This is a re-post for Christmas. I've been working on a larger project and haven't done as many short stories, but I've always been really pleased with this one, so I thought it was worth bringing out again. Percy Jones told lies. Not believable lies; those the other children could have forgiven, after all, a kid had to look out for himself, especially a weedy, bespectacled kid like Percy. Plus the elves who watched over them would frequently ignore an infraction earned in th

The world Jim Butcher has created in The Aeronaut’s Windlass is far from the paranormally infested Chicago of his Dresden Files. This world lives in spires, suspended above Earth’s uninhabitable surface by thousands of feet, surrounded by magnificent flying ships and magical machinery. On Spire Albion, Gwendolyn, a rich heiress, informs her mother that she will join the Guards with her cousin Benedict no matter what her family says. In another place on the spire, in a differ

Once home, they separated to their houses, still wordless. But there, their experiences began to diverge. Dean sat with his family around...

You have to be careful about who you bring with you to rob a temple for treasure. Dean thought wistfully that it would have been nice to...

Jane Austen is a favorite of mine—I can’t count the amount of times I’ve read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion in particular. But I...

https://aaronseayillustrationanddesign.godaddysites.com/ This is a repost of an old story since I have been given an illustration to...

I was not able to get to the library as much as I wanted earlier this month, so I picked up a book I read quite a while ago. I enjoyed it...

It should have been difficult for the boy to clutch his sheaf of new hire paperwork, run to keep up with Griffin, and still manage to...