Chark Tales That’s shark, with a ‘C’!

Author: Chark
Rating: PG
Word Count: Approx. 3000
Summary: A young girl learns that she is linked with a prophecy, one that has been ten years in the making.
Excerpt: “…thought my birth and the tenth anniversary of it would be a heralding of… the apocalypse, maybe? I’m certainly no devil spawn or harbinger of doom.”
Warnings: None really, unless [...]

As the sun slowly rose over the horizon, the first rays of yellow and warmth touched the tips of each limb and needle along the tops of the forest. The sounds of life started to increase from the occasional chitter to the symphony of birds chirping as they began looking for that early worm.

Spinning backwards through time, like a toy top going round and round, fast at the beginning and slowly losing momentum. It’s the slowing down that causes me to careen from side to side, hitting moments of history — hoping deep down that my flight hasn’t caused disaster in the linear line of minutes and hours [...]