Power Colors Short Tales

A compilation of Power Colors Short Tales including: "Crum's Crystals", "Corporal Xasl", "Aarn Becomes A Man", and "Healing Cil" All these stories focus on people overcoming obstacles in a realm filled with those who can call the Power Colors and make magical things happen.

Compilation of 4 Power Colors Short tales including: "Master Mixer Sslasl", "Sslasl and the Mastery", "Mika's Art", and "Zaable's Destiny" All are stories of individuals that follow difficult paths to the mastery.

Aarn was the eldest son of a well-known landlord in the largest agricultural section of Amelus. Today they were going to evict a family who had not been able to keep up with the lease payments, and Aarn’s father insisted that Aarn would do the eviction. Only he knew these people, they had been hard workers for many years and had only recently fallen on hard times that would not last.

Like his father before him, Xasl struggled to make a living doing odd labor jobs moving from city to city as the seasons changed. Today marked three weeks since he had last found work enough to eat a real meal. When he saw a muscular woman opening the door to an office he did not recognize, he pushed himself to his feet and made his way over to ask her for work to earn a meal.

Crum had learned at an early age to polish and shape stones he gathered from the tailings of the nearby mines. Once or twice he had found shards of the crystals that were mined here and he would feel great comfort in their touch. But always those had more value than any of the stones he formed and he would invariably have to sell them to eat.

Born to a miner and a crystal cutter who worked for one of the largest crystal mining companies in the realm, Dem dreamed of one day becoming a crystal cutter himself. The Xum crystals that were mined and cut here were among the most valued items in the realm having the ability to help masters gather the power colors and bend them to their will.

A recovering drug addict who had lost her family, friends and career to a designer drug that nearly killed her, Cil struggled every day just to find enough food to keep her alive while desperately trying to convince potential employers that her days of self-destruction were over. After a fall, that knocked her unconscious she awoke to see a woman standing over her wearing the pin of Kre mastery.

Orphaned by unknown parents on the planet of G’Ham. Sslasl was raised in an orphanage run by G’Hass and her husband. When G’Hass’s husband died, Sslasl took on the orphanage financial responsibilities and worked wherever he could to keep food on the table while he prepared for and passed the mixer test to get a job in the chemical mixing factory.

The path of Sslasl's life led him to become a master mixer to support the orphanage. Then a fluke chance review of a proposed propulsion mix brought him to the attention of Master Masl. Now he was apprenticed to her in the mastery as he led a team to build a fuel mixer to allow war ships to travel extremely long distances without refueling stations. But fate was not yet finished with him.

Raised in the inner city where her father was an engineer in a transport factory, and her mother was a genetic scientist working on new strains of crops that would eventually be grown in environments that were less desirable for human habitation. Mika had always struggled with the social scene.

Raised in a mining community on a remote asteroid, where his parents worked the great mining machines extracting minerals from an asteroid belt rich in the components commonly used in spacecraft engines. Now he was nearing the age where the company would demand that he either learn to run a mining device or leave the asteroid belt for good.