That evening, after making sure my friends had something to eat, I followed Martin’s gracious suggestion and went up to the attic, a wide A-framed space from which one reached the cupola, the same cupola […]
Category: Fiction
(Fiction) The Knife That Killed Albert Gallagher Twice
We walked for hours through someone else’s dark and anxious dreams, and he navigated it as only a spiritwalker can, a man trained since birth not only to battle evil spirits but also to retrieve […]
(Fiction) To End All Prisons
Despite that many of them were Freemasons, a secret society steeped in the occult, the Founding Fathers envisioned an unspoiled continent, freed of old encumbrances—not just taxes but the arcane and complex practices that had […]
(Fiction) Borges’ The Theologians
I’m not in the habit of interpreting literature for others. As a rule, I can only mislead — or else rob you of a moment of profound insight. However, only very bad rules have no […]
(Fiction) The Game With No Winners
“I was a very spoiled girl,” I told her. By the time I was 13, I had already noticed how the men looked at me differently. It bothered me at first—that they dared be […]
(Fiction) The Collector
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 […]
(Fiction) A Fitting Place For Man-Eaters
It was a fitting place for man-eaters—murderous and silent and stocked with the dead of a hundred generations. It was a fitting place to bring the departed, even those still on two feet. “Damn, this […]
