Minn Ramsey spoke to God every day of her life. But it was only after blessed Preacher Martin came to town that God spoke back. And not just to her. To nearly every resident of […]
Category: Fiction
“As it was abandoned, the gardens and its buildings took on some of the attractions of a ruin: the tools in the earth-smelling potting shed were dusty and remote, and spiders spun webs across the […]
(Fiction) Once of Grace and Beauty
There once was a girl of grace and beauty who lived in a grand old house full of marble and gold with an army of servants who dressed her and fed her and shooed her […]
(Fiction) A Radioactive Man Has No Friends
Gilbert Tubers shuffled down the street in a huff, clutching the most valuable thing in the world. It was tucked under his arm inside a glass jar, and he admired it every twenty paces while […]
(Art + Fiction) Book from the Sky
It used to be only hardcore bibliophiles had heard of books like the Voynich manuscript, the Codex Seraphinianus, or Carl Jung’s The Red Book. In my research for FEAST OF SHADOWS last year, I discovered […]
(Fiction) A murder in broad daylight
29Sep I recorded his instructions on my phone. I’d intended to transcribe them later, if only for handy reference, but work intervened. I spent the next few days on a murder. Not all of them […]
(Fiction) Stranger on a train
I sprayed bleach solution over everything, just to be safe, before wiping it all down and throwing it in the big rubbish bin behind the fried chicken chain that was closed for the night. I […]
(Fiction) Terrible things are happening!
Just Like Old Times by Karel Capek Eupator, citizen of Thebes and basketmaker, was sitting in his courtyard weaving baskets when his neighbor Philagoros came running over, calling while still a long way off: “Eupator, […]
(Fiction) Dia de los Muertos
“Time to wake up.” Xana opened her eyes. She had fallen asleep on her luggage. The sun had moved in the sky and she was no longer in the shade. She squinted. She was sweating. […]
(Fiction) Wink was 97% certain the world was a simulation
Wink was 97% certain the world was a simulation. It was by far the most likely scenario. It was clear that intelligent life had evolved, somewhere, and intelligent life of any sort would inevitably create […]
