The Wolf at the Door
Matters of the Hart 2022 by Zorha As their cuckoo clock announced the witching hour, the elderly woman shook her head from the sordid story that her adoptive granddaughter just told her. Her withered fingers still worked the knitting needles...
Wilde Jagd
Matters of the Hart 2022 by Zorha "I think that is enough stories for tonight." The old woman eased herself back into her rickety rocking chair with much effort. The brutal winter cold that seeped through the thin walls of their decrepit cottage...
Krieg Verzehrt
_ **Krieg Verzehrt** _ _ **2023 by Zorha** _ **_Lechfeld, Bavaria August 10th, 955_** As the fierce mid-day sun beat down upon the battlefield, the unending clash of metal tipped spears against shields filled the air. The cacophony of twenty...
Moment’s Monument
Moment's Monument 2022 by Zorha Highgate Cemetery London, England October 18th, 1899 As the heavy stone door slid open, the silvery light from a full moon crept across the mausoleum floor. A gust of bitter wind blew desiccated rose pedals...
Wolfbann
**Matters of the Hart** **2022 by Zorha** **The lonesome wolf lingering somewhere in the gloomy, snow shrouded depths of the Black Forest howled again. Inside a decrepit cottage, an old woman and her adoptive granddaughter looked up from a sordid...
Pakt des Wildgrafen
Matters of the Hart 2022 by Zorha A long time ago, in the Blackest Forest known to the Queen's Harts, sat a lone cottage of no importance. The coldest winter in recent memory settled into this land, and most nights, no doe crept from her safe, warm...
Screaming Alice and the Throne of Bone
_ **Screaming Alice and the Throne of Bone** _ 2023 by Zorha South London Junction Railway September 3rd, 1873 Another disjunction in the track jostled an already cantankerous Michael Faraday. It slowed the passenger train down ever so...
In This Moment
There's an old writer's adage; Write what you know. Sometimes what you know is really, really boring. But sometimes, the right soul makes it _all_ worth it. _In this Moment_ _2020 by Zorha_ Zorha drifted without form. Thoughts...
The Last Dance of the Jackalope
**The Last Dance of the Jackalope** **2004 All Rights Reserved - Christopher Wagoner** Cole watched through the tiny bar window as the searing wind outside howled and tore at the scorched earth. Entire hills of grit flew into the air as the wind...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter IV
The Eternal Forest Chapter IV 2022 by Zorha Lucus reficiat Silva Marciana 41 AD The distant tweets of birds stirred Reprobus from the depths of unconsciousness. He blinked his right eye open to the warm rays of late morning coming through one of...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter III
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter III_ _2022 by Zorha_ _genius loci_ _Silva Marciana_ _41 AD_ The wind whistled through the interlaced branches of the Black Forest. Its ancient trees swayed against each other, leaves rustling as if in a collective...
The Eternal Forest - Chapter II
_The Eternal Forest_ _Chapter II_ _2022 by Zorha_ _Tapetum lucidum imminente morte_ _Silva Marciana_ _41 AD_ Garin Odermahn of Tribe Chatti stopped dead in his tracks as a bloodthirsty howl erupted from somewhere out of the inky darkness...