by Sierra | Sep 8, 2017 | Short Stories
Arthur Blakeney hated September. He didn’t despise fall’s arrival, or his students’ return to his one-room schoolhouse, or even the picking of apples and pumpkins. He once welcomed all these changes and more, but now they evoked dread instead of...
by kingdompen | Sep 6, 2017 | Poetry
By Isabelle Evans There she stood, Tall and pale in the moonlight, Pearlescent eyes glowing, Silver scales shining. The dragon queen, Glorious majesty, Hatched from a moon, Fathered by a star. She opens her mouth, Breathing silver fire into the night, Casting light...
by kingdompen | May 24, 2017 | Poetry
By Joy Peklenk The ground I stand on shrinks below my feet As does my soul and my great worlds inside As I gaze up to majesty complete To glowing specks of fire that melt my pride How distant are those hypnotizing dots How radiant those terrible ghosts of light And...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Apr 29, 2017 | Articles, Theme
Few flaws can kill a story’s theme and message as much as blatancy. We’ve all read books that constantly hit us over the head with the author’s beliefs. Afterwards we resolve never to do this as authors. But then we sit down to write and realize how easy it is to make...
by kingdompen | Apr 17, 2017 | Articles, Style
Readers can't relate to a story without narrative description. It happens in a vague world of shadows and smoke that readers have never visited—a world of floating voices and gunshots (splitting the silence, probably) but no real physical matter. It fails...
