Monday, July 31, 2023

Just a Free Write

 



Could not find a prompt that interested me today, so I sat down and just free wrote the start of something for you guys. Hope you all enjoy it.

Let your imagination soar.


It’d been a long time since I called on my talent and for good reason. Last time I did so, dozens died, but if I didn’t do so millions might lose their lives according to the vision Luca, Prince of the Clairvoyant, rambled to me in his drunken state six nights ago. He’d not meant to tell me. After he spilled his beans and sobered up, he came begging me to keep my mouth shut. Prince Luca said it was of the utmost importance. Life or death, mine and his apparently. His father had issued a gag order on him and if King Harry discovered his son broke it he’d lynch him in front of his subjects to prove how serious it was for people to obey his directives. I’d just be a sideshow to ensure that no one else discovered the secret his son spilled. I knew King Harry’s wrath firsthand, didn’t need a second show of it.

Didn’t mean my gut allowed me to sit aside and let the world come to an end when I could do something to stop it. And King Henry knew I could have stepped up and ceased the problem at hand. Why had he not come to me? Did he still despise my past acts so much that he would let the world end before he asked me for help? Surely not. It was my ability to forestall what was to come that had me groping in a lily pond to find the perfect aged toads and baby lily pads for the spell required. Heck fire, next I’d be transporting myself into the Spirits Graveyard to gather some ancient dirt from Lord Dracula’s resting place. The other four ingredients weren’t as complicated to locate, but were tricky to convince sellers to sell to me. After my last fiasco, High Priest Eric put a limit on what I was allowed to cast and therefore monitored what I bought. I’d never once gone to a black-market seller before, mainly because I’d not cast a spell in over five decades, but even if I had wanted to I never would have debased myself to go to one.

Guess I will be. There was no way around it. What was a little shame if the world survived? People could think what they wished of me long as they were alive to do so.

Monday, July 24, 2023

Disgraced Magical Being

DISGRACED MAGICAL BEING

 


BY

JULIA MATTHEWS

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A fire ended his dream life years before it should have. 

Jay Walker wasn’t dead, neither was the love of his life, thanks to his Magical Powers. To save the one that mattered most to him, Jay did the one thing that would get him sent back to the place from which he never wanted to return: The Magical World.

There’d be no returning to the family who disowned him or the coven he’d been raised to take over at the age of twenty-five.

There’d be a new coven. One who’d shun him. Overlook him or beat him because of his choices. 

Jay resigned himself to a life of being invisible, hopefully one where his father who disowned him never learned of his now wretched existence. There was no way for love to bloom in such hostile surroundings. So he never expected what happened when Elder Robert placed him inside the walls of the Clive Coven.


Monday, July 17, 2023

Weekly Writing Prompt

Prompt came from: https://fabledplanet.com/50-fantasy-writing-prompts/ 


Prompt: You wake up with the ability to shapeshift into any animal of your choosing. How do you use this to solve your problems?



Sun warmed my face as I stretched my legs, letting the silk sheets slid down my bare legs. It was going to be a beautiful day. I laid there soaking in the morning rays when a stinging began racing through my legs up to my waist, over my chest and down my arms. I was just about to stand up when my body spasmed. I’m sure I yelled, but I don’t think that’s what came out of my mouth because my roommate charged into my room shouting.


“When did you get a cat?”


Cat? He was allergic to cat. I’d promised to never bring animals into the house. It was the one rule he had and the one thing that could get me kicked onto the street again. The one place I did not want to be. Before I knew what was truly going on, I darted under the thick piled up comforter and sheets burying myself out of sight.


“You aren’t even here.” Gregory huffed and muttered something about he must being hearing things. I waited until I heard him shut the door and then extracted my small body from the pile of covers.


I jumped off the bed and ambled over to the mirror on the closet door, taking in the yellow tabby that stared back at me.


Monday, July 10, 2023

Weekly Prompt

 

Prompt Came from: https://fabledplanet.com/50-fantasy-writing-prompts/


Prompt: A prophet realises that they will be the cause of the catastrophic event they have foreseen – and they’re not so sure they want to stop it.


His head throbbed, worse than it ever had before. He should be used to the feeling of his scalp pounding like a jackhammer, and he was most of the time, but never before did it feel as if it someone struggled to rip his skull from his scalp. He wasn’t sure if it came from the intensity of the vision he just had or the contents of it. Either way, he needed to sit down.

He held his hand out, grabbing for any piece of furniture he could find. His arms flounders around like a fish out of water for a second or two before it reached . . .

Soft cloth.

“Here let me help you, Simon,”

“Jack, that you?” There was no way, Simon would try opening his eyes. All he’d see would be dark grayness for another minute or two. The visions always left him in a sort of darkness afterwards. More of dark grays and light black mingled together until all he saw was . . .

Nothing. Not even shapes.

“Yeah, buddy, it’s me. Why did you not shout out for me?”

“Thought I could handle it myself.”

“We’ve told you anytime you have one of these Spiritual Visions that we will aid you.”

