Haley Thistle

The Garden: Part One (special preview)

I had worked as a gardener most of my life. My father was a gardener and I worked with him when I was young. I started taking on my own jobs, building up my own reputation. I had a knack for flowers that people began to vie for. I could name my own price and people would pay it. 

It can all go away so fast. After some rumors got out, I was no longer the gardener everyone wanted. I struggled to find work, having to turn to odd jobs and miniscule pay to make ends meet. So when I rece...

Symbiote Boyfriend: Spite 6 (rough draft)

For the last couple of weeks, Eli has been away on a mission for the school. The apartment has been pretty bare and lonely, even with Spite around, I’ve missed having Eli to talk to. I didn’t realize how much I would miss him when he was gone, I mean, I knew I would, but this felt different than what I expected.

Eli and I had become close, even if we had a rocky start when I moved in. Back then, I was still getting used to Spite and Eli was still quite new to the world. He had never...

Dullahan Boyfriend: Ichabod & Iscariot (complete)

Small yet somehow endless, a world all of its own. A world created and formed to bring joy to those who enter it. A dream that has become something more than hope. I was brought here when I thought everything else had ended for me. Everything I knew, everything I loved, was gone. This endless place that is more than hope reached out to me in my grief. It called to me and invited me to stay.

I h...

Symbiote Boyfriend: Spite 6 (special preview)

For the last couple of weeks, Eli has been away on a mission for the school. The apartment has been pretty bare and lonely, even with Spite around, I’ve missed having Eli to talk to. I didn’t realize how much I would miss him when he was gone, I mean, I knew I would, but this felt different than what I expected.

Eli and I had become close, even if we had a rocky start when I moved in. Back then, I was still getting used to Spite and Eli was still quite new to the world. He had never...

Ronan the Werewolf: Finale (rough draft)

The fight didn’t last long, it just took time to get Beau off his brother. His brother was being held at the jail, for the time being, but we knew that he would have to be released eventually. We just had to figure out what to do with him until then. After all, his pack could be looking for him, and from what Beau has told us, the pack isn’t one you’d want to mess with.

We went back home to the farm, if only to help Ronan feel safer in his home. Ever since that night he’s been q...

The Yaoguai: Finale (complete)

Mari was the child of her mother’s second marriage. Her brother James, from the first, never quite warmed up to the idea of having a sister, let alone a second father. Mari never knew much about her mother’s first husband, but believed he died when he accidentally fell from one of the top stories of the hotel. When she was still quite young, her own father met a similar fate after a tree in the g...

Ronan the Werewolf: Finale (special preview)

The fight didn’t last long, it just took time to get Beau off his brother. His brother was being held at the jail, for the time being, but we knew that he would have to be released eventually. We just had to figure out what to do with him until then. After all, his pack could be looking for him, and from what Beau has told us, the pack isn’t one you’d want to mess with.

We went back home to the farm, if only to help Ronan feel safer in his home. Ever since that night he’s been q...

Ronan the Werewolf: Part Two (rough draft)

I finished painting Marshall’s room, which would now belong to the young werewolf who came into Hearthway Hollow. Beau and I agreed to take him in and we had taken classes in order to foster him for the time being. So we decided to redo Marshall’s room for him to stay in, while we put Marshall’s bed in our room.

The young werewolf had been in Dr. Wahl’s care for a few weeks now. He had been very malnourished and dehydrated when he first arrived, and he barely spoke at all. After...

The Yaoguai: Part Two (complete)

When Sun Bao was little, he used to love ghost stories. His grandmother would oblige his taste for the gruesome by telling him all matter of horrible tales. His parents absolutely hated it, but Sun loved his grandmother, and his grandmother loved him.

“Before your grandfather and I came here, we used to live in a small house in the middle of the forest. We would see all sorts of things there....

Ronan the Werrewolf: Part Two (special preview)

I finished painting Marshall’s room, which would now belong to the young werewolf who came into Hearthway Hollow. Beau and I agreed to take him in and we had taken classes in order to foster him for the time being. So we decided to redo Marshall’s room for him to stay in, while we put Marshall’s bed in our room.

The young werewolf had been in Dr. Wahl’s care for a few weeks now. He had been very malnourished and dehydrated when he first arrived, and he barely spoke at all. After...

