Those Who Have Ears Let Them Hear Novels & Stories

Astrid managed. The field did not make a sound. Not because everyone heard her clearly. Most of them could not have. Her voice was too broken, too small, nearly swallowed by crackling fires and distant wounded groans. But I heard her. Nyra heard her. Ethan heard her. Keiran heard her. And sometimes it only took a few people understanding a terrible thing for the whole atmosphere to change. Someone opened it. Not the barrier cracked. Not the breach widened. Someone opened it.

The First Key BOOOOM. The heartbeat echoed again. Deep beneath the fortress. Deep beneath the world. Deep beneath everything. The sound lasted only a second. Yet everyone heard it. Everyone felt it. Then silence returned. Immediately. Then Ava looked around. Then: "Tell me I imagined that." Nobody answered. Because nobody had. God. No. Fair. Absolutely not. Reasonable honestly. Then Eryx tightened his grip on his spear. Then: "Whatever that was..."

And when they all said what they were hearing, they knew the voice came to all of them at the same time. After some of the warriors asked them to turn back and check, that they were told that they’ll only hear voices of their loved ones at home and not the voice of those that are here with them. Obiokwu addressed them and told them never to turn back. They argued but he insisted that if they should look back and it turns out to be a ploy from the forces that they’ll all turn to various solid objects. Then he reminded them that at the entrance of this strange land that Dike warned that even if they heard his voice, let them not turn back till they are out of no-look back’ land.

Wooden necks creaked as they turned to face us. I tried not to pee my pants, even walking close to Octavius now. "Kill him," the faces told me. "Kill him." Octavius didn't seem to hear them. "Kill him." Without pausing in his steps, Octavius looked back over his shoulder at me. "Do you hear them?" I didn't want to admit that I heard them. I could lie that I wasn't paying attention to them but why bother? "Yes," I said eventually. "I can hear them."

Halfway through our reunion with some friends, my fiancée went missing. I was about to look for her when comments started popping right in front of me. "What's the second lead doing, coming to his car? The male and female lead are still going at it!" "I love seeing how his new car has become the stage for the lead characters' first time!" "That's what he gets for taking the male lead's spot for too long!" Our mutuals stopped us. "Helga's gone to get you a present. You should go back and wait." "Friends for life. They're covering up for the male and female leads," read one comment. "The beautiful female lead belongs to no one but the male lead! If I were there, I’d lie to that jerk too!

Three words that mean she has heard something from someone and is now activated and incoming and absolutely nothing about my day is going to be simple anymore. Call me. Now.

Aria slowly looked toward Adrian. Then toward Elena. Then she whispered: “Not you.” “Not me.” “It chose all of us.” A deafening sound shook the entire world. And far beneath the Earth, something ancient finally opened its eyes.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Nobody can save you now, the only sound is its battle cry.

I pressed my ears hard, the echoing acoustics of the stadium reverberating through my entire body. Once I saw the clapping stop, I unplugged my ears, once again able to hear my own thoughts. I’m coming. I swear I’m coming.

Kayla felt her ears ring as the words slammed in her head. What in the world we’re they talking about. Did they mean….her?