Storyfeather
346 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsI'm Nila, and I have stories to tell you. Stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, fairy tale, mystery, and mythology. Mortals wield godly powers, eggs appear out of enchanted pockets, sentient substances are invented, and stars are incubated in the hearts of humans. Welcome to Storyfeather.
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The Thorn Clock
June 28, 2024 23:37 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBWhen her auntie died, Subira inherited three things from her: a blessing, a curse, and a quest. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: When her auntie died, far sooner than she should have, Subira inherited three things from her. One was a blessing. One was a curse. The third was a quest. The curse is what killed her aunt. And the curse would kill Subira too unless she completed the quest before the number on the clock that her aunt gave her reached one thousand and six. What’s the ...
The Mind Beyond the Maze
June 21, 2024 17:46 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBAn expert in the field of neurological mapping is the only person qualified to enter an experimental simulation and rescue her greatest rival. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: “It could be psychological. Maybe his subconscious put something in there, or built a section of the maze on its own, and he’s having a tough time getting out.” “And what else?” The tech frowned at me as if I already had the answer and was purposely keeping it from her so she could figure it out on her ...
The Nanocosmetologist
June 14, 2024 23:46 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MBAn inventor aiming to revolutionize cosmetics with her intelligent nanoparticle mechanisms, revises and refines her invention to serve a greater purpose. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Kaira explained how it worked. Her nanoparticles were simple mechanisms that responded to commands transmitted from a voice-activated processing patch attached to her skin, just below her throat. She called them nanoparticle mechanisms or NPMS. They were simple, but not identical. The ones that co...
The Cat That Haunted the Mouse
June 07, 2024 07:21 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBA mouse narrowly escapes a cat, and is later haunted by the ghost of the cat, who believes the mouse plays a part in the “unfinished business” of the cat’s life. Genre: Fable Excerpt: Two eyes, yellow with a green glow, hovered in the darkness. A shaft of soft light from a crack in the wall fell between Rini and those eyes, those eyes that loomed. Those eyes that floated closer. A smiling snout appeared in the shaft of light, and wicked whispers, and sharp, pointed ears, and ...
Auroramorphosis
June 01, 2024 00:54 - 40 minutes - 56 MBA girl accidentally passes before a warlock who is laying a curse on someone, and wakes the next morning to find that the curse has fallen upon her instead. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: I didn’t earn what happened to me. The curse that fell on me was meant for another. That’s what happens when petty warlocks are reckless with their magic. What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? You wake to find that your appearance has altered completely. How do you make those aroun...
Draugamunninn
May 24, 2024 23:11 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBA desperate people once made a monstrous bargain with a demon, and monsters they became. Genre: Fairy Tale Alert: This episode contains mention of harm to human babies, comparable to what can be found in classic fairy tales such as “Hansel and Gretel.” Excerpt: Legend says that the draugamunninn were once human. They were a practical but severe people who after suffering one terrible winter too many, and after failing to feed themselves with their own hands and their own labor...
Nine Wishes in Three Tales
May 17, 2024 22:01 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBA restless fairy creates a restless trinket with the power to grant its bearer three wishes, but as each wish is grant, the last wish fades away. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: A restless fairy grew bored one day and created a restless trinket, imbuing it with all of the fairy’s magic. The magic was all bent toward one purpose, to grant the bearer of the trinket three wishes. The form the trinket first took was as a pendant, which the fairy gave to a human acquaintance with only three ...
A Wish Upon the Fountain Fish
May 10, 2024 06:45 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBThe youngest of three siblings makes a wish at a mall fountain, where unseen fish supposedly live, helping people’s wishes come true. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: I twisted my mouth to one side, and stared at the coin that I held in the middle of my palm. “There’s a scientific explanation for it,” my sister said. "For what?” I said, glancing up at the fountain. We were standing three feet away from it. "For the wishes coming true.” What’s the Writing Prompt that i...
