Where Words Create Worlds
These stories are fictional but contain many truths within them.We encourage the love of words here with new stories, book reviews, and writing tips.
Therapist never expected their clients monster would be real. Photo by Yaopey Yong
Read more“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
– John Champion Gardner
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“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” - John Champion Gardner
Grand Plans
Time was running out. If Vigil couldn’t find the way in before midnight the USA was going to have a rough month. A bit of an understatement, but it was still hard for Vigil to believe Nancy’s information. It didn’t seem realistic. But Recluse was fond of discovering a...
A Cat’s Tail
Friskens here. I don't normally meow a diary, but I have words that need to be expressed. You ever have that feeling that a part of your body acts with a mind of its own? Unless you're a cat, you are imagining things. You see, although a cat's tail doesn't have...
Read more“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle
The Other View
Alabaster arrived on scene to find exactly what he feared. Environmentalists. The wizard marched up to the tree, wand at the ready. There were two of them. They had somehow altered a mending spell, of all things, to merge the skin of their backs to the bark of...
The Taste of Luck
“Mellany! We got another one.” Jack called from the register. After washing the dough off her hands Mellany took a breath of warm yeast air and pasted a smile on her face. She pushed through the door to the front room and faced her next customer. The...
Read more“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Muse
I can’t believe I made that call. It was a stupid idea. One made in the wet desperation of a broken dream while the night watched on in silent laughter. I sat up in bed. That wasn’t half bad actually. Maybe a bit poetic, but at least it had feeling. Too many of...