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Short Story: To Whom the Future Belongs

July 7, 2017 By Josiah DeGraaf

This story was originally published at Kingdom Pen.

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Serena could change the future.

Most days it wasn’t all that interesting. She’d see a potential future in her dreams where she’d break a pitcher or lose a button and, upon waking, simply take a different set of actions to avert the mishap. A far cry from the days of her youth when a warlord had tried to use her powers to win conquests. But Serena didn’t mind the slower pace. It was better when people’s lives didn’t rest on her ability to alter the future. She’d become accustomed to leisurely visions of village life.

But then she foresaw her son’s death.

Serena sat on the edge of her bed, the battered wood rough against her stout thighs. Bells rang in the distance as she rubbed her cheeks. She’d went through this routine of sitting on her cot and rubbing her face every morning when she was in the warlord’s employ. It helped her focus on changing the future. But she hadn’t needed to concentrate this hard for a while, and the circumstances were different. Wrinkles etched her cheeks after many years of living on the earth. Her hands had toughened from being a washwoman since her husband’s death.

And now the stakes were much more personal. [Read more…] about Short Story: To Whom the Future Belongs

Filed Under: Chronicles of Morshan Tagged With: fantasy short story, josiah degraaf, short story, superhero short story, to whom the future belongs, writing stories that matter

Chronicles of Morshan Story Premise

July 5, 2017 By Josiah DeGraaf

What if superheroes existed in a fantasy world?

What if you could only become a superhero by pledging your allegiance to a deity?

And what if most of these superheroes only used their powers for themselves?

Over the next year, I plan on publishing a number of short stories all set in the world of Morshan, which explores what would happen if the above hypotheticals became reality.

Read the story premise below.

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Story Premise

Seventy-three years ago, the land of Morshan was on the peak of a new golden age. Gunpowder had been discovered, new agricultural techniques had been mastered, technology was at a high point, the kingdoms of the land were finally united, and the future could only be moving upward.

Then the gods descended. [Read more…] about Chronicles of Morshan Story Premise

Filed Under: Chronicles of Morshan Tagged With: chronicles of morshan, fantasy, fantasy short stories, josiah degraaf, short story, superhero short stories, superheroes, writing stories that matter

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