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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...
22 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna twisted and kicked. Tore and pulled. As the tenebrous mass of clotted, lurid obscenities bore her deeper into the lightless reaches of the Great Lower Sea’s gloomy, and brinish womb. Her wheaty locks blooming beneath the murky waters, like that...
6 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna gazed for a long while upon the silent space left in Elshad’s wake. The encircling world receded and ceased to be, as she sank into recollections of her mortal family. Above all, was that most acute reminiscence of her...
16 Sep 2024 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
So Harry and Denise found the corresponding circuit box, along the back wall of the barn. At least that much seems reasonable, and expected. Emily isn’t quite sure she believes even her own sister’s tale, however, until she and Jeremy and a...
14 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The room expanded into a broad oblong gallery. Lit by narrow and tall, oiled and burnished brass canister-lamps that cast a grainy orange illumination, breeding macabre-bending shadows that raced across the bare, basalt-flagged ceiling with every tw...
4 May 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
He awoke convulsively, with the cresting roar of reverberating surf filling his ears. The weight of the Great Lower Sea’s torpid, black waters crushing his breast from within. Umin rolled over once again, and vomited a sickly, ropy stream of coal-da...
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...
1 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Lord Emberbole’s undergalley continued its lazy progress through the farther islets of the Archipelago of Koom. Its wide, arabesque belly dragging pearly-crested wavelets across the oily, cimmerian surf. They had, following...
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...
5 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I don’t know…it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” Clay’s telling whomever he’s speaking to on the phone, feet propped on a knotted pine coffee table in the main house’s library, “the closest town? I forget, it’s like…Spinning Rock or some shit. Aren...