The Everyday God Who Wished to Sleep
May 03, 2024 07:03 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBAlert: This episode contains heartbeat sound effects. Long ago, the human heart experienced an extraordinary change, all because one god wanted to find a quiet place to sleep. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: A tale was once told among the ancestors of the people who live at the base of the great mountain to the north, from which a waterfall plummets into a river that winds across the land. The people who now live in that rich and lovely place still remember the tale of how and why ...
The Moths in the Moon
April 26, 2024 17:09 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBA moth dreams of visiting the Moon, but is too small to fly all the way. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: When first the moths alighted in the world below, the land of earth, they did so out of curiosity. And they did so because they were sent forth from their home by their creator. Their home and their creator were one and same, and she bore the name Moon. And she was the moon. What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? You’re a moth; what is your flame? What draws ...
The Swallow Who Was a Willow
April 20, 2024 00:32 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBA prideful swallow is cursed and changed into the form that she finds most abhorrent, a tree. Genre: Fable Excerpt: The swallow was a happy bird, but also somewhat superior. Nothing brought her joy the way flying did. Slicing through the clouds and flicking the air with the perfect points of her tail. She believed that birds were the supreme creatures of the world. Because they could fly. Some insects could fly as well, of course. But birds could fly higher, faster, and farther ...
John's Fellow Passengers
April 12, 2024 06:45 - 31 minutes - 43 MBAfter a man stuck in the middle seat of a long flight wishes he had more room in his row, his wish comes true: his seatmates start vanishing. Genre: Mystery Excerpt: But saying it out loud, he sounded a little foolish to himself, so he laughed and waved a hand. “I’m probably just being a worrywart for nothing. But I figure better safe than sorry.” The flight attendants agreed. And they said they’d look for his missing seatmates, and if they returned in the meantime, they aske...
Stranded in the Green and Gold
April 05, 2024 06:45 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBTwo passengers find themselves alone just after takeoff, on a plane that seems to be floating in some substance that the passengers can only define as being green and gold. Genre: Science Mystery Excerpt: If we were asleep, and the plane crashed into an ocean with green-and-gold water, and we’re now sinking, and the rest of the passengers managed to get out, then how did they all get a chance to take their luggage? And how did they then close the cabin doors again? What’s...
My Food Is Speaking to Me
March 29, 2024 23:23 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBDo the voices coming from the food in my fridge and pantry want to harm me, help me, or just…be? Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: “Tell me I’m sane,” I said. There was a pause on the other end. And then he finally spoke. “I refuse.” I sighed. “Freddy, come on.” “Give me some context, then.” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Describe each day of the week as food. Source: 500 Creative Prompts. Copyright © 2019 Piccadilly (USA) Inc. Fast...
Madeleine Miriam's Pizzapothecarium
March 22, 2024 07:50 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBDuring his first week working at a unique pizzeria, Ronnie encounters some uncanny late-night customers, who place an order for the rarest pizza on the menu. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: “What…what will this one do?” Ronnie asked as he folded fresh rosemary leaves and parmesan flakes into the dough. “It’ll make the customer swoon with pleasure upon first bite is what it will do.” Madeleine Miriam cocked an eyebrow. “And it’ll treat those infected gums on the left side of his jaw.” ...
Magenta Banana
March 15, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBThree friends decide to do their science project on a forgotten novelty invention, a self-peeling banana. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: “What about dinosaurs?” I said after a few minutes. “We could do our project on how and why they went extinct. That’s exciting.” K.D. shook her head. “It might seem too basic. Like something we would have done in the fifth grade.” She loved dinosaurs. She probably didn’t want someone making fun of our project if it was about the thing she l...
