Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam prompt: secret passwords.

The safest way to get around Kalinia was mirror travel. Every magician had a mirror in one of their rooms and all of the mirrors had different passwords. Sometimes a magician would attempt to work out the password for someone they didn’t like, to attempt an assassination, but that ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam prompt: A surprise trap door.

At first all Lance could do was sit where he’d landed. There’d been no warning before he fell through what he guessed was a hole and he was certain that it hadn’t been there when he’d walked to work. No one had told him about it either, which seemed a little strange because it ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam picture prompt: http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/1920×1200/2009/Fantasy_Portal_015372_.jpg.

‘There are doors, and it seems like the number of them is increasing, that will take you to different places ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam prompt: Portals only work for the person who made them-but they can be made out of any material, using any craft.

‘Magic is an evolving thing in the Web. When the fae first stepped onto Athare they were the only race and their decision, which even now seems ludicrous, was to create more worlds. The problem ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunded Creative Jam prompt: pull down the stairs that ye may go up.

Mackenzie checked to make sure she was alone before she reached up with her hand and grabbed hold of the chain. Only certain magic users were permitted to know of its existence, because it led to a safe place mostly inhabited by the thieves. She was lucky to be ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam prompt: A door that only lost people can find.

‘It’s unsurprising, considering the number of different types of natural door, that there are stories of a door that only lost people find,’ Leolin wrote, dipping his quill into a bottle of ink. He gathered stories about the demons, the doors, and everything he ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam prompt: A book turns out to not really be a book, but one of those hiding-places-things-disguised-as-books, and the thing that’s hidden is a portal.

It looked innocuous, just another book on a shelf full of books, until someone opened it. Then… well, it wasn’t just a book. Not for everyone. Most people would ( Read more... )

Written for a Crowdfunding Creative Jam Prompt: Food as a portal.

Tattoos were expensive, which meant that there were those who found themselves unable to travel and trapped on the wrong world. Annabelle had, once, long ago, been one of them, until something magical had happened. It took her years to work out what it was, but thankfully the Walkers ( Read more... )

Written for Dreamwidth user jb_slasher’s prompt. I hope this was at least kind of what you were after.
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Written for Livejournal user ysabetwordsmith’s prompt: Autumn twilight, the crisp air and the way the season smells.
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