Storyfeather

For the second time, she held the still-warm hand in her own hands.  And it felt wrong.  She slipped to her knees beside the bed.  She felt tears spill from her eyes and as they tracked down her face…

If only things had gone as he had envisioned in his visualization exercise.  He sighed.  Not an exercise, his visualization had gone out of hand and become a full-blow daydream.  He had marched into …

Hello, Citizens of Earth.  This is just a brief message to say there will be no episode of the Storyfeather podcast this week.  This is a good thing, because what I did instead this week is attend a …

That day, I was outside with my mom admiring the flowers in her garden when I spotted it, or them actually.  Two ships in the sky just under the cottony clouds.

Unidentified ships have been appeari…

“It’s everywhere,” the grizzled old cat said.  “It surrounds us.”  And he heard the expected fear-filled gasps and murmuring among his audience.

“This everywhere demon, what is it called grandsire?” …

Her memory of the past was not yet restored.  Remembering took effort and concentration.  And it would take time.

A queen meets a mysterious little boy who tells her a fantastic tale, one that seems …

The large man was lying on his stomach with his face turned to the side.  The left side of his face was visible.  That’s why I knew who it was.  Aside from his distinctive sharp features, Sylvio Mila…

…when the doctor placed her swaddled son in her arms, she looked down at his brilliant blue eyes and she grinned.

You and me, kid, she thought.

“Welcome to the world, Roland,” she said.  “I’m your mo…

I can hear it moving, I think.  It’s hard to tell with the other noises.  A car whooshing by sometimes.  Some cat moving through the bushes outside.  A neighbor went to the bathroom a few minutes ago…

“...So at about one-thirty we got a call from the local PD.  They themselves responded to an emergency call from the residence.  We have a recording, but I just got here about ten minutes ago myself.…

The procedure was not something that scared him. It should have. He understood enough to know what delicate and tricky work it would be for the surgeons, scientists, nurses, technicians, and whoever …

“I’m going to bring her back.”

“It is folly to defy death,” his father said.

“It is folly to accept death, when it comes for the wrong person.”

A young man travels to the afterworld to bring his mo…

The gate swung open with a high wail.  Razim swapped curious looks with Sidregar.  They paced into the city, scanning the streets for an open inn.  The streets were empty. 

The city seemed abandoned,…

Mirrors are not to be trifled with.

What dangers could there possibly be from gazing into a mirror?

Find out in this episode of the Storyfeather podcast.

Genre: Mythology, Fantasy

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The mages could not have been foolish enough to leave their greatest treasure unguarded.

What does a mage, a thief, and a destroyer have in common?

Find out in this episode of the Storyfeather podc…

For the past fortnight, we two had been tracking the whereabouts of the mysterious rider who was said to guard the roads in and out of Thessa, a major town in the southern region.   

Who—or what—is…

He glanced at the organ behind layers of glass and smiled even wider.  A beating heart.  An artificial heart.  And he had helped to create it, design it, mold it, and nurture it. 

Why is the first …

In the land of his own making, the one that abided in his heart and his head, he was a bard.  In truth, he was a rice man, one of the best in Trilenkary, the kingdom of his birth. 

A rice merchant wh…

I am the last.  The only one left.

We are defeated.

If I can’t do what I need to do now, what they need me to do now, we are defeated.

The pressure is on and it lies on the shoulders of one man.  W…

They’re a lot like us.  The Promethians.  That’s not what they call themselves, but I could never really pronounce (or spell) the proper word, so I call them the Promethians.  And others started call…