A dark, fantastical tale that is intended to unfold a paragraph, or thereabouts, at a time.
2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Corded in smoke and consumed by an incorrigible, corroding preternatural fire, the disciple twisted through a chasm of black air. A roiling ember. A boiling star, tipped from the pitchy lip of Old Night's boundless cup. “F...
21 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01
Amongst the detritus and dolor of this long ago struggle, Lord Emberbole’s undergalley now bobbed and pranced. A copper-hued cork in a vast, black, subterranean bottle. Umin’s gloved fingers in thoughtful idleness twisted the atrous, crackling salt-...
5 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist $0.05
First there came a caressing vanguard: a wavy lap unceasing. Pressing and swishing bitumen-swells against the flotilla’s restive, salt-discoloured hulls. These waves grew measurably choppier, as the false-dawn born of bright Sufa and its obscene ho...
29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03
It is known that after the Paper God had abandoned the Here for the Otherwhere. Its unutterable consort, Sufa the Braided, descended into a maelstrom of horror and unbalance. Shedding tears of salt a thousand-fold more caustic than the anguish of any...
21 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03
He turns from his listless sea-gazing and peers at Pyna, who perches, still as statuary. Her eyes glistening like chips of cracked opal, wandering some unknowable middle-distance. “Do you ever speak, plainly.” Plain is not What Was Proffered. Someth...
17 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01
Her presence is silent and opaque. A secret place. A piece of porcelain penetralia. A puzzle-box, gazing meditatively out over the sloshing, nighted sea. Umin regards Pyna for a wordless moment, before turning to peer out again into endless, lightl...
9 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.10
Twenty-six bells, since the pair had boarded Meshmin’s flagship undergalley. Umin stood, rubbing fingers into weary, purpled eye-sockets and pressing tired temples. He is densely shrouded against the tacky salt-dew and chill, in a sombre sea-robe. ...
6 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03
The Shir is a beast of burden. In their youth they are diminutive, shapeless fleshy blossom-forms, drifting and filtering the lightless and grim under-flows of the Great Lower Sea. It is in this still unformed, latter quarter of their youth that they...
27 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.13
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… The Great Lower Sea. In prose poetical and spare, the Innulians have brooded upon its obsidian-salt gleam, long since before men and women first strode upright, and bartered their souls away to the gods. Its aspect is treac...
18 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.02
The chamber is blandly furnished. A grey tenement tepidly illumined by a few grey candles, and tin lantern-forks. Like silence, made skin and temporality, she drifts and snakes down the low lintel and onto a rough-planked floor blotted by the sour d...
