Markiss Halfweight had tried to kick a door down once. It had flown open in a very gratifying manner, but before he could step through the doorway it had swung closed again with a violent slam. He’d managed to avoid getting struck in the face by unyielding wood, but ever since that lazy, beery afternoon [...]
Hob grew up in a whore house in Belletown, her mother being the Mistress of the House. When she was 11, her father, a spy masquerading successfully as a traveling actor, was very surprised to find that he had a child. She joined him and his long time partner, her “uncle,” and their troupe and [...]
Cassie dumped her knapsack on the kitchen floor and opened the fridge door, sticking her head inside and looking for something to eat. “I’m home!” she yelled, her voice mostly muffled by a half empty gallon of milk and mysterious tupperware and take out containers. She opened a white paper container, poking at the beef [...]
Cassie kicked the door closed with a big slam. She opened it up and slammed it again. And then again. And then once more.She didn’t think anyone was home, so she literally jumped when someone cleared their throat behind her. She turned and saw Uncle Theo standing at the fridge, a dark blue bottle of [...]
Cassie’s parents died a year ago, and the loss is still a raw and oozing wound. She misses them, and her uncle and aunts and cousins, and hates her “new” family, her new home, her new town, and her new school. She doesn’t understand why her father’s relatives, who always treated her as one of [...]
The creatures currently known popularly as angels were once known as the Malakhim (plural; Malakh singular), and called themselves the Malak’hai. While it hasn’t been proven, some demonologists claim that the Malak’hai are a type of, or closely related to, demons. Either way, long ago the creatures allied themselves with various human Gods. As Judaism [...]
The demons known as “Incubus” and “Succubus” are the same, mislabeled by human confusion over the sanctity of gender. There are not solely male and female demons of this type. Rather, there is one race of shape shifting demons which alters gender at will, according to taste: both its own taste, and the taste of [...]