Stories

Chris Ryan has hit rock bottom and started to dig. Lost in a labyrinth of pain he no longer knows how to leave, he has lost the ability to hope. How did he get here and can he get out? This is his story.

A rather dark tale, at least in the first part.

Written using Prompt 532

A journey to the centre of the mind. By clearing the mind and reconfiguring partials you can see what is truly there. Two questions. Have you completed your task? Are you actively remembering? A piece of creative interactive storytelling.

A Halloween special, and a response to prompt 457: Spiders.

After a few days’ stay on a remote and bleak island in the sea, a writer finds that the boat he arrived in has been torn from its mooring by a storm. None of the locals will take him to the mainland, afraid to brave the waters after the storm, and as he struggles to make his way home, it seems more and more as if something doesn’t want him to leave.

For almost a whole day, Jonah doesn’t really believe it. This isn’t the way people die. Not in real life. Not in suburban Greater London. People get hit by buses, they die in car crashes, they get sick—cancer, liver failure, heart disease. They don’t get stabbed walking home from a party with their lover.

Egypt has turned her back on the gods of creation. A storm of death is coming, and the rain will wash away the transgressions.

Toby is rescued after being abducted and held in horrifying conditions for years. Is it possible to heal after being broken for so long?

How does an ancient god come to be and what does religion mean?
When Ashran jumps off a cliff to save himself from ritual sacrifice, he meets The God Nergal and finds himself. And Nergal, well... A god does have to fulfil his role, doesn't he?

2006 Fall Anthology