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Thoughts Running...
I'm not sure what I'm going to say, or if I'm going to make any sense, my thoughts are running... so I'm going to let them run. Run like the wind in the hopes they'll take off and soar through the skies, my heart is grounded, turning slowly to stone. So something at least must run so why not my... -
Into the Darkness: Chapter 3
Into the Darkness: Chapter Two - Previous Chapter Chapter 3 The night was thick with haze and heat when Damien reached the source of the sound — a heartbeat of bass rising from the cracked pavement like something alive. The club’s sign sputtered in red neon: The Velvet Spine. It hissed...- Nemo
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Into the Darkness: Chapter 2
Into the Darkness: Chapter One - Previous Chapter Chapter 2. Damian moved through the city like a shadow unpinned from its master, the storm swallowing him whole. He knew this was not the place he was meant to be—the signs he sought were absent—but still he wandered, drawn by the pull of...- Nemo
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Into the Darkness
Chapter One. In the chapel of rest, where moonlight spilled through stained glass and painted the Virgin in spectral hues, a figure lingered in the shadows. He stood watch over the coffin of a young woman. Her skin, pale as winter porcelain, gleamed beneath the fractured beams of light. Dark...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 46
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 45 - Previous Chapter Chapter 46: Sorrow The battlefield had gone quiet. Smoke curled in the air, carrying the bitter tang of ash and iron. Vivi and Tivor lay still among the fallen. With slow, deliberate steps, the soldiers moved forward. Their shields clattered...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 45
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 44 - Previous Chapter Chapter 45: Time The morning broke pale and bitter over Edena. Across the plain, ten thousand soldiers advanced in grim ranks, their armour clattering like rolling thunder. From the walls, the defenders watched, silent, their breaths white in...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 44
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 43 - Previous Chapter Chapter 44: Hoard The cave released them into the pale light of morning. Mist clung to the lake like smoke, curling upward into the teeth of the mountains. Elqiana crouched low in the clearing, her scales cool and gleaming, her wings arched...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 43
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 42 - Previous Chapter Chapter 43: Marching Two thousand soldiers moved as one down the winding road, three abreast, a column of iron and flesh that stretched farther than the eye could hold. The ground trembled beneath the synchronised thunder of four thousand...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 42
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 41 - Previous Chapter Chapter 42: Thorns The air rippled with tension in Edena. Guards paced along the parapets, their eyes sweeping the horizon for any hint of movement, any sign that the uneasy calm might break. Elvina walked gracefully atop the walls, her steps...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 41
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 40 - Previous Chapter Chapter 41: Rescue Tarasque sat astride Elqiana’s broad, pearl-white back, her fingers gripping the smooth pommel of the saddle as the dragon’s wings unfurled like silk. Snowy, the were-cat, curled in her lap like a living compass, her golden...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 40
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 39 - Previous Chapter Chapter 40: Smelly Nekira had ridden his chestnut bay mare, Myrtle, for over a week. His old companions, Santaya and Kristolia, followed close behind, their steady presence a comfort on the long road. The bond with Amira still lingered faintly...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 39
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 38 - Previous Chapter Chapter 39: Date The clearing lay tucked between willow trees, their long silver leaves brushing the surface of a narrow stream that gurgled softly over smooth stones. Sunlight dappled through the canopy, painting the grass with shifting...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 38
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 37 - Previous Chapter Chapter 38: Ghostly In the middle of the Delphinian Swamps, a camp lingered where no camp should be. Captain Jason Moore and his men had been trapped there for two decades, bound by a curse none of them understood. If they strayed too far from...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 37
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 36 - Previous Chapter Chapter 37: Found The cell was damp and cold, the stone slick beneath her fingertips. Shadows pooled in the corners like stagnant water, and the metallic tang of rusted chains hung in the air. She sat cross-legged against the wall, eyes...- Nemo
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Late Night Thoughts
So hear I am, sat here in my squeaky rickety chair, staring at the same four walls like usual, when a thought comes across my mind, as thought's do when I can't sleep, the usual questions like the who what where how why when scenarios. Who am I? What will I achieve in life? Where will I end up... -
The Journey, Book 2: Chapter 36
The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 34 - Previous Chapter I had another chapter in mind, I however couldn't share it on here, because it may well have gone against the rules of the forums/site. I still have the chapter written down, and should I ever decide to get these books published that chapter 35...- Nemo
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The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 34
The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 33 - Previous Chapter Chapter 34: Nekira! Nekonata stretched, reaching from his toes to the tips of his fingers as his wolf companions, Santaya and Kristolia, lounged in the shade of an ancient tree. Nearby, Amira, his orange-and-purple-scaled dragon, arched her...- Nemo
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My Weird Brain...
My weird brain wonders what life would be like if I had the freedom to fly anywhere I please like Superman, would people accept me and welcome me into their cultures, would that alone help me battle against the never ending loneliness I constantly feel? Would I find a new home, a place where I... -
The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 33
The Journey, Book 2; Chapter 32 - Previous Chapter Chapter 33: Unexpected The wind hissed softly past Tara’s ears as Elqiana’s vast wings beat a steady rhythm through the skies, each down stroke carrying them further across the emerald sweep of the forests below. The raven, Loki, perched...- Nemo
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Frustration of Two
My attempt at writing a complete narrative, about two random people meeting full of sexual frustration, depending on what you all think, I might make it into a complete writing project, let me know... The collision happened in slow motion... or at least that's how it felt to her after-ward. One...- Nemo
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