Welcome to Thoughtsburger
March 08, 2024 17:31 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBA young journalist follows her latest lead into a quirky fast food place located in her dreams. Genre: Mysterious Fantasy Excerpt: “Welcome to Thoughtsburger, would you like to try our new Weltschmerz platter with a side of Bitterness and Longing?” Ria stared at the person who had just addressed her. “Uh, no, thank you.” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Write a menu for a fictional fast-food restaurant. Source: A Writer’s Year: 365 Creative Writing Pro...
A Tale of Nine Lemons
March 01, 2024 07:55 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTo help a young man seek his fortune and his purpose upon leaving home, his parents endow him with a parting gift, a basket of lemons. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: The couple had thirteen children by the time they were finished siring. One by one, as each child came of age, they were sent out into the world to seek their fortunes and their purposes for themselves. To each child their parents gave one gift to help them on their way. And upon receiving their gifts, each child procla...
The Juggling Ghost Crab
February 24, 2024 01:20 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBTo save her friends and herself from being eaten, a ghost crab enters a juggling contest with a devious and possibly unbeatable opponent. Genre: Fable Excerpt: Four unlikely friends were frolicking in the ocean one day. They were the Ghost Crab, the Blue Marlin, the Jellyfish, and the Nautilus. The crab and the marlin splashed about on the surface, and dove back down, while the jelly and the mollusk bobbed gently under the surface. Overhead, there passed the shadow of the Seagull,...
They Linger in the Deep
February 16, 2024 07:45 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBWhen a young man sees his reflection in a pool as he has never seen it before, he is both mesmerized and suspicious. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: One day, he had an enticing thought. Then he chastised himself and told himself it was a silly and foolish thought. He shook his head as if shaking off the thought, but it was a sticky thought. It would not be forgotten. And so, he leaned down closer to his reflection, closer and closer, until his lips touched the surface of the water, ...
The Ogre and the Elf Go To Honeymoon City
February 09, 2024 07:45 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBLongtime lovers the ogre and the elf each recall the first few days of their honeymoon a bit differently. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: The ogre snapped her fingers and furrowed her warty brow. “What was the name of the place where we stayed…was it…the Twilight Twinklings Inn?” “No darling, that was for our first anniversary, when we went up north to see the lights.” The ogre brought her fist down on the table, making the forks jump. “Might of the Mermaid! That’s the place.” ...
The Incident at Soruquenty Beach
February 02, 2024 07:52 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBAn urban legend about a haunting phenomenon occurring in a little beach town becomes a news story when escalating incidents lead to the beaching of what appears to be a telepathic whale. Genre: Science Mystery Excerpt: “You’re looking for a story.” “Yes.” “My story.” “That’s right. What’s your story? Where did you come from? How did you get inside that whale?” What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? You’re barefoot in the sand on a beach, and the wa...
Jukebox Time Portal
January 26, 2024 07:53 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBThe inventor of a working time machine takes her closest friend on what was meant to be a quick trip to the near future. Genre: Science Fantasy Excerpt: I didn’t panic right away when Violeta said she had succeeded in building a working time machine. All of her inventions worked. All of them. But all her other inventions were a lot less…ambitious. I mean, a time machine. That’s the ultimate invention, isn’t it? What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story? Drawing cha...
The Hippocampus and the Menagerie
January 19, 2024 07:45 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBA fearful and captive servant, who tends a menagerie of unique and captive creatures, is dazzled by the arrival of a most magnificent creature known as a hippocampus. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: At the center of my memory is the image of a horse, a horse the color of orange cream, rearing up, and glancing at me, with an oceanic glint in her eye. She has wings. She has fins. She is fast. I remember. She was fast. Slicing through the water like a ray of sunlight. So I don’t know how...
The Obsidian Tusks
January 12, 2024 07:45 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBIn life and beyond, the elephant king seeks only one aim, to protect his people from despair. Genre: Fable Excerpt: As the elephant king lay dying, struck silent by his pain, able only to breathe shattered breaths, his mind thought its last thoughts. He could forgive the ones who had killed him. But forgiveness would do his people no good. He could lay a curse upon the ones who had killed him, villains and villagers alike. He was a king. The ghosts of his ancestors would answer...
