Aug 17, 2024
In a desperate moment, a mage casts an unpracticed spell to save himself, but may have doomed himself instead...
Genre: Fantasy
Excerpt:
Of course Panofus knew the procedures and had run many drills, but
he had never expected to use that particular part of his training.
He should have paid more attention to the rumblings and rumors of
demonic invasion.
He had a plan for escape. A simple plan. If he could see his whole self in a mirror and reverse the image in his mind, he would be able to cast the spell of invisibility upon himself and escape.
What’s the Writing Prompt that
inspired the story?
If you could be reincarnated as an
animal, which animal would you choose and why? Write about your first day
living as that animal.
Source: A Writer’s Year:
365 Creative Writing Prompts. Text by Emma Bastow. Copyright ©
2019 HarperCollins Publishers
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CREDITS
Story: “Panofus”
Copyright © 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Trip-Hop
Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital
Emotions (Intro/Outro)
Music by NICHOLAS JEUDY (Dark Fantasy
Studio)*
“Runes”
“Flames on ice”
“The last stand”
“Blood on snow”
“Call of the wild”
“Fallen leaves”
“Northern dusk”
“Winter guild”
“White river”
“Written in stones”
“Adventure”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Nicholas Jeudy licensed from GameDev
Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
Vocal effects created with Audacity
Changes made
to the musical tracks? Just cropping to align with my
narration.
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at audiojungle.net
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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. At bottom center, a man seen from shoulders up, facing forward and looking down. Five hazy glowing lines are arrayed behind his head. Each line leads to an animal, depicted as an outline filled with a different solid color. Clockwise from bottom left is a standing dog, a fish with body bent to the side, a bird positioned vertically with outstretched wings, a monkey sitting on a branch, and the head of a hippo emerging from water with mouth open. Watermark of “Storyfeather” along bottom center. The rectangular image is made square with borders at top and bottom that display a pattern of squares in colors that match the colors of the main drawing.