Storyfeather
Mortals wield godly powers, eggs appear out of enchanted pockets, sentient substances are invented, and stars are incubated in the hearts of humans. I'm Nila, and I have stories to tell you. Stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, fairy tale, mystery, and mythology. Welcome to Storyfeather.
Episodes
The captain and crew of a vessel-for-hire cautiously agree to help a banished merman prince find his hidden realm in exchange for a lavish undersea treasure.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
"What did he look like, Captain?" someone asked. "Did he have long sharp teeth, like a pike fish?"
Our ancestors possessed powers and protections that were lost upon the destruction of a machine that had only one function, providing each person with a name.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
Tempest and storm. Disease and death. Creatures who hunted humankind as prey. Beings who pursued humankind ou...
A thief and an investigator each try to convince the other to accept the truth about the unparalleled treasure that is the Flaming Jargonelle.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
And the thief spoke. "Most of the stories say that when the Flaming Jargonelle is struck by any kind...
In the alley behind the factory where they toil, two friends discover something that may lead to their salvation...or to their doom.
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology
Excerpt:
The statue was a depiction of a "vas vespertilio," an idol carved specifically to be the vessel for c...
A man opens his new briefcase and discovers that something else lies beside his files, something…vast.
Genre: Mystery, Mythology
Excerpt:
"Once," she started, "the world was filled with different beings than the ones that now fill the world."
A cartography vessel mapping a sector of space that's expected to contain nothing of interest encounters…something of interest.
Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery
Excerpt:
"This thing is changing by the hour. We may not have time for Vessel 86 to arrive before some...
Hoping to find some inspiration and direction in life, an aimless young woman buys a top hat at the estate sale of a magician.
Genre: Mystery, Mythology, Science Fiction
Excerpt:
Ro checked the bookcases and found some intriguing titles.
When two friends hear a commotion in their mysterious new neighbor's apartment, they go to check, only to find the door open, and the apartment completely empty...well, almost empty.
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy
Excerpt:
The only object in the entire apartment was lying on ...
A tourist is stranded after a mysterious incident destroys all the paths leading to the tourist's home, a seemingly identical city that once existed just beyond the surface of a mirror.
Genre: Fantastical Mystery
Excerpt:
"I'll be damned," I heard a voice say. My roommate's voice.
An elven traveler grants a king a priceless power in return for an equally priceless treasure.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Excerpt:
The elven traveler leaned closer and whispered to the girl.
"What kind of life can he give you? Closed off and cloistered? Stuffed into cor...
A cursed young woman seeks the aid of a queen who walks through dreams to reach a sister trapped in eternal sleep.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Excerpt:
"Turn back," the queen said. "I want no curses in my kingdom."
Clara explained as quickly as she could. "I am not t...
In a realm where the learned are held at the highest esteem, a fool is called upon to challenge a trickster.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Excerpt:
"I visit you because I am curious."
"I think it's because you want to be the first trickster w...
A visitor from another realm encounters an overwhelming and mysterious phenomenon that bears further investigation, rain.
Genre: Fairy Tale
Excerpt:
"When I was young, my mother told me a story about the rain. I was afraid of it, you see. And what she told me didn't help much with that." He wi...
Even before the mountain began to rumble, one mortal had begun to doubt his decadent gods.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
We are descended from a powerful people. So it is said. The most powerful our world has ever known. Their might unmatched. Their domain unending. Their eyes all-seeing.
...
Troubled by the tragic tale of a queen, who suffered because of a quarrel between two gods, three children question and alter the story.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
For the thing that lurched from shadow to shadow had been summoned by godly powers and imbued with godly powers. As it passed, it l...
A philosopher, a mage, and a swordsman are sent on an impossible quest from which they know they will not return alive.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
The philosopher felt her heart go still. She felt the cold steel of the swordsman's sword quivering by her right side. She felt the warm spark of th...
The story is told of how nine little gods came to be honored at a feast where they dared not show their faces.
Genre: Mythology
Excerpt:
The new mortal-made masks were so fantastical and magical that they could not easily be distinguished from the masks of the gods.
In a realm cursed to lie under a gray veil, one man accepts a job patrolling a neighborhood to watch for unauthorized breaches.
Genre: Fantasy
Excerpt:
He had given up on his childhood fantasy when he realized that people had already found ways to break the curse, and had tried those ways and ...
The terrifying night phantoms that haunt a once-forbidden wood are never seen by day, until one morning when an ordinary man encounters a phantom trapped in the sunlight.
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology
Excerpt:
Something terrible had come into the world. Something evi...
A person struggling with heartbreak is drawn into the history of a garden filled with morbid beauty.
Genre: Fantasy
Excerpt:
Branches terminating in skulls.
Transparent petals whose vessels glow white as bleached bone in the dark.
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