Ronan the Werewolf: Part One (rough draft)

I was tucking Marshall into bed when I heard Beau come home. The door downstairs squeaked then closed gently, as he knew it was bedtime. Marshall had a big day, having gone to the doctor’s for his checkup. The doctor was amazed by his growth, almost three and already a tank, he was often mistaken for being older than he was.

Once Marshall was asleep, I went downstairs to find Beau at the kitchen table with a somber look on his face. As I stepped through the door his expression brighte...

The Yaoguai: Part One (complete)

As a photographer, Sun Bao worked an odd variety of jobs to make ends meet. He’d worked at a chain photography studio, trying to get families together to capture the ‘perfect moment’ for a christmas card. He had done crime scene photography, witnessing things gristly, heartbreaking, and with enough dead bodies to turn him off meat all together. Wildlife photography had been fine, save for the f...

Artist Spotlight: July 2020

July is my birthday month! And as such I wanted to do something special. For July I’m being together some of my favorites. We have Milton, Amit & Mythri, Jasper & Ashleign, Torok, and Dhaval & Himank.

Now here is what you’re getting!

$10 patrons will be getting the prints, and three of the stickers.

$20 will be getting the prints three stickers and a magnet.

And everyone higher gets everything!

Artists featured:

Milton: @vintagehoneybee...

Ronan the Werewolf: Part One (special preview)

I was tucking Marshall into bed when I heard Beau come home. The door downstairs squeaked then closed gently, as he knew it was bedtime. Marshall had a big day, having gone to the doctor’s for his checkup. The doctor was amazed by his growth, almost three and already a tank, he was often mistaken for being older than he was.

Once Marshall was asleep, I went downstairs to find Beau at the kitchen table with a somber look on his face. As I stepped through the door his expression brighte...

Selkie Boyfriend: Filip (rough draft)

A few weeks ago, you had made a mistake. Not anything too serious, nothing horrible or ghastly. Just an honest mistake. You had gone on vacation to visit family back in Scotland. While there, you had taken a lot of walks on the shore, when one afternoon, you had found a coat. You searched the beach for its owner, that was your mistake.

It turns out, the man was a Selkie. You’d never really believed the stories, because that’s all they were, stories. Filip was instantly smitten by yo...

Werewolf Boyfrined: Liam (complete)

I came back home to stay with my great-aunt about a month ago. I’ve been gone for a long time, traveling, working, whatever comes up. I returned to recuperate from an accident I had while on assignment. I’ve been traveling for so long I forgot what being settled felt like.

As I hobble around the house with my bum leg, my great-aunt gives me a cane her father used to walk with, though she sa...

Selkie Boyfriend: Filip (special preview)

A few weeks ago, you had made a mistake. Not anything too serious, nothing horrible or ghastly. Just an honest mistake. You had gone on vacation to visit family back in Scotland. While there, you had taken a lot of walks on the shore, when one afternoon, you had found a coat. You searched the beach for its owner, that was your mistake.

It turns out, the man was a Selkie. You’d never really believed the stories, because that’s all they were, stories. Filip was instantly smitten by yo...

Valravn Girlfriend: Vita (rough draft)

The ground is hot, grating gravel as you crawl across it, pulling yourself along as it scalds you palms and belly. You remain as low to the ground as possible, staying out of sight while the strangers wander around. They drag their feet along the earth, scrapping them so their feet bend back with the heel in the sky. As they lurch around, making those horrible death rattles in their throat, they charge at any sort of motion. They look like they would be slow, but you’d seen one charge a rab...

Rakshasa Boyfriend: Gael (complete)

Recently, you’ve started seeing someone you met on a dating app. He’s a Rakshasa, charming, sweet, and very handsome, and he has a good career. It’s a surprise to you that someone like Gael is so interested in you. He co-owns a wellness center where he works as a yoga instructor. For a while now, Gael has been asking you to attend his class on the weekends. You’ve had excuses for e...

Valravn Girlfriend: Vita (special preview)

You stay up waiting, watching from a crack in the door for any sign. When the rain lets up and the clouds disperse, the full moon casts its white light over the street. You open the door further and step out onto the muddy ground. You listen, waiting, hoping to hear Vita coming back.

