By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 2418 Rating: PG Summary: A story of the Regency era and troubles for men. Everyone knows that a woman with a large fortune is in need of a man to manage it. Or, in some cases, to use it, if the woman turns out to be a better Read more

By Lyn Wilson Word Count: 202 Rating: G Summary: An original poem by Lyn Bennett Wilson Have you found the place where dreams go to die? Where people exist, living on fear? It is your beginning not your end, find wings to fly Look behind you, for the map home is your shining tears Watch the Read more

BY ISABELLA SUMMITT My sword, my honor, and my hunger — when I had bartered away everything else, these were all I had left. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI The Pilgrims journey to the New World truly lent life to the allegory Pilgrim’s Progress by the Puritan author, John Bunyan. Read more

BY CHARLES PEGUY, TRANSLATED BY ANDREW JOHN LOMAS “You imagine, Joan, that everyone is as pious, as compassionate, as good as you. This is a grave mistake. If you only knew what life is really like.” Read more

By Jessica Beaubien (alias Niaf) Word Count: 27542 Rating: PG for moments of peril Summary: The alternate account of the Chamber of Secrets seen through Snape’s eyes.   Severus tried to push himself away from thoughts of the last month. Since those first few days, they had fallen into something of a routine. He had found Read more

BY MARY FRANCES JOHNSON We prove whether or not we are truly free when we have to make decisions about good and evil. Read more

“I was wondering whether you’d be joining us. I must say, I’m rather surprised. I expected you to continue to cower in Dumbledore’s skirts.” Read more

BY M.C. PEHRSON “Stay on Vulcan? Spock, you’ve already been away too long. I want you both home.” Read more

By: Nadia C. Shoshana Word Count:  5068 Rating: G Summary: A mass Jane Austen crossover story. Ballrooms are known to bring the greatest of pleasures or disappointments and certainly the highest expectations from many different quarters in London.  A particularly grand ballroom found itself employed for an evening during the height of the season by one Read more

“You don’t have to believe exactly what they do, no more than all of you Order members have to exactly believe the statute of secrecy should be abolished.” Read more

By Audrey Elissa Hodson Word Count: 396 Rating: G Summary: A Jane Austen-style short fiction. Dawn crept through the thin linen window hangings. Our rooster ‘twas all but inept, as of late. But not to worry, as the sun was ever the faithful companion, as perhaps it always had been. I did not boast myself a Read more

“Ah Lily, Lily, take me in Three words I had to say at the end Look and at and me…” Read more

BY GRAEME RESTORICK Sharpe has to work harder than most to earn the respect of both his social ‘betters’ and his ‘peers’. Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI They say that war is not a woman’s game. But I know how to play, yes, I can play, play you all, play you all to death. Read more

By Jessica Beaubien (alias Niaf) Word Count: 27542 Rating: PG for moments of peril Summary: The alternate account of the Chamber of Secrets seen through Snape’s eyes. Severus wondered again what he would do now that it seemed this child had found a way to wiggle into his heart. How wrong he’d been all these years Read more

“Terribly sorry!” she gasped, tripping over the hem of someone’s skirt. “Indeed, I hope not. No one should be so sorry when they are distracted by books,” her victim replied. Read more

Unless the spider was highly poisonous he would not destroy it, for Vulcans respected life in all its myriad forms. A common motto of his people read, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Read more

By: Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 2407 Rating: G Summary:  Inspired from Braze and How to Train Your Dragon The battle was practically over before it could even start. No one could really compete with the dragons of Berk, especially with Hiccup Haddock the Third as the captain. He walked across the plank to the Read more

BY M.C. PEHRSON “There were no keys,” the boy insisted against all logic. “I didn’t need one in the tunnel because the doors weren’t locked!” Read more