Stars
Quietly shift amongst the stars, brittle enamel creaking soundlessly. Hundreds of little metal eyes quest for sights in their brass sockets, gazing out at…
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26 stories written on Ficly, 2010–2012, shared under CC BY-SA 3.0. Their page on ficly.com
Ten
Laugh as the world burns, the Lord of Mind who lurks in the outside, clear eyes looking in. Smile constantly as the world starts to crack around the edges, the…
Gone Hunting, Back In Five Hours
The Lord of Wild moves silently through the trees, slipping across the ground like a greased shadow. Its yellow eyes give off a faint light in the gloom…
Nine
Lost and alone, away from my kind, away from my world. The hatred of the Thirteen is the only thing that keeps me alive. The banished Lord of Smoke, the one…
Eight
A fallen demon from a Hell more hellish. An imposing figure, long horns, red eyes and leathery wings. Sharp teeth glistening around an ever-present smile, like…
Seven
Creep and skitter, weave my web, decieve, entrance, capture. The three eyes peering from the gloom, the rush of pain and the sound of it all melting away.…
Six
Lord of Blood, cape swirling in the eternal wind, ruler of the night. Style, substance and a widow’s peak. Styled after the bloodsuckers of old, in reality a…
Five
I am the man with no eyes. The Lord of Sight. Fifth of the children. I bridge the chasam between the world we came from and the world in which we hope to…
Four
I tend my garden alone, growing plants that I tend to prove I am sane. I can break minds with a gesture, but flowers have none to break. My endless smile is…
Two and Three
We move together, Panic and Chaos, the second and third of the children. We lead the scouts, the assasins, the ones that cause people opposed to us to be dead…
One
The beginning of the universe reflects from my eyes, last echoes of dead stars blur across my vision. I am the greatest of the gods of pain, ruler of all I…
Aurora lucis
The last thing you remember is the thing in flames, falling, dying and screaming. Being banished. It doesn’t matter any more. You open your eyes. No psychopomp…
Deep in the dark and the cold
Teeth glinting in the pale light from luminous eyes. The relentless creak of the machines and the sounds of distant screams in the darkness. Laughter and…
Quieter Than Silence
It’s that noise again. It grates against my sanity, flickering flames against the sounds of my mind. It’s always here. It cannot be stopped, lest the sound…
Fire
Fire is a beautiful thing. I always cultivated it where I could, wherever I found it. Forests, houses, cities all felt the touch of loving fire. The gentle…
An interesting confrontation
Hunt, kill, cease. Power sensed. Not in the present. Wait. Look. *End it.* _What is this creature, this abomination doing here? It is not supposed to be here…
Gnarts Trimeskalion
Immortality gets tedious after the first few hundred cycles. By then, you’ll be a crotchety old man in a body far too young for you. _Fighting in a war you…
Formless
It exists. The only thing it knows is hate. It is the Formless. It can move faster than thought, faster than anything on Geos. It cannot die, for it is the…
The Hollow God
Present at the beginning, we shall be present at the end. Twisted hunk of metal in semblance of life, robe of steel wrapped around nothing. Older than cities…
Time was fixed - 3
The cold encroaches on my thoughts. It is troubling. I speed back and forth along the timelines, seeking the source of my trouble. But the device must be…