A Most Discourteous Interview
January 05, 2024 09:42 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBA nervous young job-seeker’s interview is constantly interrupted by what seem to be personal phone calls to the interviewer, but from different callers. Genre: Fairy Tale Excerpt: I was nervous. Okay…yes, obviously. Obviously I was nervous. This one, I really, really wanted. Based on the description. Field investigation and research. Constant travel, mostly domestic, but some international travel might be required. Opportunities to advance, to earn further education, to earn money...
The Automated Fortune Line
December 29, 2023 07:45 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBA man seeks the help of a psychic after he experiences an unusual haunting from an automated phone line. Genre: Mysterious Fantasy Excerpt: “My life is still following the path he laid out for me.” Madame Granya frowned. “Who?” I stared at her. I wasn’t really struggling with whether or not I should tell her. I was just not telling her. I had nothing on my mind in that moment. I was…stuck, maybe. And then I spoke. “Me,” I said. I laughed, a self-mocking laugh. “Him. The voice…...
Roxie's Wake-up Call
December 22, 2023 22:29 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBSammy receives an unusual birthday gift, a smart device with a face, a set life span, and an unrelenting imperative to help. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: The figurine suddenly collapsed, then sprung up, wheeled her arms around, stretched them out, then up, then bopped up and down by bending at the knees. She gazed up at Sammy. “Hello there!” she said. “Are you the one who needs help?” Sammy said nothing. The figurine’s movements were smooth and graceful and quiet. She made no...
Seven Signs of Impossible Times
December 15, 2023 09:59 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBA reporter and camera operator expect to uncover a hoax when they investigate sightings of flying pigs, but soon find themselves on the path of a much stranger story. Genre: Fantastic Mystery Excerpt: “The boss wants us to relate it to the flying pigs story,” Quentin said. They were driving out to another farm, within the county this time. And this time, it was a commercial farm where the workers had reported that the chickens had begun growing teeth. What’s the Writing P...
The Galactic Analyst
December 08, 2023 07:45 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBWhen unexpectedly asked about their profession, a person accustomed to remaining unnoticed until needed debates about how to tell the truth—spectacularly, or mundanely. Genre: Science Fantasy Excerpt: I noticed him seeming to notice me, and I found that so unlikely that I almost frowned. I was extremely skilled at remaining unnoticed. The Queen of the Hollow Yellow Moon had once proclaimed that I had the power to turn invisible. Of course, there’s no such thing. At least, I haven’t ...
The Children of the Rain and the Sun
December 01, 2023 07:46 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBWhen the once-inseparable children of the Rain and the Sun quarrel and go their separate ways, they set in motion dire consequences for their parents and for the world. Genre: Mythology Excerpt: When they were young, the seven children of the Rain and the Sun were inseparable. They were magnificent, these children. When they were born, so too were colors born into the world. And the colors bore the names of the seven children. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. ...
The Shifting Night Anomaly
November 24, 2023 23:48 - 41 minutes - 57 MBA spaceship built for short-range research is re-tasked with the mission of traversing a vast and mysterious anomaly. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: The Shifting Night Anomaly was so called at first be-cause its margins seemed to change every so often, making it difficult, if not impossible, to map. We had sent probe after probe inside for three generations. Out of the near thousand probes that were deployed, only forty-seven were recovered. The more we learned about the a...
The Galvanic Ghost
November 17, 2023 22:19 - 39 minutes - 54 MBA woman entreats a student of medicine for help with an extraordinary and destructive condition, she can conduct massive amounts of electricity. Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction Excerpt: I am only a student. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would have a sufficient balance of knowledge and naiveté to serve her desperate need. And I am woman. That’s why she came to me, trusting that I would not mark her concerns as mere hysterics. What was this strange and destructive con...
