In a world filled with the brave,

The bold,

The new,

It is easy to feel left out.

It is easy to feel insignificant,

Like you are a tiny gray pixel on a screen of vibrant colors.

But all the legends,

All the heroes,

All the people who bring life and hope to this world,

They all started somewhere.

They started in a quiet room,

Wondering if they belonged.

They started in an empty world,

Wondering i...

The group of five carefully picked their way down the side of the mountain with Iam going before Savvy in case she fell. The five main leaders of each of the towns eagerly greeted them at the bottom.

"So, how was the trip?" One asked.

"Did it go alright?" Another wondered.

Tin glanced at the other four. They all looked back with large smiles. Tin looked toward the leaders.

"It is done. Everyth...

Cora and Misha both sat across from each other in the dim conference room, papers upon papers piled in front of them. Cora rolled her eyes at the mess, annoyed.

“My father was able to create a new system of government, yet he wasn’t able to keep these records straight,” Cora mumbled in annoyance. Misha nodded his head lightly, agreeing.

“Tell me about it,” he mumbled in his thick, Russ...

I stared at the black piano. I wanted to smash it, I wanted to end its life. Everyone always said music created an escape, a new life. For me it had only brought pain.

My mother loved hearing my Dad play. And then after he died she had wanted me to play.

Yesterday was the last time I’d ever play. At Mom’s funeral, it felt wrong to keep playing.

Who would I play for? Myself, Emily?

I shook my hea...

In the first part of", the story comes to a close as Aurora returns to the real world and brings back with her new knowledge and experience from the mirror world. At the end of the novel, Aurora realizes that the journey she has undertaken is only the beginning. She senses there are other realities to be explored, other realms to conquer, and that she has only just scratched the surface of what th...

Brady woke up early the next morning and realized that for the first time maybe in his life, he felt no tension, no anxiety. He turned his head and watched Mimi sleeping next to him, her face so serene and so beautiful. He couldn’t believe how much time the two of them had wasted in trying to stay away from each other, when all the stars had always been aligned to force them together. He rolled ov...

White as freshly laid snow the sky kissed the ice with a thin blue line. Silver pipelines carrying water snaked above the ice. Scarred orange hovertrains carrying workers and elements crisscrossed the pipes. On Harleys, Security Chief TwoAxes and Detective Hatchett waited at The Piper Junction entrance.

“You good Axe?”

“Why, we’ve worked with the Bureau on kidnappings among the triads. Is there s...