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Gone Hunting and other short stories of Vardin

Gone Hunting

and other short stories of Vardin

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John Henry saw a healer touch a dying child and the little girl walk away. Rhiannon de Alyón is a Vardin hunter with orders to ensure his silence. She failed to reckon the price she would have to pay to succeed.

A hunt gone wrong, a child’s uncontrollable power manifested, and a horror about to be unleashed. A young hunter, Pesheneh, must join her father and his team to rescue the child from capture and her nation’s secrets from being revealed.

Born in a land hidden and separated from the rest of Europe by the Barrier, Casal is caught between two sides of her heritage. Will she bind herself to the land as a Guardian—or do the dangerous work of the Hunters who cross the Barrier?

Three stories of hunters with fantastic powers and the Barrier between two worlds.

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365 Challenge/Writing Challenge: Remembering Stories

This entry is part 25 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Remembering Stories

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Cayden/Llereya, Cayden, and Llereya de Calai
Pairings: Cayden/Llereya
Prompt: A memory from your chosen character.
Rating:
Notes:

In “Of Memory and Making,” Connor makes the decision to not share memory with his significant other. The choice seemed so significant to me and in_the_blue mentioned it. Here I wanted to show the healthy relationship established and continuing to develop between another couple whose memories have affected them just as deeply, if not more so. Here is a woman who has more self-control than anyone I have ever met. And there is a reason why.


She remembered the akhlakhai. She did not honor them.

It is Llereya’s birthday, a day for remembering what has gone before, but these are things she remembers alone. She does not like to honor her birthday.

   
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365 Challenge: Into the Temple of the Sun

This entry is part 24 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Into the Temple of the Sun

Canon: Faeology
Characters: Nyx and Fae Alend
Pairings:
Prompt: Who are you? / Here on a high shelf / In webbed flask I / Hook up my folded self...
Rating:
Notes:

So when I first got this prompt, I knew this was the story I wanted to write. It just took a few tries to get it right. Enough anyway.


Nyx was a wrongness that should not be.

Nyx is dying for fear that when she is reborn, she will cease to be… Nyx.

   
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365 Challenge: A Tale of Fae

This entry is part 23 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

A Tale of Fae

Canon: Faeology
Characters: Fae Alend and the Old Bard
Pairings:
Prompt: Fairy Tale
Rating:
Notes:

A dribble-drabble (150 words) for 100 Word Stories.


“Tell us a fairy tale,” the children cried.

The old bard loves to tell stories—of anything but Fae and her beautiful, terrible magic.

   
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365 Challenge/Writing Challenge: Of Memory and Making

This entry is part 22 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Of Memory and Making

Canon: Seven Days
Characters: Ashelynn Thompson, Connor Bryn, and Wesley Bryn
Pairings: Ashelynn/Connor
Prompt: A memory from your chosen character.
Rating:
Notes:

So this wouldn’t have happened if in_the_blue hadn’t done her writing challenge and graciously offered an example of how to work with story memories. So here goes.


What makes a person who they are?

Ashelynn likes her boyfriend’s easygoing nature, so it catches her by surprise when he suddenly isn’t, when the idea that our memories make us who we are nearly drives a rift between them.

   
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365 Challenge: Learning Legato

This entry is part 21 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Learning Legato

Canon: Kingdoms and Thorn
Characters: Pieter James Andrews, Red Wolf, and Ashen
Pairings: Ashen/Pieter
Prompt: his exact relationship with Ashen and Maybe a bit of a teaser with the lead up to her happiness...
Rating:
Notes:

Ashen had never thought she was normal.

Ashen was trained as a living weapon from her childhood, and now that she is free, understanding normal life—like coffee or love—is difficult at best. She turns to her mentor and her music to help her find the way.

   
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365 Challenge: Keeping the Balance

This entry is part 19 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

Keeping the Balance

Canon: Vardin
Characters: Serel Calaié and Bryn out of Calai
Pairings:
Prompt: Change
Rating: K+
Notes:

Writing can be like stone soup. You have a story simmering on the burner in a great pot and you throw in this and that and whatever you have in your pantry and wait until something comes together. This is another ‘something’ for the “Hunt the Mists” pot. Here’s to you, in_the_blue, for wanting more.


In Vardin, change is a balance.

Serel shows his son the balance between change and guarding against change.

   
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