Garsecg
Joined June 2009 and calls rec.arts.comics.creative home.
42 stories, 255 challenges, 127 comments, and 21 friends
A very strange man whose strangeness is only partially due to Asperger’s Syndrome. He is an English major and now a grad student, in case you couldn’t tell, fighting a constant struggle to set aside some little time for writing.
Stories
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Abandoned
I don’t know how long I’ve been here. Can’t have been more than a day, but it feels a lot longer. See, there were seven of us. We got together to open the Door. I didn’t believe a word of it, but I was curious, so I came along. ...
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To the Silent City
She walked alone through the shadows of the forest, listening carefully to the speech of the birds and the trees. She was armed with a bow and arrow and the wisdom she had learned from her mother, from her first love now long dead, and from the animals...
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The Empty World
My world has never been an easy place to live in. Millions die every year from the alien invasions, the giant monsters, the never-ending battles between superheroes and supervillains. The near-constant warfare has wrecked the economy. But I am not afra...
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The Death of H.P. Lovecraft
Until this moment I never believed that there was any shadow of reality behind the mythology I created for my work. Letter writers inquiring about the history of the Necronomicon are inevitably disappointed to find that I invented it entirely out of my...
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The Indecisive Villain
In the Pit of Oblivion, the Chancellor said to the Underlord: “The Gray Invocation of the Spirit of Annihilation is all but ready. We only need gather some dragon bones, and…” “No, no, wait,” said the Underlord. “I h...
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Night Thoughts
He caught a glimpse of the face he wore in the antique mirror. It was the face of the man she loved in the world she lived in when she was awake. He didn’t know how a woman so radiant and beautiful could love someone as unremarkable as this, but ...
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...Or Forever Hold your Peace
I should have stopped at least one beer ago. But I barely knew anyone here except her, and I was miserable, so I had a drink to get over the misery, which made me more miserable, so I had another drink. And so on. I was about to leave when I saw her st...
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The Secret from the Stars
Abruptly, the burning sphere came to a halt. Its light began to fade and it slowly descended into the woods. It was not a rough, unformed hunk of rock like the meteors I had studied before but a sphere made of dark red stone with patterns engraved on i...
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The Pilgrimage
The young man traced the last of the pattern on the alley wall with chalk as the old man watched. “Are you sure you want to do this? No one from this world has taken the path to the Chapel Perilous and returned since the time of Merlin.” “Well, t...
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Requiem for the Light
The door was made of ruby and carved with patterns she recognized but could not remember why. A bright light shone through from the other side and she heard a distant music. It was as her own Song, a song she had forgotten for countless years. It made ...
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Interruptions
The young-seeming man sat down in his cramped room in the southwest attic. The whole room was crammed with books. They were his Hoard, the source of his power. On the desk was a griffin-quill pen and the book he had set about making. He had come to a c...
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The Painting
It is the most famous work of art in the Gallery: a painting of a woman dressed in blue standing by the seashore, staring into the distance as the sun rises or perhaps sets. Its beauty makes even the marvels of the House seem drab beside it. It seems m...
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The Ballroom
Once every month, a silent man in a crimson cloak walks the hallways of the House, delivering invitations to the Ball. He brings it to those of all classes and groups: rich and poor, natives and visitors, human and otherwise. If you are invited, you ma...
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The Seven Against Oblivion
“They said I was the world’s greatest hero. I had no idea how little that meant until I left my world behind. We came together from countless worlds to fight it. But we lost and everything was torn apart. Somehow I survived and wound up her...
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The First Step
“But how are we supposed to find a pirate?” asked Mandy. “You can’t just go out and get one.” “Hrm.” Montresor bent over Chris and sniffed. “You smell of magic. Come here.” He gripped Chris with his...
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Montresor
The fumes of the wine made Chris dizzy. He was no longer a bookish child but a bold and bloodthirsty pirate, sailing the ocean and cutting down his foes with a cutlass. It was thrilling and horrible at the same time.. “What are you doing!” ...
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Meeting the Locals
A horde of blue octopus-headed creatures were floating down from an airship. Each of them was dual-wielding a crossbows and loading arrows into it with its tentacles. “Jenny, let’s shift the hell out of here!” shouted Gates as they du...
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Back to the Garden
The garden is not the monstrous jungle you had been expecting, but a beautiful place where plant life of every kind imaginable and some you had never heard of grows together, seeming somehow both wild and ordered. Butterflies fly around you as if in an...
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The Gallery
Pass through the ornate wooden doors beneath the stained glass window showing the birds from which the Seven Noble Houses take their names and you will find yourself in the Gallery. Here works of art from every time and place are brought together with ...
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The Ruined Chapel
Leave the House by the back door of the Conservatory. Take the path that stands between the Dark Wood and the Tarn. You must go alone. Walk three miles and you will find the Ruined Chapel. In the Chapel the stained glass windows are shattered. A statue...
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The Jenny Everywhere Museum
This wing of the Infinite House was given by the Architect to Jenny Everywhere to store mementos from her adventures and dangerous artifacts. Only counterparts of Jenny and those they have chosen may enter it. Known contents include: Statues of friends...
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Deja Vu?
“I can’t remember whether I’ve been here or not,” said Jenny. “This place looks familiar, but there’s something wrong…” “What do you mean?” said Gates. “I can usually remember where I...
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Somewhere
Somewhere I’m showing you another world for the first time. You can’t believe that I can really shift. I ask you to close your eyes, hold you tight, and shift into another world. You open your eyes. At first you’re terrified but then ...
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Music of the Spheres
Ruby’s eyes had now adjusted to the light. What she saw could not be described in any human tongue. She saw the stars themselves at war against a vast dark thing burning with a hateful mockery of life. “Listen. Your name is Merope, youngest...
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Aureate
In the Lone Tower of the Nameless Land, amid the trophies of all the great nations of the world from the days when he still exulted in his power, stood Aureate. Like Auric his hair was golden and his features were delicately beautiful. But his eyes wer...
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The Lost Daughter of Hermes
Nology held out her left hand and a pattern took shape in red lines in the air. The materials she had taken with her rose up and filled the new pattern. There was a hush in the air followed by a blinding light and a noise like a great wind or the roari...
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Into the Nameless Land
For many hours the children of the House of Hermes were silent, lost in their thoughts. As the sun began to sink they saw the stars for what they all knew may be their last time. And then they came upon the Nameless Land. There were few trees here, and...
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The Red Book of Eromveren
In the Library of the Eromveren, there lies a red book. By ancient custom, any who can travel through the Dream Realms to their city and gain entrance in, of which there are few, may write in this book. Anything that is written in the Red Book shall co...
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Stand Fast
It was the third day of the seige of Kherem. The shades were howling in the air but had not yet pierced the barrier. Serenna was glad her watch would be over soon. She took the letter from Ewan from her pocket. “What have you got there?” sa...
