Category: Fiction
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Yule’s Dark Tide, part IV
The Other Hunt The darkness wore on, stretching long and heavy, a slow march of hours that seemed endless. Inside the cottage, time seemed to bend. The walls hummed quietly, with an unseen magic. There was a tangible presence woven into the flickering light from the hearth, and from the ethereal glow spilling from the…
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Yule’s Dark Tide, part III
The Light of Night The night outside was a thick, unyielding darkness, the kind that pressed in from all directions, thick as velvet and oppressive as the weight of the world itself. The wind howled, its mournful cries reverberating through the trees, bending their branches in unnatural shapes. Beyond the threshold of the cottage, the…
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Yule’s Dark Tide, part II
The Fallen Light The morning after the Wild Hunt, the world still lay under the cold weight of winter’s grip. The night had been long and terrifying, but the sun had risen again, bringing with it the promise of a new day. The first faint light of day struggled against the lingering chill, as though…
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Yule’s Dark Tide, part I (story)
The Hunt The night of the Winter Solstice draped the world in an eerie stillness, a breath held between the fading light and the encroaching darkness. A relentless frost had gripped the land, transforming the familiar world into a landscape of shimmering silver. The moon, a pale disc in the vast expanse of the night…
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The war of the Norse gods
This is the story of Ragnarök. First, imagine winter. Not just one winter, but three winters, one after the other, with no summer in between! Brrr! The snow fell and fell, the wind howled and howled, and people fought each other all the time. It was called Fimbulwinter, the terrible winter. “This is awful!” cried…
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Four more Loki stories: giants, a dwarf, and Freyja
The Giant Þjazi The aroma of roasted ox hung heavy in the air, a delicious promise of a feast for the assembled gods. They had hunted well, and the massive beast was turning nicely over the fire. Loki, as usual, was hovering nearby, probably hoping to snatch the choicest morsels. Suddenly, a massive eagle swooped…
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Four stories of Loki: Apples, death, wall, and hair
[[but.. why generate AI like this? Because it’s an interesting test of AI. Also, the stories are interesting, and I’m unfamiliar with them. I’d like to try to have voice generators for the various Norse mythologies at some point, partly because it’s fun history.]] Idunn’s Apples In the shimmering realm of Asgard, the Norse gods…