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1989, St. Augustine's Orphanage, London
Early in the morning, the sun was still hidden behind a pale horizon. The air in the yard was cool and damp, filled with the scent of dew.
A boy stood barefoot on the grass, swinging a wooden stick in his hand. It was crude, one end thick and the other...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: Transmigrating with a System?
"You damned peasant! Daring to secretly count the apples on Lord Finn's tree—planning to steal them, are you?"
"I've been wronged, my lord! Everyone knows I can't count at all!"
"Nonsense! Talking back as well? Five lashes!"
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
"Ahhhh—! My lord, that...
96 AG
The sky was already choked with ash when the first fireball landed. Jian flinched as the heat tore into the front line ahead of him, dirt and flame vomiting into the air, pieces of armor and bodies tossed about like broken toys.
His ears rang from the blast, and through the haze, he...
Chapter One
As the sun dipped below the horizon, the desert sands turned to molten gold in the dying light. Elissa pushed the creaking stove door closed, a faint hiss escaping as the heat met the cool evening air. Inside, slices of roasted dustjackal meat sizzled—a rare treat for the night's...
“-Damnit!”
I hiss as I stumble, nearly rolling my ankle as what I thought was soft earth revealed itself to be a ledge. I only barely manage to catch myself, but still fall into the undergrowth. A thick layer of leaves and muck and lord knows what else covered the forest floor, still slightly...
There's nothing better than to wake up with your Mom darting around you trying to get you up for the day, her hair bright and flaming even in this heat. She grabs me and hoists me up, my overly tan skin still warm from the covers.
"Mom…" I groan, "Gimme a few more minutes…"
"No, we're on a...
Everyone knows the canonical life-story of Buffy Summers, the Sunnydale Slayer; it’s an epic tale of heroism, tragic romance, mental trauma, and survival despite often-impossible odds.
But everyone is the hero of their own life-story. Whether it’s an epic, a tragedy, or a grim warning tale with...
I hated Full Moon Bay. It was one of those places where the hopeless were sold hope for everything they had, only for that hope to turn out to be little more than a short trip to someplace else that had no use for them, except this time they didn't even have any funds to fall back on. Ever since...
Threadmarks: Falling Cherry Blossoms: Disclaimers, Cast List, and Index
Disclaimers:
1) This story is set in the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is owned by Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. It follows on from my work Controlled Circumstances, but my muse decided that (at least parts of) this had to get written first.
2) This story also incorporates...
Season 2 is when episodes got bigger.
Season 3 is when episodes started to become novellas.
It was unavoidable, I suppose. The stories were getting bigger in terms of scope. Bigger fights, new and interesting universes that had to get introduced, things to be described, etc. It's the...
Napier Airport
Napier, New Zealand
16:47, Thursday June 2, 1994
Descending from the CN-235’s front door onto the tarmac, Yukio Washimine stepped aside for the other passengers and took her first ground-level look at the city that would be her home for the next two weeks. There’s so much...
On to Season 2, aka "Where the stories all started to get bigger".
Series Pilot - "A Time for Heroes"
Season 1 - "Seeking the Past" - Complete, 432,304 words
Season 2 - "Whispers of Destiny" - Complete, 631,155 words
2-01 "A Dark Reflection" - 26,417 words
The Aurora crew...
Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings
Rain pour down from the heavens as dark gloomy clouds covered the sky, blocking out all the sun’s rays. The leaves shook with each drop pelted them, the dirt soaked and turned to mushy mud, the animals hid in their burrows or inside hollow trees to stay dry.
On...
So, before we get started, I figure I'll explain something real quick.
When I first started I really wanted to keep the episodes small. I didn't want to break 20k words per, except maybe for really big episodes with big action sequences that required a lot of description. And I managed this...
So, since I'm here, I'm going to begin re-posting the Undiscovered Frontier series I started in 2013 (specifically a "reboot" of a fanfic I was writing even before I joined SB) to QQ. With some edit fixes. It's now near the end of its third season, and that's only because of A) the two years I...
THE STORY...
On the continent of Farthias, there was once a legend of a sacred, powerful crystal that bestowed mystical powers to those it deemed worthy. However, it was soon coveted by those with malicious intentions, causing the crystal to shatter into pieces. The world soon fell into...
Abbreviations:
FCC: Firefall Cannon Character
TOC: Tiranthian Original Character (The Firefall version thereof. Tiranthia=my original universe)
OC: Original Character
SIN: Shared Intelligence Network (Firefall Earth's internet, usually accessed with a brain implant)...