Instead you hear a grunt and whimper, and curse under someone’s breath. You step out further, keeping to the shadows. You then see Vita against the wall of a house. She’s removed an arm of her armor and...

Dullahan Boyfriends: Ichabod & Iscariot 2 (rough draft)

Once the carnival started back in March, there still had not been a queen selected for Ichabod and Iscariot’s parade. I had been helping where I could, and organizing my band to play, but they were struggling still to pick just the right one.

Because I had been working with them regularly, I had started becoming close to them. It was not something I was used to doing, and I often grew anxious I was doing it wrong. I wanted to be their friend, but a fear inside me held me back from wan...

Kipine Boyfriend: Enoch (complete)

Growing up in Hearthway Hollow, you couldn’t have asked for a better childhood. You felt safe there, especially after spending your first few years in hiding. You and your father had to be kept secret, because your mother was part of a pack of werewolves who despised humans. When your sister was about to be born, your family fled to Hearthway Hollow. There, you were able to have a somewhat normal e...

Dullahan Boyfriends: Ichabod & Iscariot 2 (special preview)

Once the carnival started back in March, there still had not been a queen selected for Ichabod and Iscariot’s parade. I had been helping where I could, and organizing my band to play, but they were struggling still to pick just the right one.

Because I had been working with them regularly, I had started becoming close to them. It was not something I was used to doing, and I often grew anxious I was doing it wrong. I wanted to be their friend, but a fear inside me held me back from wan...

Dullahan Boyfriends: Ichabod & Iscariot (rough draft)

Small yet somehow endless, a world all of its own, a world created and formed to bring joy to those who enter it. A small dream that has become something more than hope. I was brought here when I thought everything else had ended for me. Everything I knew, everything I loved, was gone. This place that is endless and is more than hope reached out to me in my grief. It called to me and invited me to stay.

I had been alone for so long now. I had stayed in my home, letting it rot around me ...

Four Cards: Part Two (complete)

I’m angry after my meeting with Adolar and Ren, mad enough to want to break anything in my path. Not long after that, though, I meet with the current Joker, Uriah Finch. He was once a performer like me, and thinks my way of changing the mood of a room is necessary for someone in the role I could play in the future of the four families.

“You can make people happy very easily. Your jokes and ...

Dullahan Boyfriends: Ichabod & Iscariot (special preview)

Small yet somehow endless, a world all of its own, a world created and formed to bring joy to those who enter it. A small dream that has become something more than hope. I was brought here when I thought everything else had ended for me. Everything I knew, everything I loved, was gone. This place that is endless and is more than hope reached out to me in my grief. It called to me and invited me to stay.

I had been alone for so long now. I had stayed in my home, letting it rot around me ...

The Yaoguai: Finale (rough draft)

Mari was the child of her mother’s second marriage. Her brother, James, from the first, never quite warmed up to the idea of having a sister, let alone a father at all. Mari never knew much about her mother’s first marriage, but it was suggested he had accidentally fallen from one of the top stories of the hotel. 

When she was still quite young, her own father befell a similar fate after a tree in the garden fell on top of him. To this day, Mari could not recall a funeral even ...

I Ran Out of Prints!

Due to a new influx of patrons I was not prepared and didn't have enough of certain prints for at least five of my $10 patrons. I replaced them with some other prints and I will be upgrading everyone. $10 will not get both stickers, $20 will get the magnet, and I will be inlcuding a random suprise extra for the $50 and up patrons. So sorry for not having what I promised and I will plan ahead next month!

Four Cards: Part One (complete)

The Pips is a city in Miror which has sort of excluded itself from the rest of the kingdom. It’s not really a city, but it prefers to be called that over anything else. Rather than be run by the law of royalty, it has developed its own sets of rules. The enforcers of these rules are the Suits, four families who have taken control of the city and its populace through various means - The Zuanshi, the...

The Yaoguai: Finale (special preview)

Mari was the child of her mother’s second marriage. Her brother, James, from the first, never quite warmed up to the idea of having a sister, let alone a father at all. Mari never knew much about her mother’s first marriage, but it was suggested he had accidentally fallen from one of the top stories of the hotel. 

When she was still quite young, her own father befell a similar fate after a tree in the garden fell on top of him. To this day, Mari could not recall a funeral even ...