Take Her Down to Paradise City Pt. 1

"Lena was having a rough go of things. Then she got one hell of a birthday present..."

Lena sat on her couch, excitedly opening the package from her aunt back home. Her birthday had been a month ago, but there had been some issues shipping this "mystery present". As Lena carefully extracted the hand-wrapped gift from within...

Baby stars hang in garlands above our heads,Smudges of rainbow amongst the fir boughsThat twinkle in dozy merriment.Like the passersby in the icy streets,They are oblivious to all but their own mirth.But we, we two,Beneath this scented tree,Cloying pine spliced...

Grandfather Yule

"He gives his all and discovers that giving has its rewards."

( A Darkniciad story ) Stepping out of a warm, brightly lit cottage into a gentle, moonlit snowfall, an elderly woman approached the man standing just beyond the silhouette of light from the door. "What are you watching, dear?" The...

Two Wishes

"What do you get for the man who has everything?"

Luc look dazed, and for a long time it seemed he didn’t know what to say. When he did speak up, it was the same thing everyone always said: “So I can wish for anything I want?”"Almost anything," Darius said....