Category: Stories
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 6
Why else would you Vision bring us together? That’s what Angel asked me the night I declared my love for him, and he declared his for me. Things happened fast between us after that. We’d already been living together, already comfortable with one another. It only made sense that we take things to the next…
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 5
It’s not long after Angel gives birth to his twin girls that I am taken by the Celestials as well. This does not result in a pregnancy, thank goodness, but does leave me with more questions than answers. I am told that Angel’s baby will be special …or ‘not like any others on this, or…
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 4
It’s not long after my encounter with the Celestials that Elaine learns that her mother, Delia, has died. She was an old woman, by this time, and death is a natural part of life. Despite the fact that Delia Caine relied more upon her logic and intellect than her Magicks, she is given the Urn…
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 3
My name is Angel… well, that’s as close to my actual name as most people on Dry Earth are going to get. I gave myself the last name Douglas because it means ‘dark river’ and I thought it sounded strong, yet poetic. In my youth, I became fascinated with artists from this world who came…
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 2
The thing to remember is that, being five generations into our family’s Mission, that a lot of changes have taken place since Austin Caine first set foot in the abandoned desert town of Oasis Springs. It isn’t as abandoned as it used to be. My family has built two houses in two different areas of…
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Drifter Challenge – House 5, Ch. 1
My name is Elaine Caine, and I come from a long line of a very dedicated family. We are special in a way that no other family is … because our ancestor, Austin Caine, received a Vision just before he became a Young Adult. You see? Austin came from a reputed Magic family, but possessed…
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Drifter Challenger – House 4, Ch. 7
Tradition being tradition, as soon as the weather is nice enough, we head to the park in Oasis Springs to hang out. Elias meets us there and we spend the long, glorious day skating and playing chess. Fiona runs off with some kids and plays on the swings. Salvatore and I try our hand at…
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Drifter Challenge – House 4, Ch. 6
We celebrated two birthdays recently. The first, my husband and life mate, Salvatore, became an elder. He has always been older than I am, but I never felt it so much as now. It does not help that pregnancy and child birth extend my age. But I am so young now and worry that we…
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Drifter Challenge – House 4, Ch. 5
This is Sixam, the home-world of the Celestials. It’s so beautiful and for a moment, I wish my brother Elias could see it. I have often wondered if the Celestial hybrids who dwell here have the capabilities to go there. It took me so long to create and refine the portal in our lab. Could…