The Near Zone

It's Not New Zealand

Category: Stories

  • 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

    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

    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.