Lickspittle and Sobersides
November 11, 2023 07:48 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBHigh jinks ensue when two caterpillar fairies who are close to death attend a grand fairy ball as a last hurrah. Genre: Fable, Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: “Alas! We are doomed to die as caterpillars, never having become butterflies.” Lickspittle shook hishead. He gazed up and shook several fists at the sky. Sobersides sighed gravely. “Perhaps tomorrow morning.” The two caterpillar fairies had woken that morning, and that meant that they were still caterpillars. And that would h...
The Bombinating Engine
November 03, 2023 19:55 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBThe crew of a prospecting freighter on the edge of known space makes an unexpected discovery about their outdated and recently replaced engine. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Cruising along at the edges of known space, the Vesta was among the last ships to receive the engine upgrade. But it wasn’t just distance that caused the delay. The t-drives were expensive. And unlike large organizations who could absorb the cost, individual contractors like Ryan and his crew had to weigh thei...
Elevator 6F
October 27, 2023 22:46 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBSix people get stuck on an elevator, but when the elevator starts moving again, their true ordeal begins. Genre: Horror, Mystery Excerpt: It wasn’t where any of us wanted to go, but we all stepped off the elevator as if by some instinct to escape the place where we’d been trapped, even if it had just been less than an hour. At a glance, we could see that the sixth floor was empty. No one was there. Nothing was there. Aside from the support pillars, it was an open empty space. Wh...
Lodgers in the Attic
October 20, 2023 23:35 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBA new homeowner must decide how to deal with the uncanny and uninvited inhabitants discovered in the attic. Genre: Horror, Mystery Content Warning: Animals in supernatural danger. Excerpt: One of my friends told me a terrifying story she’d read about. This guy was living in a house where a family lived, without their knowledge, for the longest time. He hid in some hidden closet they didn’t know about. He’d come out at night when they were sleeping, to use their shower and eat thei...
The Hollow Temple
October 13, 2023 22:43 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBWhat happens when two treasure-seekers cross a forbidden threshold and trespass within an ancient temple? Genre: Horror, Mystery, Mythology Excerpt: “Greetings, travelers,” the temple guardian said. “Give me your names.” The two treasure-seekers gave her their names freely. She did not return their offer of names, nor did she return their smiles. “Turn back, travelers,” the temple guardian said, her voice calm and measured. “Go no further than the spot where I now stand.” ...
Maugre Death We Walk
October 06, 2023 21:48 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBA young reporter investigating a case of vanishing corpses interviews a town recluse, who may be trying to help him…or silence him. Genre: Horror, Mystery Excerpt: …he realized she was one of the missing corpses. He couldn’t recall her name, only her face. He watched from outside as she appeared to be making small talk with the cashier. He decided he would catch her on the way out of the convenience store. But as she left and walked past him, he didn’t stop her. What would he sa...
The Last Honest Vampire
September 29, 2023 17:58 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBFor two friends, watching the new season of their favorite show may have to wait while one of them contends with a potentially life-changing event. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: “Sometimes I think it’s kind of nice that vampires are accepted in this fictional society,” Glo said. My attention perked up. That was different. But the response from the rest of our friends was not. “That would be like chickens living among us and being okay that we eat them.” “That show is dumb. They have...
A Coat for Many Dimensions
September 22, 2023 23:23 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBAn alchemist attempts to create a coat that will allow her to travel to other dimensions. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: Aunt Mariya was certain that she had solved the mystery of the many dimensions. All of us could do it, but our minds and bodies prevented us from going, be-cause the environments in these other dimensions were different. Some were slightly different. Some more drastically so. One would die as certainly as a diver without oxygen and a space-walker without a spacesuit woul...
The Solar Pepper
September 15, 2023 23:07 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBWhen a country suffers a curse that extinguishes all but the tiniest of flames, its people strive in spectacular ways to endure, to elude, and to break the curse. Genre: Fantasy, Mystery Excerpt: “Let it be as you claim,” the warlock said. “That there is ‘not enough fire’ in your country.” And then he spoke the words of his spell, his curse. And from thenceforth, only candle flames could abide in our country. What’s the Word (that inspired the story)? Heck if I know. There d...
