Magic, Dad? I’m starting to wonder if the “magic” you left out here for me is all just my imagination. After all, no one else has noticed the amazing birds that I keep seeing and hearing. Maybe they’re just birds.

I keep trying to get Charlie to see the funny little birds. That would prove that I’m not imagining them. I would love to see Charlie’s reaction to seeing a bird dressed up as a cheerle...

I stare at the beautiful man cloaked in the silver moonlight smiling while waiting for me to speak.

"Are you the man that answers wishes?" I ask hesitantly, fidgeting with my fingers.

The man smiles and responds in a smooth, luring voice, "I do something quite like that. What do you wish for, Aurelia?"

I take a deep breath and repeat the words I've practiced many times over. "I wish to be strong...

**_MAGIC_** comes with a price.

Are you willing to pay?

The fee of a soul

but a soul isn’t owned

nor blood or bone

or fleshly home

pay with your fate, mortals

the staff becomes serpent

then Aaron’s bloom

pay your price to the prince

cast tomorrow to pharaoh

to Horus and Ra

wade to the Nile

see it red again

write your fury on the reeds

your piece on papyrus

on sandstone sphinx

pry it fr...

Magic comes with a price are you willing to play?

My art long dormant, I began to create one day

And long into the night

My lines were fluid my colors sublime.

Shapes and forms filled the page and trailed to the edge of the handmade paper

The texture it provided enchanting the piece

I was high and solitary and felt like I were home again

The light on my studio steady and bright

Moonbeams through ...

_“Magic has a price, are you willing to pay it? Luca?”_

That is what his great-grandmother had said when he had showed an interest in magic.

Oh how luca loved his _‘price’…_

_ _Luca, a man with black ebony hair and sapphire like eyes, came from a family of mages. Spellcasters. Healers. Poisoners. Herbalists, and a few necromaners.

No one in the Mori family ever had a patron or a dei...

Ancient magic has gifted a certain few

A magic thay now belongs to you

With the flame we make

The ground, we shall shake

But it still holds a great vice

Magic comes with a great price

Breaks your life everyday

Are you still willing to pay?...

“Magic comes with a price, are you willing to pay?”

The impossibly deep voice kept rumbling through Elizabeth’s head as she splashed through the damp cobblestone alley. Darting furtive glances around her, she hugged her shawl tighter. It seemed as though every shaded corner or dark alcove held those eyes.

Eyes like smoldering coals. That’s all she had seen that night. Two slanted lines seemingly ...

Surya stared at the bleeding man at her feet. She was tired of this; men trying to attack her. They always ended up dead. They always ended up in trouble. They needed to learn.

She walked away as fast as she could. She didn’t want to get caught up in this again. She knew that the police would be on her within the minute they saw this. They always showed up at her house.

Surya made her way to h...

Tinker belle knew and loved Peter the whole time.

But Peter chose Wendy.

Cinderella got a brand new dress and Prince.

But she lost everything that was left of her family.

Repunzal found love.

But he cut off her favorite part of herself.

Alladin got magic wishes.

But his life changed completely.

Magic comes with a price.

Are you willing to pay?...

I ran down the street looking for anywhere to hide but all I saw were locked up houses. I needed to find somewhere to disappear into before the police officers caught me again.

Why did I have to punch that guy? I'm so stupid when I'm angry. He really deserved it though, he had tried to steal my purse from right off my shoulder. But all anyone, including the police officers, saw was me punching hi...