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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...
9 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“It’s funny, but I think I actually remember the last words I heard him say,” Emily recalls, as the six of them, with every overhead light and lamp on in the room, begin gently tossing it. “He was telling that mom and those kids at his last w...
5 Dec 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Emily doesn’t creep back into the cabin until shortly after sunrise. Jeremy tussles a little in the bed but doesn’t open his eyes, and she’s able to slip back in without his ever having noticed that she was away. Following such an experience in th...
5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
Two bubbly eyes look up:Where do you come from?What’s your past? My ears drop backward,the fur straightens downI’m from the future.You called me to help you sign up. Sign up? For what? Another confused one, I gasp. I try to decipher the linear timeli...
3 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The latest Saturday tour draws just seven paying customers, three of them at the kids’ price. This latter development occurs late in the afternoon, even, as a woman with three kids she is babysitting arrives and tells Grace, “we had a terrible tim...
2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
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...