The Mystery of Mrs. Highweather
September 08, 2023 22:39 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBWhen a new father searches through his childhood books for stories to tell his daughter, he learns that some of those books are linked to a hundred-year-old mystery. Genre: Mystery, Fantasy Excerpt: For generations, for nearly a century, the Rofotou family had been gathering the pieces of a puzzle that they believed would unlock some grand secret of the universe, or some extravagant treasure, or at least some profound piece of wisdom. But I didn’t know anything about that before a d...
The Traveler and Her Three Shadows
September 01, 2023 03:42 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBAfter their realm is cursed to suffer absolute darkness, four companions are tasked with finding the secret of breaking the curse. Genre: Mythology, Fantasy Excerpt: In those days, all people had the power to send their shadows off to explore the world around them, but those shadows could only travel in one direction, the direction in which they were cast by the sun. But these people with two shadows, they could send one shadow in one direction and the other shadow in the opposite d...
Castle Farouche
August 25, 2023 22:28 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBThere is a door in the basement of my new house that leads to nowhere, or so I thought… Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: When buds are twisted too tightly, they will never bloom beautifully, my grandmother always said, all the more so after she’d witness my staying in my little corner of the room at a party in our house while the other children played with each other. But she did not know that I was surrounded by friends in my own world, in Castle Farouche. That is…I didn’t thi...
Longpocket
August 18, 2023 07:29 - 34 minutes - 47 MBA young boy seeks to make his mother proud by picking the pocket of a man whose fortunes no one has ever managed to steal, not even the master thieves. Genre: Fantasy Excerpt: In the town of Pennyhaven, there was honor among thieves. For thieving was allowed, but only if done according to the strictest of rules, which were set by the Union of Thieves. The Union had a truce with the local constabulary to deal with any thief in town who did not abide by those rules. Their highest an...
A Waking Walker in Slumberland
August 11, 2023 17:38 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBTo rescue her kidnapped infant sister from a magical monarch, Parni and her pet rat enter the dream realm and pass through nightmare and illusion. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: Three days has passed since Parnika’s baby sister, Kulfi, has been taken by the Marshmallow Monarch. Such was the price of living in a town that bordered the famed and infamous slumberland—the source of all dreams and nightmares. Most people only ever visited slumberland in their dreams. But Parni’s p...
The Impassable Valley of the Flowers
August 04, 2023 06:55 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBA sixteen-year-old decides that her first journey alone will be into a forbidden valley of flowers that lies just beyond her town. Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy Excerpt: There is a valley, where grow flowers of every hue and kind, colors and fragrance in harmony. They singsongs, it is said, in spring and summer, songs whose ghosts and echoes can be heard in winter and fall. These flowers are singular, for each is inhabited by an animating spirit. The valley is haunted, they say. ...
The Antechamber
July 28, 2023 07:16 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBResearchers on the verge of a medical breakthrough must investigate why their advanced surgical machine works perfectly on some patients, and not at all on others. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Waiting. We’ve been waiting for thirty minutes. A nuisance, maybe, if I were out in the world on an er-rand or anticipating someone’s arrival. But here, in the antechamber, poised on the threshold of themost important thing I will ever do with my life, or the grandest failure of my life, th...
Velutinus
July 21, 2023 07:37 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBA group of friends recruits one of their dads, a biology teacher, to help them identify a strange creature they discovered after a freak storm hits their town. Genre: Science Fiction Excerpt: Dani, Jon, Ameena and I had volunteered to help clean up the school after the flash storm hit our town a few days ago. We would get our community service requirement done for that quarter. And we would have been hanging out anyway. “Safety first,” Dani said. And we all smiled and started work...