Fantasy
Imaginative scenarios, supernatural encounters, dream worlds
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Treatment Room Six
The cooling wards in this place are a joke when you’re looking at me like I’m a cold beer after a July ruck.
Did You Think the Snow Would Save Us?
I am tracing the blue-black ink of the runes on your forearm and wondering if the ROI on this mistake is worth the fallout.
I Thought You Hated These Parties
I can feel the exact moment the ice hit your tongue because my own mouth suddenly tastes like bitter gin and cold iron.
Wet Ash
I could feel the condensation from her glass dripping onto my thigh, a cold, sharp contrast to the way her thumb was tracing my hip.
Gideon's Cufflink
He smelled like the cold iron of the High Seat and the particular, ozone-heavy static that preceded a total collapse of the Sunder.
---unless you want the rain to start again
Her palm was a flat, hot weight against my sternum, and for a second I forgot how to breathe, how to be anything but clay.
Drink the Salt
His hand was heavy on the small of my back, a grounding weight that felt less like an invitation and more like an anchor.
The Nicked Edge of a Silver Flask
She didn’t just sing; she pulled the oxygen out of the room and replaced it with something that tasted like copper and old secrets.
I Still Have the Contact Sheets
She stood there in that ridiculous desert light, smelling like expensive sage and cheap gin, waiting for me to fail at being professional.
Why Is Your Hand Still Shaking?
The taste of her anger was exactly like a burnt roux—bitter, clinging to the back of my throat, impossible to scrape away.
The Alchemist's Shadow in the Glass
In a city built on illusions, two strangers discover a raw, visceral magic that threatens to shatter the night.