Featured story: “Antivenom”
She is venom.
Ivory survived the first wave of wyrms thanks to her guardian, Levi—a fae with snakes for hair. Levi found her as a baby and saved her from the death that awaited the rest of the world, but now a second wave of wyrms is encroaching, and Levi’s presence isn’t enough to keep Ivory safe anymore. They have one last, desperate plan: to inoculate Ivory using Levi’s venom and the wryms’ own venom. But the cure could be as deadly as the disease, and there is no scenario where Ivory walks out of this unchanged.
(Picture Credit: Dominic de Souza via LegendFiction)
Featured story: “The Bittersweet Dark,” An Essence Bane Story
Death’s mother is gone. Her chocolate is not.
Priyam Aqna—Death incarnate, prince of Night and Sleep—lost his mother centuries ago. She was only mortal. And she loved chocolate. She once owned a chocolate tavern, but since she died, Priyam hasn’t been able to bring himself to step foot in it.
Now it’s in disrepair, rotting away. And Priyam will no longer see his mother’s legacy desecrated by decay and vermin.
Recruiting his stylish friend, Aquilian ‘Quil’ Tectarus—immortal prince of miracles—Priyam cleans and refurbishes the tavern. But as he returns it to its beloved state, Priyam is forced face-to-face with the legacy he’s most neglected: the one she loved most.
Featured story: “Birdling”
You know the story of King Arthur. This isn’t it.
Hode is descended of kings—specifically, King Aruthur and his scion Tristan. She is the one true heir of Britain. And she is in disguise. Britain is nothing like her home of Avalon, and is a phantom of the former glory in the stories Arthur and Tristan have told her.
It turns out, Britain’s stories tell a different tale of her beloved ancestors.
Confronted with a split, contradicting narratives, Hode returns to Avalon, searching for answers—even if the truth breaks her.
Featured story: “To Paint with Lyre Strings”
Orbit al-Kattani is haunted by another reality, and he sits in the market to share the lifeblood burning in his stories, even as his body fails him, he turns to new tools to enchant and enliven his hearers.