A dark, fantastical tale that is intended to unfold a paragraph, or thereabouts, at a time.
15 May 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna and Umin moved swiftly to rejoin the corsairs upon the sable strand. Who stood therein the midst of their impromptu encampment, and gazed out upon the lethargic and atrous wash, as the abominable vessel of the Red Weaver listed, bobbed and loome...
18 Apr 2026 7 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Driven by a tender Cant of Breathing. The narrow, and nimble sea-craft cut silently across the caliginous soupiness of the Great Lower Sea. Umin reclined against the low prow, beneath the swaying amber-gleam of a copper se...
9 Mar 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna ran, unseen, and swift as a storm-harried ghost. Carrying the hunter, Eket out through the Omoorn's vile, vermiculated Arch and its attendant, ghastly grey things. One league. Then two. She fled, under a mantle of inhuman dread, through the fri...
21 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna swept, at first fearfully across the frigid powdery drifts, towards the distant and dusky marrow of the Meadow of Omoorn. Lissome as a spirit of ruby-swathed alabaster, while the crystalline, and alien chorale rose to a weird pitch. Unendurable...
2 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Eket Eket Awake Eket dreamed an odd dream. In a flat and snowy place. The pale wood-witch bent, a porcellaneous rag-doll of ribbons and black lace, looming and lisping above a bedraggled little boy. Who clutched something...
19 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Umin awoke from Pyna’s luminescent dreamscape with a downy sigh. Her cold, little porcelain fingers - supple as a newborn’s, yet unyielding as marble - still gingerly caressed his cheek and jawline. Her long mane, a cascade of wheaty-snow silk brush...
28 Nov 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Umin found himself suspended once more, in the deep Between of Pyna’s dreaming. Through her remembering regard, the fretted parquetry of Nimblethorne’s high manor gleamed with the reflected luminance of a hundred saporous-soft candle-flames. As befor...
28 Oct 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna peered out, her eerie eyes piercing the caliginous murk of the Great Lower Sea. She watched the overripe skull which she had hurled a ship’s length away and beyond, bob like an addled cork upon the inky wavelets. With...
2 Oct 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
She simply insisted upon a nocturnal sojourn. Eket balked. At the notion of blundering like a brute, through the coal-dark of the cold, and pathless woodlands. Even bearing a brand or lantern, the way would prove uncertain and perilous. Travelling t...
12 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… “Bone-eater…” The tatterdemalion figure stumbled forward through the rustling snow-piles, reeking of necrosis and pine-sap. Then leveled an arrow at Pyna. His quaking short-bow drawn taut with frost-tainted fingers. No I...
