“Why’s it always something cool?” Mitchel suddenly exclaimed while staring at a monitor. “Pardon?” Tia responded looking up at him from her tablet. “Why’s it always something cool? Yo know when someone goes ‘I was a so and so in a previous life’ or ‘I have a spirit animal and it’s a unicorn’ when’s the last time anyone went ‘A dung beatle is my spirit animal’ or ‘My previous incarnation was a drunken sewer worker’?”…
Colin works in a steak house and spends most of his time ideally smoking out the back, he also has a thing for the store owner. Colin it seems has a gambling problem and has found himself owing a local loan shark a significant sum of money. The owner of Colin’s work gets kidnapped by the loan sharks goons. Colin manges to get the money to pay back the loan shark with interest but is…
Terra is an uptown girl from a highly privileged family, she spends her time flitting from one high class socialite party to another and mixing with all the coolest and most important people in town. Terra finds the entire affair tedius and one day goes downtown encountering Dual and a makeshift family of gang bangers. Distrustful but curious she becomes a ad-hoc member of the group. The corporation Terra’s father is a senior leader for…
Shelby was the but of many a joke but nothing had ever been serious enough to really irritate him yet now he was stood outside of the headteacher’s office waiting for a proper kicking and quite likely a suspension. He seemed at peace with the situation looking at the various notices on the board in front of him. It had all kicked off about an hour before when Tracy a girl in his class had…
So when I’m really stuck on things to write, and I’m actually really trying to write as opposed to pretending to intend to write I’ll knock out some Last to the First. The idea is simple, start writing names, the first letter of the last name becomes the first letter of the first name for the next name in the list. Just carry on until your brain is like, “hey dude, I can do some…
Quinn is working as a freelance guard in the run down town of Oberreich he’s staying at a small in while working for a wealthy local merchant. Quinn is approached by a group offering him money to turn his back while they attack the merchant, he turns them down. Quinn protects the merchant but when he returns to the inn it’s burnt down and the family have been killed. Quinn vows revenge and becomes embroiled…
Ki : IntroductionShō : DevelopmentTen : Twist (complication)Ketsu : Conclusion (reconciliation) Tea is a new student at the academy who wishes she was something more than she is. Tea is attacked and almost killed by a crazed woman when she is saved by a mysterious man who it turns out is a wizard, after saving her he leaves but she tracks him down and convinces him that he should make her his apprentice. The wizard…
Ki : IntroductionShō : DevelopmentTen : Twist (complication)Ketsu : Conclusion (reconciliation) Sara and her companion “Bear” arrive at Newton Cylinder to attend the engineering academy. Sara meets professor Tupel a leading but peculiar expert in the field of stellar engineering. Sara discovers that Professor Tupel is planning to bring Proxima Centauri to our solar system and use it to create an inter stellar ark. Sara resolves to join the Ark project and see it through…
A withered old man sat in a large velvet-covered chair a blanket over his lap and cat nestled in one arm as his other arm rested on the chair’s long boney gem-encrusted fingers tapping the ornate hand rest. He had an old pair of spectacles and long dishevelled hair over an antique-looking smoking jacket. Stood the opposite him behind a desk another old man stood, with short grey hair, a monical and a brown suit,…
Towards the end of the twenty-first-century humans were still bound to earth, a lack of energy and easy means to produce it meant that only a few nation-states possessed enough to make life comfortable for their people, while the rest could only dream, and fight for the ability to duplicate that life. As a result warfare was a constant feature and it felt too many that war had become a way of life, powerful nation-states…