Hunting the things that go bump in the night isn't all fun and games, young hunters. Sometimes, things go wrong in the worst possible way. And when that happens, you can only hope that whatever it is has some mercy in it. Or at least a good sense of humor about it.
Taken in a raid on the tent of the prince of Urartu during a lion hunt near the border with Assyria, the fourteen-year-old catamite, Aramu, becomes the Assyrian lord of Kirrui's aggressive sex reliever. Incensed by the bloodbath at the hunting encampment, the army of Urartu lays siege to Kirrui. Will Aramu be saved or doomed and do the Urartuans care about a captured catamite anyway?
A dragon ate an alchemist that just so happened to have an experimental invisibility potion with him. Now she's 'bedridden' and unable to work. A reporter interviews her.
A Halloween 2022 Contest Entry
A college student is struggling after both her grandmother and mother die in the same year. But when going through their things, she finds an ancient Chinese manuscript. Then a translation her great-grandmother did, telling a supernatural story of a magical pearl necklace, women that can turn into foxes, and family love. And after learning all of this, will she act like a modern "American Woman", or continue the unique "family tradition"?