Chapter 2
The alarm was going off, but it wasn’t where it was supposed to be. About fifteen minutes prior, Rose had rolled over and slapped the snooze button, not ready to wake up and face the day. It went off again, and when she…
Chapter 1
Rose had never believed being in a gang of half-elves would lead to so much trouble. Of course, most seventeen-going-on-eighteen year old girls would never believe such a thing was possible in the first place. At the time, Rose had considered herself lucky.…
Art practice
I've been practicing digital art recently and thought I'd share. My most recent endeavor is learning to draw specific eye shapes. Most elves in the Umbra have vertical, almond shaped pupils. It's not as noticeable in the low light, but shine a beam of light…
Official
It just came out. I hadn’t planned for it. Hell, every part of me said it was probably a bad idea. But I didn’t care. All my reservations. All my fears. All my insecurities that sometimes I think you don’t even know exist. None of…
Mr. Linden’s Library
Elizabeth Liddel was a girl of fifteen who loved to read. Almost anywhere she went people would see her short, dirty blonde hair poking out of an open book as her wide hazel eyes tore furiously across the pages. Many people thought her strange. She…
The Morning
June was in a musical mood that day. The steady rain was using the gymnasium’s roof as its instrument, and it pit-pattered and cling-clanged a song to help to fill the silence while we waited for the circle to fill. Even after five meetings, we…
And so it begins!
Rose knows the magical world of Umbra exists. She’s seen it. She’s lived it. Now she wants to return to it. Trapped on Earth, with only her trickster guardian and a displaced gang of elven siblings for company, Rose longs to return to the world…