by Oishi Maki illustrated by Uehara Kazushi (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/320463.html) [Author’s Warning: Disturbing content.] When Wolfram says his prayers in the dark, he thinks of Magdalena. She haunts him. She sits on the shoulders of his every intention, of everything he tries to do. He finds Isengrin sitting outside her locked doors, chin in his hand. […]
Category Archives: Text
28
Oct
Castillo de Cruzito
by Riba (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/320756.html) Ion stood in the open doorway looking into a 3rd year class at Castillo de Cruzito, his university’s campus in Spain, where he was finishing up the last semester of his international exchange program. He scanned the room, feeling himself flush as the ten students and professor stared at him accusingly […]
28
Oct
What Found Me in the Undercroft
by SeishinNoUwagi (精神の上着) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/320852.html) Varrigboy Castle was neither the furthest destination I’d pursued in the line of my employment, nor the most difficult to reach, but before its towers rose above the horizon I already felt lost at the ends of the earth. The boat tipped beneath me, spray stinging my eyes like angry […]
28
Oct
The Red Hood and the Bad Wolf
by Ryoko21 (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/321046.html) A long, twisting road led into the darkest part of the forest. About two miles down the weaving road, the leafless trees started to grow less dense. The thorny underbrush started to thin, and eventually gave way to a circular clearing, ringed on three sides by thick, ominous trees. In the […]
28
Oct
A mon seul désir
by Reddoraion no ōjo (レッドライオンの王女) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/321314.html) It is a cooling, chilling time of year, a time of falling leaves. People listen to stories told around crackling orange fires and believe curious things. Strange things still sometimes happen. The travelers have roasted a rabbit, eaten the sizzling meat until they are full and finished with […]
28
Oct
Hunter
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/321640.html) Maybe it was supposed to make everything look like night in movies, milky blue but still bright enough to cast shadows. Rian couldn’t think of another reason for the cobalt neon lights under the bar. They shone off the tops of his black shoes and made everything look somehow distant, […]
28
Oct
Ectoplasmic Manifestation
by Aosora Hikaru (青空ヒカル) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/322339.html) thunk. Seth looked up as the paper landed on his desk, folded up smaller than their student ID cards. He glanced over to his left at Tanner, who laced his fingers behind his head and reclined with a smug smirk on his face. “The fuck, dude,” Seth hissed as […]
28
Oct
The Shadow in the classroom
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/322751.html) The village’s two blocks formed a figure eight. Duncan drove around it a few times, getting the lay of the land. Main drag, lined by Victorian brick in various stages of neglect and restoration. Left past the feed co-op and the stone foundations of the long-ago mill, left […]
26
Aug
Night Begins the Day
by shukyou (主教) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/315497.html) Eventually, his parents had talked Lemuel down to only two Transformers figures, and those he would carry in his pockets instead of his hands. Asher had not been there for the negotiations, but Lemuel recounted them in great detail in the car, several times over. “My pockets, not my hands, […]
26
Aug
Smuggling, and How to Make Interstellar Exploration Work For You
by Aosora Hikaru (青空ヒカル) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/315849.html) The computer chimed and flashed a confirmation of the set faster-than-light course on its nav screen. I leaned back in my seat and let the autopilot take over, then yawned and stretched. “Come on, you haven’t been awake that long,” a voice from behind me teased. “And I didn’t […]
26
Aug
Flowers in the Jungle
(mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/315973.html) Ray tried to contain a shudder as his wife, Pamela, dipped a wooden bowl into a mass of squirming grubs and handed it to him before taking one for herself. He smiled at her, doing his best to maintain his fake look of love and adoration. Only eight more years until the pre-nup […]
26
Aug
Collide
by loveonthefarm (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/316602.html) “I thought we weren’t supposed to use work to take care of personal business.” Nate stops shuffling through a week’s worth of unread mail to give Sasha a flatly unamused look. “Okay, two things. One: it is a Thursday night, and 90% of our traffic—college kids—is otherwise occupied. I haven’t seen […]
26
Aug
Queen Zahr’s Revenge
by Matsu Kasumi illustrated by beili (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/316797.html) Lax System, November 2036 Lewis was in the firing turret, observing Del, the gigantic space station that was getting smaller in the distance. The turret was Lewis’ favourite place because it was the only part of the Queen Zahr’s Revenge that had actual windows instead of the […]
26
Aug
Hazy Cosmic Jive
by Renaissance Makoto J (ルネサンス・真・J) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/316961.html) The squirrel woke West up at precisely 7:30 AM on a Tuesday (August 18th, to be precise), and informed him that hostile aliens would be arriving in eight days and that it might be wise to leave Los Angeles. Explaining this to the guys at the Jet Propulsion […]
