Dracula’s Call

Darkness cloaks the earth I feel my powers swell My eyes burn red in blackness Set on fire by hell The stars and moon are dimming Veiled by some dark cloud As if the sky were dead Pale in her burial shroud I spread my wings and dark, cruel things Surround me at my call …

The Foundling: Second

Adelen stared into the bed of ferns for a long few seconds. The child was asleep. Wisps of dark hair fell over his forehead, the evening sun gleaming on his olive-tinted skin. Snuggly swaddled in a rough, brownish cloth, the baby seemed perfectly comfortable. Soft hiccups -- the sound that had stopped Adelen on the …

The Foundling

The forest was silent except for the wind whispering past and the purple-hued doves cooing in the boughs above. Knowing by the sun's low position in the sky that lastmeal time was approaching, Merid huffed and pawed at the ground. The large gryphon's golden fur was so long near his feet that it nearly hid …

Diary of a Superhuman

They’re all afraid of me. I feel it. I see it in the way they stop talking when I walk through the door. The way they look at me out of the corners of their eyes the entire time. The audible sigh of relief when I leave the room. All of them are like me, …