Alex Vic: Stories

A most stereotypical story - farm boy encounters a wild dragon. It just may be not the stereotype you'd think. This is another workshop short story, hope you enjoy it.

Alternate Earth, where magic is truly a part of the world, woven into its fabric, society and life. Frenchman Alexandre Marcon, a graduate of Université de Paris, Ecole des Arts Magiques, finds himself nearly penniless on the streets of Bristol, trying to find a buyer for his invention, the perpetual light box only to find himself being turned away, until a Welsh engineer sees a potential in his work... This is the same world as George and a Dragon, maybe 50 years earlier.

It is hard to make living as an adventurer in a backwater town. It does not take long for all the bandits to be driven away, all goblins to be killed and looted, and all rat infestations to be eradicated but expenses just keep on going and going 'cause your healer simply does not compromise on her wine or on her comforts... Dedicated to all the kids that played D&D in my living room.

In art, a study is a drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece, as visual notes, or as practice...

Born on a long lost outpost of humanity, that only recently was reconnected to the wider galaxy, Leonora is at the end the rope. Her body is slowly succumbing to an incurable disease when she is given a chance at... something. A mysterious Traveler is offering her a future but warns that it comes at a risk. Welcome to Circe, an aboriginal world at outskirts of the known galaxy, where strange mists hide something with the power to upend the fragile balance that preserves the civilization.