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18 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
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...
18 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We took our guns from our packs. I heard the sound of twigs breaking just out of sight, then a pleading voice: “don’t shoot, don’t shoot. We’re unarmed.” A man stepped into the shadowy light of our almost expired campfire. Two smaller figures foll...
18 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes
Lev rarely fed where he lived. At least his brother had taught him that much, even though Alexei didn’t follow the rule himself. There were times, he was ashamed to admit, even he’d broken that rule. The consequences of being caught wouldn’t be as di...
17 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As we collected our gear and our horses, I decided it would be best to make the two day trek back home and use the truck for the trip to Oregon and check out this clan. On horseback such a distance would take a week each way and if the Indians spo...
17 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist
For a thousand years, the Opal Quarter has spread and sprawled like a hungry, fungal organ from out the ventricle of the great City’s heart. There are walls within walls, within tangles of odd architecture. Common masonry in the embrasure of uncanny...
16 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As summer approached so did my mission. I chose May and June to accompany me since Amira was so taken with April I didn’t want to tear them apart, in a river of tears. We practiced camping out in the woods several nights and made a day long expedi...
16 May 2023 6 minute read 2 comments stbrians
The Vice~He suddenly was startled from his deep sleep. Automatically his hand involuntarilywent to the table to switch off the alarm. To his utter amazement his alarm was not tobe located. That is when Mackenzie realized that he was in a strange loca...
15 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was fortunate that our new arrivals didn’t bring many farm animals because a large redwood grove isn’t the ideal place for a farm. There was one big storage shed a few hundred yards from the lodge and we emptied it of old furniture and turned i...
14 May 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
In the months following the two births I had less desire than ever to leave our tiny enclave in search of others. The world was too wide and too dangerous and I knew that bad things could easily happen to me if I set out alone in my truck, either...
13 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The first sign of progress was that they began to ask questions and not just stand mute and wait for explanations as they did at first. Their queries were similar to those of a small child with the word ‘why’ the most frequent. When we framed our...
