Category: Short Story

• June 10, 2015

  The Burning of the World

  

  Hello, my friends. Flavian Duchas here again. It has been cold in my cell these past few days and my captors have been most gracious in allowing me quill and parchment to continue my work. I can hear the birds singing and children laughing from my perch so high in this tower, but alas the […]
• May 24, 2015

  The Yard

  

  Somebody lost this journal. I think that’s why it’s here. I think that’s why all these things are here. Someone lost them. Maybe that’s why I’m here too. I’m lost. A lost soul. Whoever had this journal before probably won’t mind if I use it. It’s sturdier than papyrus and easier to carry around than […]
• May 17, 2015

  The Origin of the World

  

  Greetings, my fellow historians. It is I, Flavian Duchas, here once again to share the past with you. While my popularity has risen and fallen depending on the whims of the elites, I have not stopped my work. It is important that we not lose our history, for without knowledge of the past we are […]
• May 15, 2015

  The Hero and the Princess

  

  This is a tale as old as the world itself. The story of the Hero and the Princess. The old priest’s gaze passed over each youth that knelt before him. They had trained for years, preparing for this day. They had been chosen by fate to journey across the world in search of ancient and […]