TG Sorcerer's Captions and Stories

 

 

 

The city wasn’t large, and it only had a few unreliable bus lines. Yet when people in need required to get to one point from another, sometimes, there was a strange bus that arrived just on time, that seemed to be mysteriously heading exactly where they needed to. This bus wasn’t part of any specific route, didn’t run on a specific schedule, didn’t even need to be called. It just showed up, somehow, ready to board the passengers for only a few coins. And the unsuspecting passengers would be too relieved and in a hurry to question its sudden appearance, or the strange glow in the driver’s eyes, as he welcomes them on board. They would sit down, unaware that as they head to their destination, they would slowly but surely change, so that they walk out the bus completely different people from when they walked in, all according to where they were heading originally. Over the years hundreds of people entered this old, rusted bus, thinking they were taking an express route to where they were ...

There was nothing strange or odd about the new antique store that opened up on Main Street. Except for the fact that it mysteriously appeared overnight, as if out of thin air. That and the fact that every single item in the store is cursed in some way or another. Of course, customers don’t know that last part, and anyone who comes in will find themselves unable to leave without buying precisely one item from the store and bringing it back home, even if they only intended to browse through the items quickly, or worse, didn’t even mean to come into the mysterious place. Such is the influence that the owner of this place has on its visitors. Afterall, being a warlock, who is a human who inherited mystical powers from a demonic ancestry, has its perks. Many cursed items are littered about haphazardly, eager to ensnare a mortal victim, and irreversibly change their lives and destinies forever. Antique binoculars which seem to make things seen through it not only closer but smaller as we...