Storyfeather
Episodes
The Isle of Mist and Gloom
26 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm going to bring her back." "It is folly to defy death," his father said. "It is folly to accept death, when it comes for the wrong person." A y...
Dragonfly
19 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The gate swung open with a high wail. Razim swapped curious looks with Sidregar. They paced into the city, scanning the streets for an open inn. ...
The Mirror of Liriope
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mirrors are not to be trifled with. What dangers could there possibly be from gazing into a mirror? Find out in this episode of the Storyfeather po...
Mages, Thieves, and Destroyers
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The mages could not have been foolish enough to leave their greatest treasure unguarded. What does a mage, a thief, and a destroyer have in common?...
The Ghostly Knight of Thessa
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the past fortnight, we two had been tracking the whereabouts of the mysterious rider who was said to guard the roads in and out of Thessa, a major...
Phantom Heart
28 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
He glanced at the organ behind layers of glass and smiled even wider. A beating heart. An artificial heart. And he had helped to create it, desi...
The Bard of Trilenkary
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the land of his own making, the one that abided in his heart and his head, he was a bard. In truth, he was a rice man, one of the best in Trilenk...
Thirteen
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I am the last. The only one left. We are defeated. If I can't do what I need to do now, what they need me to do now, we are defeated. The pressur...
The Promethians
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
They're a lot like us. The Promethians. That's not what they call themselves, but I could never really pronounce (or spell) the proper word, so I ...
Salamander
07 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jane knew about the salamander. The salamander was capable of regenerating its limbs, to a certain degree. As such, it had been studied by scienti...
The Scorpion Mouse
31 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Perrimin and his closest friend Kicker, whose given name was Siminor, were both behind the rock that was too small to hide either of them, both watchi...
The Dreaming Queen
24 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the queen of Callimoray was still a princess, she was schooled in all the ways a princess should be schooled. The skill of sums and the skill o...
Diamond White
17 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We were inseparable once, my sister and I. We shared everything. My mother said we were so close, that we even shared a heart. Two sisters livi...
The Water Bell
10 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The royal city was known throughout the kingdom because it was home to a most famous—and most infamous object—a cursed bell. The Water Bell, som...
Argilla
03 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
She came awake then and someone clicked on her bedside light. "I've got amazing news for you. We found a donor match for your liver. It's being ...
Vela Natura
24 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vela Valora was the sailor's name. She was proud of her heritage and longed for the day her name would earn its place among the records of heroes an...
The Sorceress Moray
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Her memory of being a Fury was gone, but Furies are strong and full of cosmic force. A Fury is a woman and a dragon is a man? Is anything as it s...
The Everwalker
10 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Once there was a girl named Florisse whose greatest dream was to find and marry her true love. One morning when she woke, she found upon the floor o...
Pertempus
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I knew it was going to happen. I remember that I came awake and heard him tossing and turning. We still shared a room then, even though I was too ...
I'm Vanishing
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I'm vanishing. Maybe I'm not vanishing. Maybe I just think I am. How would you respond if parts of you began to vanish? Find out how one perso...
The Saltwater Realm
20 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In those days, there were four realms. The realm of airs or spirits, inhabited by the Holy. The realm of fires, inhabited by immortal creatures cr...
The Potion of Allegory
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
My name is Perry Verdilay. In a single act of reckless desperation, I changed my perception of the world. And maybe gave myself a condition, a cur...
Radwin and the Dragon
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, he stalked among the villagers at their smithies and spinning wheels. He haunted their dreams with the fear of his ever-growing appet...
The Amber God
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the middle of the forest sat a stone hut, and always from this hut came the scent of amber. Within the hut there lived what the nearby villagers be...
A Gildenfaere's Gift
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We called them the Gildenfaere. The golden horse-birds. Once there were thousands upon the earth and in the skies. On the earth they galloped an...
The Three Circles
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Not long ago, there was a rich land ruled by an assembly of three known as a Triarch. Always there were three. One had a claim of blood. One was...
Trifle House
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ignoring the sounds of sizzling and the smell of cooking flesh and the searing heat, she closed her eyes and cast her memory back to the day they came...
Spidercake
09 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening after the night of the full moon, the messenger who had been sent to find help approached the Third Village with a small force from one...
Heliotrope
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We designed it so that it would follow the sun, follow the light. And I thought we too were designed that way. I don't know now. I don't know what to ...
The Great Machines
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The last Great Machine is dying. We don't know how to fix it. We don't even know what it does. We only know that when it dies, we too will die. What w...
The Iolyran Serpent
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The colossal serpent hatched from an egg in my brother's keeping. It almost killed him as it burst out, unfolding coil after coil, slithering through ...
Godsfear
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In those days, there were many gods ruling over many realms. Some realms were ruled by just and jolly gods. Some by stern and distant gods. The southe...
The Wandering Star
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It watches me with those strange eyes. Even you, love, cannot imagine such eyes. This is the third night I have been assigned to watch it—him, I'll ...
Nine Hundred Nine Furies
28 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are only three now. Once, there were nine hundred and nine. They were the army of the gods. They were vengeance on black wings. They were scourg...
Death and the Healer
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Once, long ago in an almost forgotten age, there lived a healer of great skill and great compassion. Her name was Gwenmir, but she was known as the he...
The Belly of Boston
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When the baby boy was born, he was fine and healthy, but though he ate ravenously of his mother's milk, he began to lose weight. His swarthy complexio...
Imberflos
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Northern Star that guides those who are lost from sky to earth to ocean was born of a flower. So was the giant Scorpion, the Herald of Death, who ...
Storyfeather Podcast Coming Soon!
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nila will be narrating her original short fiction in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, fairy tale, mystery, and mythology in the upcomin...