On My Way Home - Part #3
Ariana Merrill
Eleanor didn’t speak. Instead she picked up the rabbit off of her and put him on the pillow next to her head. Two tears rolled down her cheeks, which she wiped off on her own pillow.
“I really am sorry Eleanor.”
“This shouldn’t happen here. Since I’ve gotten to this world I’ve witnessed a murder attempt, been frightened out of my mind by a wolf, and had my heart broken. This is supposed to be a land of make-believe where everything turns out all right in the end.”
“There’s no place like that, not even here. Everywhere you go you will find fear, and evil, and pain. There’s no place, in any world that will protect you from that.”
“You’re just an optimist at heart aren’t you?” Eleanor blew out the candle next to her bed.
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Mystic Crystal, Ancient Gold
Jerrel Swingle
She loved the smell of the ocean, loved to close her eyes and inhale the scent of faraway. She enjoyed the cries of the seagulls. Her heart thrilled to the sound of the breakers crashing on the reefs guarding the lagoon, and the feel of the ocean’s breath on her face.
Today she stopped, shaded her eyes, and enjoyed the visual poetry of white foam and blue-green water, of a sky turning from blue to pink until she noticed something dark bobbing on the waves, still too far away to tell what it was. Ana stood and watched as each surge of the tide brought the object closer.
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The Beast Sinister - Part #2
Gerald Ryan
The brush parted. Taloned hands spread branches. Two cat’s eyed pupils set in a vaguely human head stared at me with the unsettling intelligence of an Oustlander Beast. Coarse brows wrinkled in that hairy face as the head tilted, then nodded in recognition. It rose from its crouch in the brush but did not advance toward me. Around its waist, it wore a torn, black sash. Through animal teeth and palate, the creature half spoke, half growled a greeting.
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Editorial - Part #3 (Go Ahead and Identify)
Within our third issue, we are wrapping up two of our novelette length tales, Manly House and On My Way Home. Manly House was our first prize winner in one of our pre-issue contest and On My Way Home was our second prize winner in that same contest. Personally what I like most about both of these stories was the how their authors brought realization to their main characters. Manly who has pushed away all human contact finds that he becomes punished by his own design and Eleanor comes to terms with the concept of fear and its very real place in fairyland and the real world.
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