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7 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
By the time an apparently not-overly-concerned Clay arrives on the scene, it’s almost noon. At Emily’s insistence a number of them are loitering around the main house’s lobby, in front of Grace’s counter, which affords a tremendous view via i...
3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney
Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...
31 Dec 2024 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Denise had done her homework before reaching this decision, slowly accumulating what she needed over the past couple of weeks. Even so, when limited to what one might carry on one’s person, running out of supplies remained a legitimate c...
27 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Together the niveous pair - one willowy tall, the other urchin small - drifted with the mild night air through Nimblethorne’s broad-halled manor. Footfalls mute as those of solivagant spirits. The chambers were wide and lowering, and the narrow hall...
27 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
He gazed into the vast space of nothingness while sipping a dense black fluid down his wrinkled neck. He turned his back on what looked like a window and started walking firmly on a thick glass floor. Underneath, you could see various creatures handc...
26 Dec 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy knows enough about Denise to recognize when she means business. Therefore he makes a point of rising early himself in the morning, before the hysteria kicks in concerning her absence. He has business to conduct in Stokely, and knows th...
20 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
“Dress!” Bearing a bundle of scrupulously folded rubious cloth, he glides from the nook with the grace of noiseless snowfall. A mere murmur of threads as he rests the red, pleated burden upon the foot of her pallet. She watches him wordlessly - her s...
16 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy’s seated at the round wooden table in his cabin, having just finished the task at hand. Underneath the bright floor lamp shining over his shoulder, he’s gone through every tree in the sketch book, comparing the names Drucker scribbled,...
13 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
A dream of drifting through wan birchwood under a sky, cornflower blue. Senescent leaf-litter velvety and snow-drift deep. Gentle, against bare feet. Ivory-sweet was her brother and mother. Brooding honey and coal-dark soft was her father. Green lem...
13 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Clay, who has no real interest in these matters, begs off in favor of heading back to the cabin, streaming a hunting show on his phone. The others break away from him in the hallway, turning left into the school office. With Liam in the lead...
