Uphoria offers anything to its inhabitants should they just only wish it hard enough... but at what price?
Excerpt:
Beauty. I have little memory of the world that was but I do remember beauty. Like a sweet, intoxicating wine that left a bitter taste in your mouth if you ever stopped drinking—not that you ever wanted to stop drinking. Beauty toppled kingdoms, incited jealous curses and even charmed the gods themselves.
It was important.
It was coveted.
It was power.
But like everything on the world that was, it was also fleeting. Rare, delicate and brutally transient, beauty had never been something one could actually hold onto. You could be something of beauty… but you could not possess it.
Or so they thought.
From Kiri Callaghan, bard and author of the One-Act Play "Funeral Potatoes", and Ren Cummins, author of the young adult Steampunk series "Chronicles of Aesirium", comes this series of childhood dreams, adult remorse and all the fantastic adventures which lie between.
"The Mermaid's Tale" is the sixth story in the "Into the Dust" series, and numbers to over 5,000 words.
Excerpt:
Beauty. I have little memory of the world that was but I do remember beauty. Like a sweet, intoxicating wine that left a bitter taste in your mouth if you ever stopped drinking—not that you ever wanted to stop drinking. Beauty toppled kingdoms, incited jealous curses and even charmed the gods themselves.
It was important.
It was coveted.
It was power.
But like everything on the world that was, it was also fleeting. Rare, delicate and brutally transient, beauty had never been something one could actually hold onto. You could be something of beauty… but you could not possess it.
Or so they thought.
From Kiri Callaghan, bard and author of the One-Act Play "Funeral Potatoes", and Ren Cummins, author of the young adult Steampunk series "Chronicles of Aesirium", comes this series of childhood dreams, adult remorse and all the fantastic adventures which lie between.
"The Mermaid's Tale" is the sixth story in the "Into the Dust" series, and numbers to over 5,000 words.
