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The Woman in the Sky

He couldn’t stop after just one flight. He knew he should have, just as he knew, if he wanted to keep himself concealed, that he should never have taken that first flight. Using his Talent, though — truly using it — had become something like an addiction. He felt like someone who’d been bound to … Continue reading The Woman in the Sky →

Charles Williams Elal, Fantasy, Short Story Leave a comment November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 8 Minutes

No Word for Goodbye

In a public space, like this café, there was no real privacy. At any moment a person that they didn’t know could view them, sitting there together, sharing their time. If someone made the effort, he could lean over and hear the contents of their conversation. Yet of course nobody did: their conversation wasn’t that … Continue reading No Word for Goodbye →

Charles Williams Elal, Fiction, Short Story Leave a comment September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 3 Minutes

Help

I have to help. It’s not just a drive within myself. It’s not something altruistic inside me that sees a person in danger and says, Hey, you really should intervene. I don’t like to listen to that voice. I don’t often hear that voice at all. What I get, instead, is a voice that said, … Continue reading Help →

Charles Williams Elal, Fantasy, Short Story Leave a comment August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 5 Minutes

Her Child’s Body

She knew, when he was born, that he was Powered. They’d scanned her baby as soon as they’d pulled him from her womb out of the cut in her stomach, and that little white wand had lit up with a green light. Her child was a Class-1 Powered. They had taken him off and had … Continue reading Her Child’s Body →

Charles Williams Elal, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Story Leave a comment June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 5 Minutes

Better

You think you know yourself. You think that, among other people in the world, you are the foremost authority on you. It makes sense, right? There’s nobody else that can get inside your mind, to feel and hear and see your thoughts in the way that you can. Nobody perceives the world quite like you … Continue reading Better →

Charles Williams Elal, Fantasy, Short Story Leave a comment June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 7 Minutes

Meant to Be

Oko loved video games, but video games did not love him back. That’s how he thought of it. He didn’t mean it in the literal way, of course. He knew that video games didn’t have emotions, and that their developers didn’t spare any thoughts for him, particularly, outside of the rest of their consumer base. … Continue reading Meant to Be →

Charles Williams Elal, Short Story Leave a comment May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 4 Minutes

Mr. Ongive Frightened Me

I am Knight-Detective Aberforo Honata. Most of you likely don’t recognize me by name, unless you follow the news very closely. That’s okay. I didn’t accept the offer to right this editorial to talk about myself, but rather, about an experience that I had with a man whose name, I would guess, the majority of … Continue reading Mr. Ongive Frightened Me →

Charles Williams Elal, Fiction, Short Story Leave a comment April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 6 Minutes

Newborn

I was thinking about the character on this one and how I wanted to write a story about what she became later in life, but somehow along the way I lost the actual story I meant to write. It ended up having little in the way of "story" at all, and it's more just like … Continue reading Newborn →

Charles Williams Elal, Short Story Leave a comment February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 4 Minutes

Erasure

The concept of Erasure was first introduced in the country of Vastat, and while that remains the sole place that it has been put into practice, discussion of the ethical and logical implications of Erasure as a form of punishment has spread worldwide. Vastat is a small country off of the southwest coast of Chormanthyr. … Continue reading Erasure →

Charles Williams Elal, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Story Leave a comment January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 7 Minutes

Serrano Sidewalk

“Where do you think you’re going, skinny?” “Yeah, pretty boy. Where you going?” Tobias flushed, but he kept walking. Engaging with the girls would only encourage them. If he ignored them, they might leave him alone. “Hey, we’re talking to you,” one of them said. He didn’t want to look back at them. That would … Continue reading Serrano Sidewalk →

Charles Williams Elal, Fiction, Short Story Leave a comment January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 9 Minutes

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