A character saga
Read 4 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Austin across different rivals and endings.
The saga shelf
Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The open plains of the Ashen Reach stretched beneath a sky the color of old iron, and it was there, in that hollow and wind-scoured country, that the wanderer and the warper came upon one another without warning. Austin…
Read the storyEater of the Hollow Plot The first thing Austin noticed was the silence. They stood in what should have been a busy transit hub—latticework of steel arches climbing toward a glass roof, ticketing kiosks humming with…
Read the storyThe Stomach of Heaven The dark throne-room of reality stretched infinite around Austin, its cold floor a mirror of void in which distant constellations drowned. He stood with his hands loose at his sides, the…
Read the storyThe classroom was still, save for the sound of cheerful crunching. Sayori sat atop a desk, her legs swinging, her small teeth sinking into a blue, book-shaped slab that bore her own name and that of a forgotten ship…
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