This is part seven in my Astral Mage serial. Continues from The Queen last week! The horses were saddled and ready in the courtyard when Artemuse and the Queen reached the stables. Artemuse gulped when she saw Mirage, a gigantic beast of a black stallion. The Royal Crest on his saddle gleamed, a flash of […]
Flash Fiction
#FridayFlash – The Queen
This is part six in my Astral Mage serial, following on from The Roost last week! Artemuse sailed across the palace courtyard and dropped neatly through an open window into the throne room. She landed on a torch bracket high in the ceiling and looked down, expecting to see guards or courtiers fawning over the […]
#FridayFlash – The Roost
This follows on from last week’s flash, The Sleeping Army. Artemuse followed the passage, and it didn’t take her long to realise that it coiled upward in a tight spiral. She had no idea where the vaal’kyr roost would be, but it didn’t surprise her that winged creatures might prefer to live above the city, […]
#FridayFlash – The Sleeping Army
This is part four in my Astral Mage serial, following on from The Guardian last week! Artemuse followed Eddister through a maze of narrow corridors, their ceilings so low that even Artemuse had to duck. In places, Eddister simply crawled. Artemuse fought the rising panic that clutched at her gut, focussing on a point on […]
#FridayFlash – The Guardian
This piece follows on from last week’s flash, The Monarch. This has inadvertantly turned into a serial! Word must have spread among the guards as no one stopped Artemuse during her flight from the Palace. She left the shining building behind her and plunged into the murky depths of the Old Town, a crumbling maze […]
#FridayFlash – The Monarch
This piece follows on from last week’s flash, The Tower. Artemuse stood in the Throne Room of the Great Palace, hands bound behind her back. She had donned her cloak of feathers before she was arrested in the Bell Tower. Two of the Palace Guards flanked her, brandishing their halberds as though she were a […]
