BY PATRICK W. KAVANAGH The hammer strikes the fiery steel, the sparks, like fireflies, dance and wheel, the anvil rings out like a bell, a slow, relentless, steady beat. Read more

“I am Queen, and who but I should reign?” Read more

BY ELLEN VIRGINIA I was screaming in sheer desperation, but my voice was ripped from my mouth, lost and futile in the pandemonium. Read more

Love matters – the gentle sway of my mind when the bars have come down and no edges stint my flow. Read more

BY MARTINA JURICKOVA As I started thinking about it more deeply and reflected on my previous research, I realized that silence, after all, has its place in Tolkien’s writing. Read more

“I know it’s hard to believe, but even the Kings and Queens of this very country make mistakes when nearly everyone outside of Narnia expects us to be perfect.” Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Swan and dragon, water and flame, grace and fierceness, fair yet untamed. Wings like the snow, breath like the sun. Read more

“The great voice went though —golden, soaring, weeping. My heart broke then.” Read more

BY PAUL PFINGSTL The word and even the concept of “Stormtrooper” comes from the assault tactics developed by the German Army in the First World War. Read more

By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 31845 Rating: PG for scary situations Summary: Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, is used to being alone, until one day a girl with auburn hair waltzes into his life… Nico paced around in the empty alley, close to where Lucy and Scipio had found him at Read more

“I see that you have far to go, but yet your fair, fresh skin begins to burn. So, rest a while and I shall play a mellow tune, And we can journey on beneath the blessing of the harvest moon.” Read more

They also told me that Latinos and Italians don’t mix, like burritos and lasagna.  Bad combination.  For that reason, they never let me cross South 5th Street into the Italian block.  I didn’t mind too much, until the one reason to change my life drove into my garage during late April, last year.  Maria. Read more

BY HANNAH VINCENT She stopped suddenly. The tomb was open. It wasn’t supposed to be open. What happened? Read more

~ by Amanda Pizzalatto Back when Narnia was enjoying its golden days, when demigods and mortals lived side by side, there lived a very special family called the Pevensies. Aslan named the four children the future kings and queens of Narnia and prophesied that the four would prevent evil from befalling Narnia. But at the Read more

BY SARAH LEVESQUE “I always knew Lily was special. Why wouldn’t the whole world change because of her?” the man said as if to himself. Read more

BY DEE BRAN In the preface of the novel, he writes about errors humans have in their thoughts about devils. Read more

BY DANIKA COOPER “Once and always,” He said with finality, “and as to what else there is… there is so much more, Daughter of Eve.” Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI My words feel dry, my tongue like clay. What hope can I give? What more can I say? O shield Thou not Thy face! Read more

BY STEVEN D. GREYDANUS My feeling is that we already had pretty much every other pop culture franchise today selling us darkness and ambiguity. Read more

BY KAT COFFIN It was the separation from God that was the true evil of this world, not an eternal torture chamber.   Read more