Science Fiction short story - 2015 Two men stood sit before a round stone table, one facing another, both dressed in hooded and smudged robes that once might have been white. A large window revealed the infinity of the desert that extended beyond the stone walls. ‘So, Brother Malcolm’ invited the elder one, ‘do tell … Continue reading 127

IIII The Temple of the Provider on Vamperstad stood atop a snow-covered hill, like all other temples in Zhedra. In its surroundings, the soil was not damped in white and grass grew steadily thanks to the heat of the deity. The temple was also closed to everyone else but the priests and other members of … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble – Chapter 5

III That night, young Sindha had the most strange dream. She dreamed of her father wandering alone in the woods. Heavily equipped for the relentless cold, eyes fixed on nothingness and with the face of a desperate man. He had come to an unattended crypt in the middle of a place where the trees were … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble – Chapter 4

II “It’s exactly what I’ve told ye”, said one of the surviving sailors of the Breezy Jack, pointing a crooked finger to Hayden. “He ran through the deck like a wolf and faced the fiend head-on!” A crowd of crew members from the vessel Wayfarer - which had timely come to the rescue of the … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble – Chapter 3

Hi Everyone! On this International Women's Day I present to you the third chapter of The Wizard's Gamble online! It has not much to say about the occasion, but what matters is the intention, right? Er... Maybe not... Anyway, you can read it here: https://tnwriting.com/2020/01/15/the-wizards-gamble-chapter-iii/ Or read the story from the beginning here More chapters … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble: new chapter online!

I “That’s the work of the Cold, I tell you”, commented the bearded guard named Karlto, who “That’s the work of the Cold, I tell you”, commented the bearded guard named Karlto, whom Hayden met on board the Breezy Jack as the seafaring vessel cruised through the glaciers that conglomerated around the foggy coast of … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble – Chapter 2

The Wizard's Gamble, the first part of the series The Conjurer, is online and available for everyone to read right here on this site. Access the full story on the correspondent tab above or even more directly by clicking here If you have been following me on Twitter, you already know that this is a … Continue reading The Wizard’s Gamble is online!

Hayden considers himself to be a cursed man, living a tough life on a land cursed with an unrelenting cold weather, he curses his small portion of luck for having vanished completely when his only daughter was chosen to be sacrificed to the deity that rules over Zedhra. Alone and powerless, he tries to change … Continue reading The Conjurer Update

Greetings Everyone! For all the Dark Fantasy readers out there who enjoy reading their stories for free (yes, I mean really free) then this Christmas will gift you with the beginning of a chilly tale about Death, the Dead and those who are between them. More news will be coming very soon.