Raised in Tennessee, Travis Lee’s fiction has appeared in The Colored Lens and Independent Ink Magaz...
The Face at the End of the World
The boys gathered to see the end of the world.
It was a four hour walk from Kale’s house to the blighted lands. Uncle Jon had warned him about the creatures in the forests: treespiders, serpents, riverdemons. But Kale was now fourteen, a man, and he was not going let child’s tales stop him.
Uncle Jon and Kale’s father had traveled from one end of the world to the other, across all eleven realms over which eleven great wizards held d. . .
The Face at the End of the World
The boys gathered to see the end of the world.
It was a four hour walk from Kale’s house to the blighted lands. Uncle Jon had warned him about the creatures in the forests: treespiders, serpents, riverdemons. But Kale was now fourteen, a man, and he was not going let child’s tales stop him.
Uncle Jon and Kale’s father had traveled from one end of the world to the other, across all eleven realms over which eleven great wizards held d. . .
Kale and his young classmate, David, watch the crossing of the whales during the final harvest of the season.
Kale kept a close watch on the moon. Uncle Jon rarely spoke of his father. What he said was short, leaving Kale to fill in the blanks and Kale had done this and now, as he was a man learning to become a warrior, there were no more blanks left to fill. Under the final sunsoaked moon of the harvest Kale wished his father were somewhere safe. He wished him a safe return.
The . . .
Kale and his young classmate, David, watch the crossing of the whales during the final harvest of the season.
Kale kept a close watch on the moon. Uncle Jon rarely spoke of his father. What he said was short, leaving Kale to fill in the blanks and Kale had done this and now, as he was a man learning to become a warrior, there were no more blanks left to fill. Under the final sunsoaked moon of the harvest Kale wished his father were somewhere safe. He wished him a safe return.
The . . .