Torsten was taken with his sisters to have his hands groomed.When he was little, he thought it was because he was too young to engage in warfare, but as he grew older, his schedule didn’t change.Instead of being taught how to sharpen a sword, he was taught how to read and write. Not just the basics, but how to read aloud well and how to write in long curling letters. When he was thirteen, he was sent to apprentice to a painter to learn how to paint. He would have liked it b...

Torsten sat in the window seat in his bedroom. Half of the stained glass window was flung open and sitting so near the window, he gave the whole court something to see. His beauty was rare and rich as he was the youngest son of the King and Queen. He was a prince. However, he had a very different fate from the other princes of the kingdom.He shook out his blond hair, blinked his coppery eyes, and hated everyone so thoroughly it should have melted the glass in front of his eyes and burned t...

Fizzbarren nodded at the simmer of the gears, tapping in a few granules of pearlized newt saliva. Only a few. One. Two. There. The solution didn’t look any different, but it was. It was enough. He carefully attached the electrodes to the plating solution. It was his last set of gears.“You must admit that this is a very drastic reaction,” the mirror attempted to speak rationally to Master Fizzbarren. “Every writer has writer’s block once in a while.”Fizzbarren grunted, but o...

Maybe, he had always known something was wrong.But he hadn’t discovered what it was until the day he spat hatred out his bedroom window. He was nineteen. He was more than a man and his clean hands painted and wrote. His trained voice spoke and sang. His gloved hands handled a horse well and his clothes were unstained in his own blood, which set him apart from his brothers.Earlier that day, the answer to Torsten’s evaded question had been revealed. A bird had arrived at the ...

“One bite and you disappear” – that’s how boutique bakeries usually boast about their invisible cakes, but this batch contains a deadly secret ingredient – so one bite literally means you disappear…Who would want to kill young people? No one seems to know this girl outside of Valencia Veemer's bakery - "charming gourmet food"?Who was that scruffy man they saw hanging out, only to disappear so quickly?Who is that girl?Why did they frame Valencia for the murde...

An inmate named Gemmei has a chance to put her life on a better track after being transferred to Hibiya Correctional Facility, a low-security prison allegedly designed to hold less violent offenders. However, even though the walls that held her inside are no longer visible, there are still many obstacles preventing Jemmy from returning to the world she once took for granted. Chief among them is Houzou Hakkyou, a special tattoo that every prisoner in the system receives, altering their thou...

The knife points in the ceiling over the tub were glaring at Fayette. As far as they were concerned, they almost had Torsten. He was going to get in the tub and when his skin was burned by the acid, they were going to fall on him. Each and every one of them thought that they were going to be the ones to get him in the eye. He had two eyes so their chances were doubled.Not only were the knife points working their diabolical magic, but the wood that sat under Torsten’s clothes had fr...

An inmate named Gemmei has a chance to put her life on a better track after being transferred to Hibiya Correctional Facility, a low-security prison allegedly designed to hold less violent offenders. However, even though the walls that held her inside are no longer visible, there are still many obstacles preventing Jemmy from returning to the world she once took for granted. Chief among them is Houzou Hakkyou, a special tattoo that every prisoner in the system receives, altering their thou...