The Near Zone

The Near Zone: Fantasy, sci-fi, and roleplaying

  • The House of Knowledge

    The House of Knowledge

    CONTENT WARNING: Extreme violence, torture, and mass murder. “It’s up through the navy that this demon came. He was called Daoud and he took the form of a beautiful human, lean like a wolf, like a hawk of the land. He enlisted with the Armada as a matross and was employed on land, one of…

  • The Angel’s Bridge

    The Angel’s Bridge

    A sorcerer sits atop a mountain, basking in the light of a wonder, when everything darkens and he must fight for his life.

  • A Description of the City Anaris

    [wpedon id=”566″ align=”center”] Intended for the hands of my friend Boltar, 19th archivist of the Undannekan Library in Gazbek Greetings, I greet your father and your father’s father, all those in your clan, and all those in the Undannekan Library. I hope this letter finds you in stout health. Here I beg you to get…

  • The Creation Myths of Vahea

    The Creation Myths of Vahea

    Look into the birth of a fantasy multiverse with the four creation myths that explain reality’s beginning: the myth of Death’s Children, the Invention of Life, the War of the Five Hells, and the Seven Mortal Ages.

  • The Young Hounds

    In The Young Hounds we follow two children of the count, the militaristic heir and his more artistic sister, as they struggle to make sense of a world of war and an enemy they know only by rumor and legend.

  • Fatima and Jerod

    Fatima and Jerod

    A short sketch about two people trying to find happiness together in a future, the same way we do today.

  • The Houses of Humanity

    The Houses of Humanity

    A short description of the human civilization of a far future, where they are enslaved to the universe-spanning Sublime Organization.

  • Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    Programmer detective Selassie Maerich disrupts a backwater colony in search of a fugitive.

  • Empty Belly

    Empty Belly

    There’s a young man and a man-eating beast. They’re both hungry and persecuted. They spend the night together.

  • The River

    The River

    A judge shoots a young man. He refuses to face justice. And for that matter, why should he face it?

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