retired by totorrl on DeviantArt “Clockwork Ambush” Rayna walked the streets overwhelmed by the sights and smells of a world not her own. Unfamiliar and foreign, panic rose in her chest like an overinflated balloon ready to pop. Smothering her. Making it hard for her to breathe. She stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, […]
Flash | Snatch and Grap
The chase by Andrei-Pervukhin on DeviantArt “Snatch and Grab” Transporting the general’s son across the plains was supposed to be the most boring duty. An easy ride. Head north toward Branton, drop off the fourteen year old brat at boarding school for the spring, then back to the front down south. He didn’t even merit more […]
Flash | “Attack of Mechopus”
SteamPunk Octopus by AlexBroeckel on DeviantArt “Attack of Mechopus” Benjak woke to an explosion of sound. A howling alarm whooping with urgency and finality. Saying, Get up or we all die. Everyday might bring Benjak’s death. A reality of hauling barrels of spice from the southern colonies all the way under and up the curving […]
Review | “Kinslayer” by Jay Kristoff
Back cover tease from Goodreads: A SHATTERED EMPIRE The mad Sh?gun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The Lotus Guild conspires to renew the nation’s broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously – by endorsing a new Sh?gun who desires […]
Review | The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when orphaned […]
Review | “Stormdancer” by Jay Kristoff
Book description from Goodreads: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far less […]
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