shaped statues of cats out of gold, ebony, and bronze.  They have bee…

I wasn’t afraid it would hurt me on purpose. But I was afraid of it in that way that one is afraid of a mountain or a dark forest, or any force of nature that is immense and unknowable.

Mira is a c…

Ever since humanity has taken to the sky, there have been forces at play that seek to bring us back down to the earth.  And forces at play that aim to keep us airborne.

The Chief Engineer of a ship…

She was never seen.  Neither face nor form.  Some say it was because she was so beautiful that the queen and king feared she would inspire terrible and unrelenting envy.  Others said the opposite was…

I was tired.  My eyelids felt heavy and they burned a little.  I hadn’t slept well again.  I wanted nothing more than to lie down.  But I couldn’t sleep and maybe wouldn’t unless I started making pro…

The king was cruel, both to his daughter and to her suitors.  For he was not content for her to be wooed by gifts or by lineage.  He devised a contest, a deadly contest, for all who wished to try and…

The lady was born with fingernails the color of blood.

All the men wore beards in the far, far south where the town lay covered in snow for half the year.

A highborn lady’s unusual birthmark and a …

Sally had been blindfolded and brought to a few different “undisclosed locations” because the sites that held the instrumentation needed to study him needed to remain confidential.  So he didn’t even…

People hire me to find things for them.  I have a special skill that may not seem like a big deal at first blush, but if you think about, you’d realize just how useful it can be.  Like now.  I don’t …

They say the city that sits on the horizon at sunset is nothing but cosmic dust.  I say otherwise.  I’ve been there.  For some reason I left.  I can’t remember the reason.  I can’t remember anything …

As far as we know, those who claim to hear voices other than their own have something wrong with them.

That’s what I once believed.

A man stumbles upon a mysterious box that seems to fall from the …

My name is Felix.  I want to tell you about the time my brother, my sister, and I came down with the pox.  Not just the chicken pox, but the other one too.  The one we caught from a runaway sprite.  …

Demons.  The sorceress held a most precious treasure, which the demons’ master desired.  She had it in her arms, even as they surrounded her on the high hill behind her home.  She spotted Hector.  Sh…

There is a potion that can be made from the bright yellow mushroom that grows in the vales beyond the blue grasses.  The potion must be made in a certain way or it would contain no power at all.  The…

I am Nova.

I have the heart of a star beating inside me.

I am not long for this world.

I would prefer to live.

After learning the truth about the stars, Nova believes she has been chosen to carry o…

It figures, she thought.

One of the containers was full of sand. A kind of pretty black glittery sand. And not the crispy savory steamy dumplings that Alora had dreamt of since leaving work that even…

My name is Dolores Potterson.  But everyone calls me Dotty Potsy.  It’s a long story.  It’s a doozy.  And almost no one believes it, which is why they say I’m dotty.

With no experience or expertise…

She was poor, so poor.  And she was weak from hunger.  Almost too weak to beg.  Her mother was sick, her father gone to war, his fate unknown, and her two younger brothers were starving.  Despite all…