Kurt stood there. The sun shining onto Kurt’s shoulders. His staff lazily turning in between his fingers. He stared at the dawning light through the trees of the forest he stood there. His long blonde hair being toyed with by the wind as birds flew about him. He always did this his spell book rested in the crux of his crossed legs with it flipped open to an incantation entitled “the picture of na...

Left to die

Never expected to return

The glance of my troop

The look

“We wanted you dead”

Left dead in a ditch

They thought

My conscious snapped

I drew my gun

A bullet found its mark

“We’ll see who’s dead”

The cold of his heart

Replaced by the cold of death

...

I stood there leaning in the mantelpiece my feet on the ceiling my eyes a dark grey staring at the sofa that held the current owner mistork mansion. A small gentleman by the name of Jacob. He was asleep his cross word draped over his lap. I quickly flew to the study and picked up a fountain pen a flew back to the living room and took the crossword from his hands. He was always hopeless at those I ...

The letter was small no bigger than a fortune slip but as soon as Lerolyne touched it is grew to a parchment with the following words:

We are glad to tell you that you have been enrolled in Natasha’s school for strong willed mages thaw following items are required to complete your 10 year course:

Wand

Spell book

Cloak of displacement

The term starts on the 32nd of October please come to Orkney ...

Rigor Mortis had already set in but she managed to pry the piece of paper out of the victims cold lifeless hand. It was a note the words of which struck Lucille’s mind and shattered her fabric of reality sending her into a bout of madness.

She rolled around in the dirt maniacal laughter sounding from her deep red lips as the note was clutched tightly to her chest.

Her uncle Phinnias looked at h...

“So, mrs pond” AJ said with a touch of acid in his voice “you landed us in the one dimension where humans are an anomaly and then you go and break the one device that can get us home” His mind was racing fast but the stress had been making his heart beat his brain since breakfast.

That morning he had woken up with a sort of cylindrical metal tube with what looked like saucers on each end with a ...

Well things were fun

We had laughs every now and then

The gains, the wins, the fun

All of that was taken

With just a knife

And murder...

“Can you hear the drums Fernando? “ Ira stood in the doorway her husband Fernando stood there gun and arms, pack sling over his shoulder the war had started Fernando had been drafted he kissed Ira for one last time. He was going to France to fight in the Great War he wasn’t going to return. Meanwhile Ira was helpless to stop it Fernando was going to die. He was in a special regiment specialising i...

“Bump” it echoed through the hall. Gathering bravado as it went. It fell on Scott’s ear like a plague. He shook. It wasn’t the first time the house had gone bump in the night. He looked around. Nothing. He searched down the hall. Nothing. “Bump” there it was again the sound bouncing off the walls like a ball. Scott was scared now. His eyes darting left and right. A bad omen was at work and he was ...

The wolf’s eyes narrowed, he had smelt something, he looked around and saw it, a small rabbit silently grazing the grass, the wolf pounced but the rabbit saw and leaped away, the chase had started, trees rushed by the rabbits panic-stricken mind darting randomly left then right then right again, the wolf tracked the rabbit looking for any pattern any one that would end this, he found it, he jumped...