ZannaShepherd

Once Upon a Time Part~1 Once upon a time in a faraway land, where magic was as real as the air we breathe, and Kings and Queens still ruled from ...

Once Upon a TimePart~2 Eighteen short years later, we find Nadia and her two best friends Layia, a Taylor, and Healer’s daughter, and Tenia, daughter of the Inn keeper’s, sitting ...

I originally started this piece for the 'If it were a Story' contest, but It got so long I entered a different one, and I'm still working on this one. ...

Games we don't want to play ~ With the dishes cleared, cleaned, and put away, I finished wiping off the table and took my seat with everyone else. “So, now ...

“I said no, Pixie, and that’s final,” Lion admonished from his place at the head of the table. “I told you so,” Chess gloated from the other side of the ...

Kill for the second best~ I rested my head against the inside panel of the hovercraft, the cool metal a welcomed distraction from my pounding headache and roiling stomach. I ...

We have our minutes cut~ I stood, breathing hard outside of the building from which I’d just escaped. Shoving my hands against my ears, I clenched my eyes shut, and ...

That's what the movies show~ “Lame, lame, lame.” Everything that surrounded me was absolutely primeval. It was almost like these humans were living in the destruction from a holocaust or ...

This is where stories go~ Lush green grass surrounded me, its soft texture greeting me as I lay in its embrace. Opening my eyes, bright blue sky stretched on as ...

Stars we don't want to reach~ I stared in despair at the calendar I held. Three pages were filled with thirty to thirty-one red x’s. I flipped the now full ...

Scars we don't want to stitch~ He seemed, older. More worn out than the last time I’d seen him. His curly golden locks were longer than I’d ever seen them ...

Fly away, time machine~ Love. . .love. . .love. Unh, no matter how many times I said it, or different ways I said it, I still couldn’t grasp the meaning ...

Clouds - we will chase them out~ Aliens. Every single site, page, or web cast I flipped through had something to say about aliens. Everyone, from Joe schmo living on ...

Crowds, we will face them down~ “Breaking News. Fifty seven year old, Ralph Snider from Texas claims to have come into contact with, what he thinks may have been the ...

This is our secret place~ I sat ridged in the seat furthest away from the driver, three rows back. The feeling of complete wrongness still persisted on beating away at ...

“A church?” I glanced to my left, where Pixie was surveying the lonely scene before us with obvious contempt. “Yeah?” Josh, half asked, half stated, not seeming to get why ...

Outer space, outer space~ “I don’t need you. . .” I couldn’t get Chess’s angry voice out of my head. Even with the distraction of my hardcore cleaning it was ...