Simons knew his three best buddies would do anything for him. They’d grown up with him, saw him struggle with coming to terms with his mystical ability that he inherited from his biological parents. Heck fire, they helped more than his adopted parents managed to. Oh, they’d been supportive and tried to understand what he required but never quite grasped how important his visions was to the world. His visions redirected the entire world’s path of life. Kept it from fallen into tiny particles of dust from time to time. Once it kept a meteor shower that would have sent the world from spiraling out of orbit from hitting. Another time, he kept some mad-man from blowing up half of the US. Each time he had a vision it saved either the world or someone majorly related to the daily functioning of a major aspect of some part of the world. He worked closely with each major military enforcement of each government. Each vision he had impacted someone’s life in a major way and the one he had was no exception. But none had ever effected his personal life before. And it was in no simple manner. Life or death one. And for once, he did not wish to change it. If he did, his besties, their family and his own would die. They stood beside him when others left before he could even explain what he was. Heck, he knew the government only kept him around because of his ability, if it wasn’t for how it aided them he’d have been locked away or killed many years ago. They would want him to defend the world, not worry about a handful of people, but he would not betray his family and those who cared about him more than anyone else. He would not do so. Not for anyone, not even his own life.

“What was it this time? Which government do I need to call for you this time?”

The refrigerator door opened as Jack retrived me a bottle of cold water, which he always did after I had one of my visions. Each of my friends knew how dried out they left my mouth and whoever was around me made sure I had what I needed to recoup from them before they made the calls for me. That is why I would not be calling in my handlers.

“I need you to call Hank, Cal and tell them to gather their family. You call yours too. Tell them they are to pack only a bag of clothing for three night stay.” I let my eyelids slid up, blinking twice before I was able to focus enough to remember where my phone was. “Tell them all to meet us at the safe house.”

“What is going on?” Jack passed me the water as he tugged his phone from his back pocket. “What did you see?”

“I’ll explain once everyone is at the safe house and we can all get to safety.”

“Okay. Consider it done.”

Monday, July 3, 2023

Weekly Prompt

 


Prompt came from: https://fabledplanet.com/50-fantasy-writing-prompts/ 


Prompt: A deceased pet from the past shows up in your house – but now, they can talk. And they have something very important to tell you.


The lights were off, only light came from the faint orangish-flame burning in the sutt covered fire place my great-great-grandfather built with his own hands seven decades ago. Hell, he’d built the entire house from the first brick to the last stone paver in the driveway. Each generation had kept it up from then on, right to the moment it had been passed onto me the other month when my father had taken his last breath thanks to cancer. Right along side him had gone his trusted beagle, Servy. Servy, had came to my father when he was a pup from the woods behind the house. Father had found him wondering around, hungry and thirsty. He rushed him back to the house, begging his mom to keep him. Grandma had tried to tell dad no, but one look at the ruggied dirt covered puppy had her caving and shaking her head. Who knows why dad named the little black and white beagle Servy, but he did and the dog grew up to be the most loyal thing in the world. It did not surprise me that he took his last breath two days after my dad did. He vet said it was no uncommon for dogs who grew up with someone to pass along with them as well. It hurt me as much to lose Servy as it did my dad. 


I’d felt lots of loss in my life over the last ten years. It shouldn’t. be new to me, but I doubted it ever got easier to lose a loved one. I feared each of us had to suffered the grief process no matter what it was. I assumed that’s why I found myself sitting in my dad’s favorite, brown leather chair, the one that was conformed to his ass and had no cushion left in it, staring into the fire like a lost person remembering all the good times dad, mom, my wife and two children had together. All the ones I loved and lost over the last ten years were alive in my memory tonight, full and bright no matter how much I wished their ghost were not haunting me.


Whoof. Whoof. Whoof.


“Where is that coming from?”


I stood and made my way over to the front window, peeking through as I clicked the front porch light on. Doubted I’d see anything. There were no homes within a mile of the farm. All that I’d be able to see were empty horse pasters. Dad sold all his horses the moment he was diagnosed with cancer of the pacourous. They’d told him from the get-go there was no chance of surviving it and he knew I had no dream of running the horse farm. I loved the house and would keep it, but did not want the ordeal of keeping up the farm.


The light blinked on and off twice then fluttered to a bright life, revealing . . . “What in the world?”


I rushed over to the door, throwing it open and stepping onto the front porch, kneeling down, jerking back upright before I called Servy to me. There was no way in the world the dog I saw sitting in the front yard was Servy. I’d buried him next to my dad almost a month ago. Whatever dog sat there staring at me was just similar in looks. That’s all.


“Shoo, go away. Find you way back home.” I turned to go back in and got my hand on the door when the most unbelievable thing in the God-green Earth happened.


“I am home, Pinky-Boy.”


Only one person called me Pink-Boy in my life, my father and he only did so when we were alone, or when no humans were around us. And there were none around me right then. Hell, there was nothing around me then, but a damn dog that resembled a dead one.


“You are not going insane, Pickard.” The dog was at the foot of the porch when I turned back towards the front yard. “I have a message for you from your family.”


“Message from . . . Are you . . . I’m . . . There’s no way in the world I’m seeing or hearing this.”


The dog, no Servy, trotted the rest of the way up the porch and came up to my feet and sat down, staring up at me with his tongue hanging out. “You are.” He bobbed his head. “Your family, Lisa-Ann, especially says for her daddy to bring the horses back to the farmie for her to watch from above.”


Oh my God. There was no way, to disbelieve what I was hearing. Lisa-Ann had only been five when the drunk driver hit my wife’s car and took my entire family from me. My wife, Jessie, our son, Harry and our baby girl Lisa-Ann had all died on impact, leaving me to live a life without them all. Lisa-Ann had loved to come to the farm and see her grandpa, she never called it anything other than farmie and loved to ride the horses. She swore to her grandpa that she’d be a jockey one day like her grandma had been. Maybe, the message was from his family. Maybe, they were alive and watching him from the Good Heavens above and wanted him to know. Watned to give him a way to make it through the rough time that lay ahead of him now that he was all of the Hunkard family that lived.