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Submitted to Contest #69
The sight of the quaint castle style like home swimming in an ocean of blooming flowers wasn't even the most pecuilar part of her trip to the land of the Fae so far, it was the smell. The air was so sickly sweet that it practically clung to her like a second skin.Back at home, life was neat...elegant. Everything had a purpose and a place in society, here...it was a chaotic mess of sensory overload. The Elvish lands just like their peoples were known across the Kingdoms for their refined culture and the incredible grace of it's peoples. Home ...
Submitted to Contest #68
It had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same and to be honest she wasn't sure if that was for the better or for the worst. After running away from her homeland nearly a quarter of a century before she had only returned at her father's intense insistence...it was time to face the music she had been fleeing so hard from. Her brother's selfish abdication a mere few months before had meant that Anastasia was now the only heir to the Elvish throne, a title that seemed to only grow heavier the longe...
"Please, your majesty. My family needs me to do this, they need the money or we aren't going to survive this Winter." As much as it pained her to rely on someone so heavily...she didn't have a choice and deep down she knew she was making the right decision, even if it was a trickiest decision she had ever had to make. She was intelligent and tactile enough to make it in the Royal army...and what she lacked in strength she made up for in speed and passion. Only the shrewd observations of the young crown prince had gotten her into this c...
Neon tendrils in shades of crimsons, tangerine's, salmon's and honey weaved seamlessly together in a flawless tapestry as a new beginning whispered on the distant horizon. Before her, hundreds of cockatoos flocked together like a white sail as they celebrated the dawning of another day. The crisp dewy air of another Spring morning had her inhaling deeply as she looked out across the glass like surface of the lake, it's navy surface set alight in the brilliant colouring of the approaching dawn. The moment, however fleeting and seemingly insig...
Submitted to Contest #66
The crisp white form laying neatly on the plastic clipboard she had been given stared at her mockingly as the tiny seeds of doubt within her began to sprout. Every single part of her clashed with her current environment...from the pristine cream colour scheme of the room to the immaculately dressed people surrounding her. Neatly manicured hands filled out their forms with smug expressions, they knew their place in the world...life had been handed to them on a silver platter. They were sure of their gifts, whether it be physical, intelle...
"It doesn't count if you're already planning your defeat...you might as well go back home and accept your future now Charlie." Her unruly amber curls began to smack her roughly in the face as the infamous winds of the mountain region started up once again. The season was ending and if she didn't take this opportunity now...the young woman knew that by the time the next Autumn rolled around she would be married off to some other young man from the farming region, it was just how things were done and had been for hundreds of years. Sighing in ...
Submitted to Contest #65
Heightened senses and cheap, inscipuous apartments weren't a good combination when it came down to Jenny's attempts to have a somewhat relaxing evening. After moving for the 6th time in the space of as many months she should have been used to the process by now...especially considering that she had been repeating this process for over two millenia. Eternally stuck in the body of a mid twenty year old Scandanavian woman she was constantly on the run...especially from time itself. Her original family had passed away over two thousand yea...
Agitated beeping, like an insolent child's cries roughly pulled Erica from her slumber as she smacked at her wrist sporadically...attempting to stop the incessant noise pollution. Glancing around quickly, she took note of her surroundings before diverting her attention back to the still beeping appliance as her mind slowly but surely eased itself awake. According to the neon green numbers currently illuminating the watch's dark surface, it was almost evening...which meant that if she didn't hustle she would be, not suprisingly, late on...
Submitted to Contest #64
How was Elaria expected to explain to her sister's steady long term boyfriend about his girlfriend's mysterious and sudden illness? ' Her time of the month' didn't quite cover it and they were close enough that he could tell it wasn't just the common cold or a fleeting stomach bug. After her insistence that he take her back to her family home instead of a hospital he thankfully obliged...if somewhat reluctantly. Seated in the Gazebo overlooking their expansive country estate, Elaria nervously wound her ebony hair tightly around her fing...
Submitted to Contest #57
“ You are going to be attending the audition and that’s the end of it. I don’t want to hear another word about it...you are a Leole. A Leole!” Her grandmother’s voice reached that high, shrieky tone that always made her erupt in goosebumps, something only her grandmother and her mother could do to her. Even the high pitched nasal voices of her stereotypical engineer classmates couldn’t irritate her the way her family members could.That’s all her life was lately...either avoiding arrogant young male engineers with the personalities of wet pap...
Submitted to Contest #56
Alexander knew that this would just be another mindless date with a shallow girl pretending to be a woman, perhaps they were physically adults but he knew emotionally and mentally they were all but children...it made these experiences all the more frustrating for him. He was going to be King of the Summer Court, a court already scorned by the other kingdoms thanks to his father’s somewhat relaxed ruling style and infidelity towards his mother. His court’s reputation couldn’t afford to be dragged down any further, especially via shallow and s...
Submitted to Contest #55
Swami rubbed at the glittery tattoo that marked the underside of her right wrist, the faintly shimmering celtic symbol iridescent in the pale morning pre-dawn light. She felt almost like a guilty teenager, yet instead of sneaking in late she was sneaking out early...the exact opposite. The irony of this was not lost on her and she found herself smirking as she silently dropped from the 2nd floor balcony, landing softly as she headed up the silent street towards the local Botanic gardens. The gardens were eerily majestic at this time of mor...
Submitted to Contest #54
The fizzy feeling in her stomach solidified as Monica stepped off the train and inhaled the familiar scents of her childhood. It had been 3 years since she had left this place. Three years of working her butt off to get high distinctions at university. Three years of barely sleeping as she worked 2 jobs on top of full time uni just to pay her rent and eat. On one hand it had all paid off...she had secured a job at Cisco as a part of the sustainable technology team and would be heading off to the Amazon in less than 6 weeks to work on a proje...
Submitted to Contest #53
It was at times live these that Kristian’s homesickness reached an intensity in which he could actually feel physical pain. It wasn’t that the pain was agonising, just a dull ache...like the final stages of a cold that you just can’t shake. He had survived his contract so far by keeping busy all the time, while this was easy on the farm it was as soon as he clocked off that his thoughts returned. He tried to socialise with the locals yet despite their friendliness they clearly saw him as an outsider and he didn’t make it any easier with his ...
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