The enigmatic Peacock King, ruler of half of the known world, seeks to possess the land itself by enslaving the spirits of the wild. Gerald, a newly initiated Poet whose magic is as real as he can write it, is also one of the Armed—enforcers of the Law who wield guns with souls. His mission: infiltrate the Peacock King’s Court . . .
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A variety of short narratives revolving around central storylines, as written by Samazing. Fantasy, science fiction and even a touch of dark humor will feature prominently. Expect violence and intrigue as believabe characters penetrate the mystery and corruption of the author’s mind. . . .
The Descendants is web serial styling itself after a comic book universe, right down to a format that included minis, annuals and one shot stories. The central plot follows the lives of a group of superpowered individuals (psionics) as they attempt to live together following a betrayal by the organization supposedly meant to protect them. Interpersonal relationships take as . . .
Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
A world of fantasy and fairytales, twisted together. This story begins when a “Red Riding Hood” appears in the Northlands, domain of the troubled and aloof Wolf. Unlike his Grimm Brothers counterpart that is all beast, the Wolf is a key figure in a world filled with strange halflings (as it were), who are neither human or creature . . .
It’s 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City. Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living. They have the skill. They have the will. And they have the bad habit of getting in over their heads. Which usually means run-ins with rival ronin, punkergangs, the mob, the . . .
Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
The main character of this story is a vampire, but not your traditional True Blood, Twilight, Buffy vampire. The main character of this story believes, for whatever reason, that she siphons energy out of other people, drawing in their life force in order to supplement her own. She feeds on them in hot, intense, seductive sexual encounters that leaves them . . .
Brian grew up knowing one thing about his father: that he hated him. Abandoned before he was even born, Brian resents his mother’s nostalgic yearning for the man that disappeared from her life. But what Brian believes he knows is about to be thrown into chaos when he learns that his father’s disappearance was caused by his death—a violent . . .
The experience of smell is the closest thing we have to intimate human contact without actually having it. A woman’s perfume. a whiff of cigarette smoke, a little bit of diesel fume, and some spearmint gum might come close to someone’s first kiss, for example. Of course, it’s impossible to create a first kiss without the human element, but for . . .
Adam thought he was going to die before he saw the girl striding through the flames towards him. She brought him hope, but the journey he is about to take will take him through peril after peril on a quest to fulfill their goal at any cost. Derrick was a bored graduate student at Merlon University, before his Professor . . .
A robot and an assassin team up to fight crime in the western suburbs of Minneapolis—for money, natch. And except for the evil uber-corporations and their leprechaun representative, an immortal witch and her dragon henchman, zombies, mysterious artifacts, competitive ninjas and a restaurant owner with proof that this all happens in an alternate world, things are pretty okay. . . .
The main problem with the average superhero origin story is that they tend to go like this: Step 1. Singular event happens in the hero’s past to motivate him/her. Step 2. Hero gains superpowers or trains hard to get abilities. Step 3. Hero becomes famous/notorious. The fact of the matter is that it is not one singular event that . . .
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the world moves quickly we forget beautiful things because we see not
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This is turning out to be an incredibly enjoyable read. When I first started it, I came in expecting only one thing: action. Quite frankly, "The List" struck me as little more than one frenetic, high-speed fight scene after the other. However, as I flung through the chapters (reading them doesn’t give the full effect of just how action-packed this [more . . .]