Cold Fire

The fire was greenish blue, very beautiful, very fierce and hauntingly serene. As I reached out, I could feel the intense cold coming from it, for it emitted a deep cold, and froze me to the core....

It was In The Cards

He could not believe it. No matter how many times he shuffled the cards, and drew the last card in the reading, it always came out the same. The poor man broke out into a cold sweat, and finally accepted his fate....

Majestic Beauty of Night

Looking over the ridge, I gazed down into the valley and saw pyramids jutting out of the glistening sand. The crystal clear night sky, with twinkling stars, offered a stark background to the beautiful sight before me. The stars seemingly aligned perfectly, and the tops of the pyramids glowed with an ancient energy known only to them and the ancient priests whose long forgotten religion spoke of this event...

Mute Testament

        The portal stood out, a bright blue light among a ruined landscape, ravaged and destroyed by war, a mute testament to the conflict and death that the former masters of the land had wrought upon themselves. The once mighty city, now a desolate shell and tomb for an untold number of former inhabitants whose skeletons lie trapped within it. At night the ruins gave off a soft radioactive glow that could be seen for miles.
         The traveler gazed upon this landscape and sighed heavily. Once again, he stepped through the portal, ready for whatever unknown world awaited him on the other side.

Doorway

He waited at the gate late into the night, for many hours, surrounded by the blackness of the night, lit up in its dazzling starry sky. As dawn approached, he was greeted by the brilliant light that emanated from the gate's entryway. Where the gate opened to he did not know, but still, he went forward, and entered...

Alignment

Looking up into the sky, I watched in horror and amazement as the planet slowly came up into view, and blocked out the sun. The sun, bringer of life and light, was gone. Our glorious ages of light was replaced by a new age of darkness....

Truth

To his absolute horror, he discovered the awful truth. The ghost was real, and indeed it did haunt the abandoned asylum, and he was it's next victim...

Beautifully cold

He gazed up in amazement at the night sky of this cold, frosty, ice covered moon. Tens of thousands of stars greeted his vision, each one like like a tiny point of cold light, far off in the distance, beckoning him.