Once upon a time, I think, a hero saved a spaceship.
But that was a long time ago. Now, I only save myself.
Five years after Edmund follows Lucy into the wardrobe, the siblings return to England.
Read MoreTurns out finding a fantasy world on the other end of her boyfriend’s parents' scientific portal is not the happy-go-lucky adventure Valerie might have expected.
Read MoreJust because Paulina can transform into a super-powered ghost girl doesn’t mean she wants to waste her valuable time protecting the city. Too bad a certain ghost-hating loser is blackmailing her into fighting ghosts anyway in exchange for keeping quiet about her secret.
Read MoreGrief is a stormcloud behind my temple, fogging my thoughts and dripping condensation until the skin beneath my eyes feels heavy and swollen with unshed tears. I drift through the day, completing tasks that require minimum mental capacity as time skips, stutters, stumbles around me. An hour passes in an instant; the next never ends.
Read MoreAfter speaking the Word, Jadis is very tired. Deep Magic has always been taxing, and this was the deepest magic of all. She has stolen the lives of every single being of an entire world; she has cut short all but the dreadful endless march of time itself.
Read MoreSitting on the cold cement floor with his head tipped back to the wall, Mackenzie muses on the distinctive smell of blood. He is almost used to it, as much as anyone can be, thanks to his years on the force. But that doesn’t make it any less unpleasant, and it doesn’t stop that curl of fear that tickles the back of his throat.
Read MoreThe woman was dying when T0T0 found her. Shaking limbs and strained breaths were a clear enough sign of poison-induced death; it wouldn’t be long now. I hung back, shielded by the rusted-out shell of a long-forgotten car, and studied the area for signs of a trap.
Read MoreI can still feel the perfect circle of his lips against mine, a millisecond of contact stretched across years of memory for the simple confession it held: I like you. I had no time to respond before the kiss ended — could not have responded had I wished. I was frozen in the shock of realizing that unannounced, my first kiss had come and gone.
Read MoreOn the morning the skies flushed deep purple and crimson with the blood of the air-nymphs, Riverbank June was seated high on the rooftop of her family's tower dreaming of ship sails and maps and the burn of rope against her palms.
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