The Great Desert

Living Beyond Life by Neve McSweeney

[Ruins of Stjarnagaaard/Afer Starfall] Rubble clattered over the ground. Smoke hung in the air suffocating anyone unfortunate enough to breathe it in. Buildings lay in ruins, the only remnants of the floating city left. Small fires still flickered from the lack of moisture. In the middle of the wreckage stood…

Two Days After by Nadia Dimond

Journal Entry (After Starfall) It’s two days after the big incident. A lot has changed, and many people have died and been injured. Nothing seems real. We didn’t think that Yore could ever fall, even though we knew it had to happen some day. But just not this…

Diary Entry by Sophie Nikolarakos

Diary Entry 7:28 strides past midday My stomach still feels like butterflies. I can’t seem to shake them. I need to, and soon, because if anyone finds out, it’s over for me. I probably, on second thoughts, shouldn’t be writing, just in case. …

Specimen 400012 by Bertie Atkin

Part 1 The sign hung over the massive shop- Take one item for free- but choose well. A hooded figure entered the Cabinet of Curiosity as a withered old woman sat at the desk and watched as the figure flung open the doors and slipped inside. Pickled taxidermy animals floated…

The Quest to Find Griswold by Thomas O’Grady

Griswold! What a nag! I thought. Idiot! I thought again. Chumster my friend said that he was an old goat, a hermit, or a phoney. What a caper to go on! I was a little cranky about meeting the old “goat” or hermit. But I was going to find him no matter…

Assassin’s Tale: Part 4 By Anwita Vasanth Koodalithazhathuveedu

By Anwita Vasanth Koodalithazhathuveedu The Sunken City was still. The Great Desert stretching around it for miles was still. The world of Ahoy was sleeping- except for two things; two shadows flitting about the desert. The shadows of a trained professional and an, although perhaps trained, still somewhat unprofessional…

The Sunken Treasure: Part 2 by Max Russo

“Soon the disappearance of Magic was too much for us to bear. I am the last of my kind.”  “Wow,” I said. “Interesting story. But seriously, what or who are the Imagineers?” “We are the embodiment of imagination. Usually we cannot be sensed. Although…

The Illusion: Part 1 by Hugo Brodribb

I sigh in relief as I finally locate the ‘welcome tavern’. Its curves and corners seem to spin, the huge gargoyles and giant sculptures that are peppered over the building give it an eery feel. I push the old, wooden door aside and stumble through the doorway. Inside is not…

The Sunken Treasure: Part 1 by Max Russo

I looked ahead. There it was. The treasure I had been seeking for months on end. Standing there on the cliff’s edge I felt like a sailor who just stumbled upon the lost city of Atlantis. It had tall curving spires peeking above the sand in a perfect…