Week - 599
Two Dozen Black Dresses: Part One by emblo93 |
Description: Prigpants and Swolthy, Tailors. The name of the store meant many things to many people: to some, it was a portent of funerals; to others, it was a sign of galas to come. To Marius Finchley, Lackey, it was a harbinger of dreadful tidings... |
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Week - 600
Two Dozen Black Dresses: Part Two by emblo93 |
Description: To run was an impossibility. The idea of running, of fleeing from the scene as fast his short legs would take him was certainly a reality to Marius, but the act itself was as impossible as if he had wished to sprout wings and fly away. |
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Week - 601
Two Dozen Black Dresses: Part Three by emblo93 |
Description: "Sal, it's more than just the dresses! I just know that the Baron's up to something!" |
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Week - 602
Two Dozen Black Dresses: Part Four by emblo93 |
Description: "Yes, he and his Mynci counterpart managed to sew the dresses quite to specification. Although there is a minor matter of a Kyrii apprentice to attend to." |
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Week - 603
Two Dozen Black Dresses: Part Five by emblo93 |
Description: A frightened squawk came from the office followed by a sharp clearing of a throat. These two interjections were followed by a flow of honey oozing through the air. "Mr. Finchley, you're here." |
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Week - 604
Terror at 20,000,000 Feet by emblo93 |
Description: "Please, everyone! I need you to listen to me!" It was no use. The Ogrin would not be heard. As Stale came to this realization, his stomach slowly sank. Something horrible was coming, and he was the only one who knew. |
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Week - 606
A Letter to the Editor by emblo93 |
Description: When I was young, I was told stories of the Sway, as were we all. "Run along, little Aloysius, or the Sway will gobble you up." |
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Week - 607
He Died A Long Time Ago by emblo93 |
Description: The Chia halted at the outermost edge of the forest. The Dark Woods, as they were known, had a reputation for being haunted; pets went in who never came out again, or so the stories went. |
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Week - 609
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part One by emblo93 |
Description: Mephistopheles R. Pufferton was not given to waking up before the sun. He believed that a late riser was a healthy riser, and he argued this point every morning after he had been woken up slightly before luncheon. |
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Week - 610
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Two by emblo93 |
Description: "No, see, that's the thing. I don't want that one. I want the one with the captain of the pirates. You know? The scary Lupe? Remember when he was messing around with Maraqua?"
"...Are you sure you don't mean the one with the attacking pirates? That stamp is quite popular." |
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Week - 611
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Three by emblo93 |
Description: The guests had gone home with nothing on their lips but tales of the previous night's burglary. It was said by at least two gentlemen that Mr. Pufferton had engaged in fisticuffs with the rapscallion and come away with a black eye. |
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Week - 612
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Four by emblo93 |
Description: "There is a clue somewhere within these pages. Something in here is valuable enough to cause a Grarrl to risk several years locked up in some foul dungeon. It is up to us, now, to figure out what it is and where." |
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Week - 613
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Five by emblo93 |
Description: Mr. Pufferton yawned, a deep, gasping noise. It was a foghorn in a mine, echoing and vibrating throughout all the earth. "I am a connoisseur of the mystery novel, that is all." |
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Week - 614
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Six by emblo93 |
Description: "It's very tidy, Puffs, but what about Harlan?" |
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Week - 615
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Seven by emblo93 |
Description: "That must be us leaving port," he noted. "This, then, is the point of no return." |
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Week - 616
Mr. Pufferton and the Last Magazine: Part Eight by emblo93 |
Description: Resolved to rescue his incapacitated master, Argyle set out on a rampage of sorts, happening upon crew members of the Cheesy Pete and defeating them in pugilistic combat. |
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Week - 616
And Oh! How They Danced by emblo93 |
Description: "Find her! He's only got a few more hours..." |
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Week - 618
The Greatest Trick the World Has Ever Seen by emblo93 |
Description: It was, as the banner put it, the 6th Annual Little Babinny Halloween Festival, a time of tricking, treating, and all manner of spooking. |
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Week - 623
Fallen, Fallen by emblo93 |
Description: "The older among you will have felt it, and the younger may well have heard the whispers. The faeries are gone. Faerieland is falling." |
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Week - 625
The Crusaders of Kindness: Day of Giving by emblo93 |
Description: Three days before the Day of Giving, the bi-monthly meeting of the Crusaders of Kindness took place in Mr. Arnold Fairtree's living room. |
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Week - 627
6W448JLM00 by emblo93 |
Description: The rules of the contest were vague and unhelpful and, as Harold suspected, probably deliberately so. |
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Week - 632
Valentine: A Cautionary Tale by emblo93 |
Description: Our story begins on a cold day, blustery and wintery as it is wont to be during the month of Awakening. |
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Week - 634
The Devil Went Down to Neovia by emblo93 |
Description: Before me, there's a blue mass, a ghost with eyes as red as a ruby apple. He glares menacingly at me and turns his attention to the Fyora doll in the chair. I know who he is... it's the Pant Devil! |
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Week - 756
A Father's Love by emblo93 |
Description: It was a Sunday. Sundays were special for the two of them and always had been. The rest of the week was taken up by school, by work, by meetings and playdates and things that were just for them. But Sunday was special. Sunday was their day. |
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Week - 768
Love is Patient by emblo93 |
Description: She was done talking, then, but I stayed silent. Did I love her then? I think I did. But love was patient, and so was I. If she didn’t say anything, then neither would I. And I didn’t. And she didn’t. |
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