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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...
12 Nov 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
At no point had there ever been any news crew sent out to report on Ben and Lois’s mysterious fate, either at Otherwise or in their hometown or anywhere in between. Common sense seemed to indicate that there probably was a newspaper writeup or two...
5 Nov 2024 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Even in the absence of bodies, funeral preparations begin immediately. Though Jeremy and to a lesser extent Emily assure the others that they certainly don’t need to throw everything down to travel an hour and attend, nearly all involved with Otherw...
1 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
“I need to spiral out at a 45-degree angle. I need to program that deep into my mind and stick to it when negotiating with the Council. I’m done with this dense realm. No way I’m coming back one more time.” I look up at the North Star and wonder wher...
29 Oct 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
It’s funny how your mind can wander even at a time like this. The thought strikes Jeremy as he stands outside this gift shop, staring at the side of the police car. Then again, it’s not as though you can shut these thoughts down, not withou...
23 Oct 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Emily’s hard at work on her mural throughout the tour. She doesn’t find the presence of others the least bit distracting – on the contrary, she enjoys the warmth they bring to this environment. And if nothing else, it’s another attraction for luri...
