A Void Novels & Stories

"Attention, after meeting with your next group, you may retire for thirty minutes. For the last switch, please listen up," the male Kea says, and the chatter around our table halts. The rest of the room falls silent also and I lift my eyes from my lap. I have been avoiding eye contact for the last two rounds. I am emotionally exhausted. Every group since the Froles has been pleasant, but I have never been exposed to this many people. I feel like my energy has been zapped away from me. I want to make friends. I really do, but I don't know how to interact yet and my anxiety makes me tired.

Ace's hands slid beneath my silk gown so he could circle his thumb over my hip bone. I rolled my eyes, not caring to push him away because it would be futile — if he wanted to do anything to me he simply would have, "As I said, I'd call you and you'd take the body to a remote location. If it's premeditated then we'll already have a vertical grave dug because it's far more difficult to find someone in a vertical grave, if not, I guess we will be digging all night. Then, we will cover the grave halfway and place a dead animal horizontally across to throw off the scent from search dogs."

“But first, you need to know—this won’t be easy.” We gathered around a small fire in the clearing. The pack kept its distance, their suspicion of Liora obvious in every glance they directed her way. Liora crouched near the fire, sketching figures in the dirt with a stick. “The Void doesn’t exist here by accident,” she began. It is grounded in this reality. It is so powerful because of this. "How can we cut the anchor? Kael asked, keeping a careful eye on her while crossing his arms.

"They call you Null. Zero. Empty space." I grabbed the teenage boy. I handed him the rifle. The weight made his shoulders drop, but he gripped the stock. Static pricked his fingertips. "I am the Void," I told him. I looked into his eyes. "I am the biggest nothing in the world. And I am going to eat their King." I looked back at the army. My heart hammered against my ribs. Pounding. Painful. "Show them that empty space is dangerous. Show them that you are the end of everything."

Laura, pointing angrily at Serena, retorted, "Without the Vale family, you're just a little nobody. Let's see how you live without us..." Serena was mostly indifferent, but being called a nobody struck a nerve. What kind of parents call their own child a nobody? Taking a deep breath, Serena replied, "If I'm a nobody, then what does that make you? Without your sperm and egg, I wouldn't exist. If I'm a nobody, then you're the parents of a nobody, aren't you?" Laura was so furious she fainted on the spot. Katrina, alarmed, rushed to help, calling for the servants to assist in getting her to the couch.

He looked like a man holding onto sanity by his fingernails. "Don't you think I'm trying?" Vida snapped, wiping blood from her nose with her sleeve. "This is Void Magic, Daxon. It doesn't play by the rules of nature. It demands a specific key. A frequency. Without it, this book is just a paperweight." I stood in the corner, deep in the shadows, swirling my own drink...a vintage scotch laced with a few drops of O-negative I kept in my flask. I wasn't looking at Vida. I was looking at Mathias.

EVE “I'll be right behind you” he said, it's been twelve days already. repeating my words, and giving me back the hope I thought I had lost that night back in Avignon. We stood in that parking lot, and it only took no less than five minutes. Five minutes for the crushing weight that suffocated me every night for the past month to disappear. Five minutes for me to look at him and realize that I'd always find my way back to him. Five minutes to recognize that without him, I didn't make sense.

Her voice trembled. “…was your father.” Silence crashed through the greenhouse. Hope gasped. Cal nearly dropped an entire tray of seedlings. I stared at Void instantly. His entire body had gone perfectly still. Not angry. Not even shocked anymore. Just… hollowed open by the possibility. Because some absences become so old you stop believing they ever had names. The lantern flowers around us glowed softly silver-gold. Void looked down at the photograph again. At the child he used to be.

NATALIE. “I believe she is possessed by Void.” You have got to be kidding me. “Void?” I ask. “Are you sure?” “Yes, very sure,” he answers “How do you know it was him? It?” “Like I had informed you earlier, I have an immense library full of records of Void. How he works. Whom he targets. And there was also the fact that the aura I felt coming from her- him- it, was without a doubt, pure evil. And cold.”

Them boys love them some Call of Duty. I was putting my cornbread in the oven when Aza ran into the kitchen. "Mommy, i was showing da-da the new toys you bought me. Can he stay and play tea time with me?" She asked innocently. She jumped in my arms and gave me a lil peck on my lips. "Of course Sweetie! He can stay as long as you like." I looked up at Damien and gave him a little smile. He reached out and gave my shoulder a squeeze.