In Battle, Broken
L J Goulding
“It’s no trouble!” Hanne insisted. “I’ll go now, before I get this young man his supper.”
L J Goulding
“It’s no trouble!” Hanne insisted. “I’ll go now, before I get this young man his supper.”
Michael McCarthy
Illi releases my hand just as my luminous weapons materialize over my arms. “Go to him,” I tell her. “Go to your father.”
“Illi, run!” her father pleads.
“No, lass,” said the girl’s father. “That one’s no monster slayer. Too small by half.”
The girl and her father quickly lost interest and strolled through the village to partake in the various amusements.
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Dana Luery Shaw
Dana Luery Shaw
Quinn fired her last arrow as the monster charged her again. This time her aim was true, and the shaft flew right down its gullet, felling the creature in a heartbeat.
Anthony Burch
Then we got to my favorite part.
Whenever I get the drop on somebody, I usually get about a two to three second window as they try to make sense of me.
Rayla Heide
In Ixaocan, Qiyana gladly took credit for the slaughter, infuriating her mother and father. They told her the Piltovan merchants were sending fresh miners and armsmen into the jungle.
Ariel Lawrence
I offered him my hand, and his fingers trembled at my touch. As soon as he was set upon his feet, he let go.
He had seen the violent face of my duty, what I could never bring myself to show Hakim, and I had let it happen.
Jared Rosen
The winds are soft, and no sound carries save the crunch of pebbles beneath our feet. Darius asks why a devil would make his home here. I tell him that for a devil, the only better place is hell itself.
Mundo
Mundo think they avoid goin to doktur! Mabbe me go find them? Mundo to da reskue!
Day 304
I hav a pahent!
Jared Rosen
Amanda Jeffrey
And there’s no one to take care of you as you did your sister and father.”
There’s nothing I can say.
“Your cause is our cause,” said Kalista, the Spear of Vengeance. Her voice was grave cold.
I was dead. I must make that mean something.
Anthony Reynolds
“Why you gotta be so damn scrawny?” I throw back.
I have no idea if the sea witch or her pets are coming after us, but it don’t seem like a good idea to stick around and find out.