Tag: Short Story
-
Take a Horse to Water
Felm loved his job as a horseherd. He had four horses to look after, which he did so very well. He kept them groomed, fed and watered and they loved him in return for it. Unfortunately, the great storm hit the homestead one Summer night. The drinking well was struck by lightning, with everywhere else…
-
Birth of a Hero
I sit and look at the blank screen in front of me, thoughts racing in anticipation of the words I will eventually fill it with; I ponder the location, the weather, the people. Ah, the people! I want – no, need – a new type of hero… he has to be male, strong, human (human…
-
The Unicorn Challenge: Lawman
1652. The country is getting back to normal after nine years of civil war, not that the residents of Lumdy noticed anything different. Suffering from their self-imposed exclusion from the rest of the region due to their mini Plague outbreak, most of the villagers were gaunt, withdrawn and lawless. They thought nothing of helping themselves…
-
The Unicorn Challenge: The Expedition
Doctor Livingtosh looked over to his companion, Master Matlock Baines, who’d only ever so slightly lost his moustachioed proper Victorian appearance in the scuffle with the mysterious El Bango tribe they’d accidentally stumbled across deep in the middle of the Jungle Rainforest. ‘I say, my good fellow,’ the doctor said cheerfully as he hung, hands…
-
Out In The Open
‘We won, Ognar… we won…’ Myrtle clutched the (rather oversized) Great Chicken Run trophy as she beamed from ear to ear (with reference to the ears on her head, and not those on her own one of its kind blouse she created and was wearing), ‘no longer are we the laughing stock of the street!’…
The Mansionic Perspective 