Making sense of the world one book at the time
Berserker To kill, that was to exist. I was made for nothing else than to rip off people’s spines and crush them in front of their comrades, blood dripping between my massive fingers. I was a thing…
Hero You have always been small, so small that no one has taken you seriously. They never thought you would amount to anything, laughing at your attempts to join all their adventures. They left you…
Poppy Universes are made for organisms. They are made for the small and the giants. They are made for red poppy fields and the deserts with their mines, for the stars and the lawfulness and lawless…
Jungle The space was supposed to be empty. That was the deal humans made with the universe when they started colonizing other planets to spread out and mine. So it had been for centuries. People go…
Weaver Everyone in the city has their own destiny. So it was meant to go. Until there was a weaver. One who could take that destiny everywhere they wanted, and one would never know their path was a…
Cub The paths we take zigzag through the labyrinth of existence. They entwine with every lifeline that exists at the same point in time. You know that. You have always had it in your heart. Heart f…
Mine The thousand planet. The dark, pitted mining channels swirl underneath you, with all the lost souls trapped in there. You are their goddess. Their protector. You were chosen for the role when …
Ants It was a simple choice to be made: to exist or not to exist. I made those choices every day. Sometimes more successfully, and other times not so much. This was one of those times I made a mist…
Rich They set the limits to be rich. I wasn’t one of them. Or I didn’t use to be. But you can do wondrous things with creativity. Intelligence isn’t a must. AI handles that. But with genuine, surpr…
North Star The history of my people has always been on this island. We have always belonged to its volcanic mountains, its coconut trees, and its little hideaways. I crew up running around the tall…
Hungry She had never known where she came from, what people she was made of. She had studied her face so many times, looking over every spot, every curve, every plumb thing, squeezed them, measured…
Heist A good story is about the setup, the struggle, and almost always about death. Death gives meaning to the now, to the one, to meaning. And he had a whole lot of meaning to have. Gods were made…
Wave The city had been bombed to the ground. The once vibrant streets were now a death trap. I kept my gun ready as I advanced at the back of my battalion. I dared to glance at the fallen buildings…
Hunter Dust was everywhere. It seemed to be the only constant in the universe, both inside and outside. It filled every nook and cranny. You could feel it amassing in your boots, wiggling its way b…
ALT I Want To Read All The Books So Many Books GIF
Jasmine See, a perfect tea is made with hot water and patience. Some might say there’s no time in the world for such patience, for tea. But I would argue that a perfect cup can transform a person. …
Mutiny She had always thought mutinies happened out on the sea and not on a church bike ride to nature, but here she was in the middle of the biggest argument of her life. She was defending her cho…
Instant She had been gifted a curse, a punishment for looking past the old woman and not helping her. She had been changed into a cat. A white one. The most despised by the feline kind. Yet, she wa…
Gargoyle The fast-flowing city poured down the cobblestones to the small harbor next to the canals. There, people and things swirled onward. Only at night did the constant swirl come to a halt, and…
Empire The slow, nimble dance of the fingers against the thin paper. The scribed text and then the messengers shooting out of the building made the empire. The returned papers told the tale of the …