Minutes previous we had watched from our rooftop as the sun descended behind the cities skyline; silhouetting skyscrapers across a golden horizon. Her body tensed in my arms, she was on edge, as she always was this time of night, but something in her was starkly different. “You’re going to meet him, aren’t you?” I …
Word-High July: Kinaadman
“No. No. No. What? ‘Madam Vista’s Art of Divination & Entrails: Volume 2’? Really? When did I even have Volume 1? Anyway, No. No. Look I can see the next 5 or 6 and I can tell you it isn’t any of those either!” Magister Malig sighed in exasperation as book after book floated in …
Word-High July: Makisig
Princess Solia stood at the top of large, golden stairs watching the event play out. The King and Queen had been adamant about using the ball to find her a suitor, but it was she who had insisted on a masquerade. It would be impossible to choose someone based on looks alone, but masks gave …
Word-High July: Amihan
Numari’s ears twitched with the sounds of the jungle as she mentally catalogued the animals around. Monkeys chattering at each other, a play fight breaking out… A near silent splash of an Alligator entering the river after a bankside nap… Wings taking flight, too light to be a bird, a butterfly then… Nothing was too out …
Word-High July: Habilin
In the past she had often visited him, keeping him company whilst he fished along the river bed. She would turn up just after the sun was highest, dancing along the ripples as though made purely of air. Her teal skin would glisten like wet scales, but she was always smooth as silk to touch, and her cerulean …
Word-High July: Paraluman
It was her bright, blue eyes which caught his attention first; none of the other girls had quite a striking gaze. There was just something about the way she looked at him, with eyes like rarest sapphires, or tropical lagoons, that excited his very soul. If he were a painter, he would capture them there, on …
Word-High July: Kaulayaw
By the time Ahnah got back to the hut the sun had long set below the horizon. The wind had been picking up for hours now and the snow was only getting worse; even with her fur lined coat cocooned around her the air sent shivers along her bones. Luckily for Ahnah, she could see the …
Word-High July: Marahuyo
The tent of the High Shaman was the largest of the entire village; its dark, tanned hide contrasting against the almost white sand of its back drop. As though being adorned with skulls and runes wasn't foreboding enough, to reach it visitors had to climb the winding, wooden steps above the Bone Pit to reach its …
Word-High July: Siping
She needed to scream. All at once, and seemingly out of nowhere, everything piled on top of her; it was getting too much. How did life become so unknown? she thought. One day she had it all planned out, everything was going smoothly and running to her schedule, the next... Well, it was just hurdle after …
Word-High July: Balintataw
"This way!" Shouted Penny, bounding over the rocky terrain with ease. She'd walked this route many times both alone and with her Mother, but this was the first time she had ever brought Daniel along. "Hold on" Daniel panted, sweat dripping off his face and neck. He had decided his grey tshirt had been a …
Clockwork Clouds 