Tagged: microfiction

A Destiny Fulfilled

He was destined to protect the realms of Grayla by forsaking his place in the new world.

Cutting It Close

The metro is never late – except for today. Time is running out, shelter and safety still too far away.

The Age of Medusa

How do you kill a god? By taking all they represent and making it your own.
How do you become a god? By killing all the others.

Sound of Sin

It is 1683 and Vienna is under siege – from the Ottomans on the outside and refugee priests on the inside.

Melkita’ Ulamun

My mother was an amazing and brilliant musician. Music was her only ally in the long pitifully sad and abandoned evenings. She used to sing and play music to ease her weary mind and...

Jazz in the time of Blitzkrieg

Although the shrieking scream of the V2 rocket was receding, Billy was left trembling, in the drafty hollow apartment. He felt, more than heard, the low thud of the missile hitting the ground, if...

The Boy In the Library

There is something romantic about the Central Library. The world is always quiet in there. The perfect  tranquillity of life and the odour of knowledge and emotions resting calmly between the crispy pages. The...