PRL Serials

  • The Deft Hands of Zacchaeus – 1 – Canned Heat Blues

    Zacchaeus vs the Odd Man  in Tunk (*Zacchaeus rules), best of 3 *Zacchaeus rules tunk There are many variations of the game of tunk, but the rules are simple. Players start with five cards and to win, they attempt to reach fifty points with all face cards; or they can spread all of their cards…

  • The True Start of the Dark Parallel (3)

    Sampling of Arcane Distinctions of the Universe (listed by rank of arcane mastery, highest to lowest, and grouped by planet of origin listed alphabetically) with no known planetary origin: The Master of Universal Arcana Repulsor The Alia Wazad the Wonderful with origins on Druont: Razew Supreme Lead Scientist Beta God with origins on Earth: The…

  • The True Start of the Dark Parallel (2) – The Origins of Universal Magic

    The cruelty of AEther‘s half sibling, Past, perisis to the relative present, but unbeknownst to it, AEther has a twin that was born from the same magical embers at the first wound in Space. This sibling is known as the Quintessence and followed alongside AEther through all of its existence like a dark, unseeable shadow.…

  • The Master in: The Ill Nights – Issue 3 – Help From My Friends

    Issac was in a universe where much of the Earth’s landmasses were covered by gigantic trees and humanity made their lives in the high canopy of the trees. Some lived on the forest floor where clearings existed, but most had elaborate homes and businesses built into the tree trunks high over the ground.  In the…

  • The Master in: The Ill Nights – Issue 2 – Nemesis 

    Anesu Chimutengwende is a witch. She is from a family of very powerful magic users and since she was a little girl and saw her mother use her mind to move things around their house, she became obsessed with the words her mother used to control her surroundings. Anesu was a perfect student in her…

  • The Master in: The Ill Nights – Issue 1 – Threats Abound

    “What can I do?” Issac was in a place of light and even in the form his consciousness took in that place, he felt the heat of his surroundings. Issac’s body was in the Museum of Aphro-Arcana in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but he manifested a replica of his body in that realm of light through…

  • Make That Change (Matt Costa) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    A PRL Anthology Series There is a  building being constructed in the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, home of Winthrop University. The site of construction is at the corner of Cherry Rd and Oakland Ave, where the Archives and Special Collections building still stands; it seems that contractors hope to extend the building for…

  • They Live – August 19, 20XX End of Chapter 1

    August 19, 20XX The last news that Rodney Coffey received from his daughter and eldest child, Lashon, was good news. It made Rodney so happy that he forgot about his nightly routine of waiting until he was sure that his sons were asleep or lost in video games or movies in their rooms, before turning…

  • The House of Sorrows 1. End of Chapter 1

    “She’s not doing well,” the graduate student, whose name was Alex, said to Dr. Geoffrey a few days after their first group session.  They were in the doctor’s office on the top floor of Dix that had the most privacy from patients. Dr. Geoffrey frowned as he looked past Alex and into nothing, collecting his…

  • Selections from Rebel Max’s Journal (Vol 1 2021 Annual) – Issue 1 – PTSD

    I was born in Ladoga in the late nineties, around the time the state of North Carolina’s population ballooned from the injection of migrants, mostly from Mexico, into the state. There are a lot of theories as to why there was such a dramatic growth in the migrant population, but the one that I think…