Portal Stories

I ambled into the bathroom bleary-eyed and fumbled with the sink faucet. I rubbed cold water into my eyes and prepared myself for a much-needed day off. I sighed deeply and considered what PC game I was going to play first. "Yeah you gotta see this fucking thing..." My thoughts were interrupted by muffled conversation trickling from my sister's room. "...I don't know where he got it..." Our bedrooms were connected by a ne...

The hasty rapping at my front door and the soft thud on my patio told me that it had arrived. "Mom!" my younger sister shouted from down the hall, "Someone is at the d-" "Shut up." I cut her off as I ran to the door. I quickly gathered the small package from the patio and shuffled back to my room, my sister eyeing me suspiciously as I pushed past her in the hall. "It's for me," I mumbled as I shut my bedroom door tightly...

The glowing circle was entrancing, strange glyphs rotating in concentric rings around an eight-pointed star, the iridescent color shifting in waves like the refraction of light through a clear pool in summer. The eerie glow dimly illuminated the bedroom, bathing the tidy space in shimmers of teal and pink. It was a good thing Eva lived in the countryside without nearby neighbors, she didn't want to draw unnecessary attent...

Anya had never expected something so exciting to happen when she first touched the mysterious runes. Flipped on her back and suspended in midair, her arms were restrained behind her, her calves and thighs bound together and spread wide, allowing ample access to her luscious, dripping holes. Only minutes ago, she had been in a mountain cave, having hiked deep into the forest, following clues left in ancient texts. She coul...

Nobody could have predicted what we unleashed when the portal ripped open. We were mere physicists. Nine to fivers in corporate lab coats. Four mortals driven by the human need to explore. Understand. Know. The trouble with knowing? It's impossible to un-know. Consequences didn't factor into the equations scrawled across the whiteboards hanging behind us at the far end of the tiled tube chamber. We never considered what w...

Bill was wandering through the now small realm that led to where the portal for the processing center was while making sure that Malin followed. He thanked God for that they had finally changed it so it wasn’t that long anymore. It had been about time he had fixed this long road. It had been about time that the Big Boss actually had gotten a finger out and done something. He had been rather quiet for over two millennia. “...

Thunder Rocks immortal guardsStanding sturdy/strongStalwart seminal legacyTestudines guardian throngs Posing hard on seeds from stonePositioned for maiden head hearthMoltenous reservoir fountainheadsArterial spawning bed prongs Gratuitous sentinel sensing your needSpewing forth sea salt spray curesCopious legions "chiseled" and "cut"Pumping stalagmite type lures Reef-rock treasure huntsDiving for mother-of-pearlNeptune gu...