He was making a proper nuisance of himself, whoever he was. I could hear the screams from the street. I stepped out of the car and met the officer in charge, a woman named Ballantine, […]
Category: Fiction
(Fiction) A spell you can touch
“He’s not here,” Fish said from his throne behind the counter. “Did he say where?” “Naw. I don’t mean he stepped out, lady. I mean he left. Moved out. Whatever you said spooked him real […]
(Fiction) I will set you free!
People. That was the difference. If they had a mission, they would have put him somewhere secret, somewhere no one would see. Given him orders. When they put him in the middle of a crowd, […]
(Fiction) Babylon Eternal
“The Bible tells us that after the kingdom of Solomon was divided and so fell to the Babylonians, the author of the prophetic Book of Daniel was taken captive, along with a number of other […]
Wandering the Forest of Forgetting
There isn’t a common name for the magical community—other than that cumbersome phrase, I suppose—which is unfortunate because it’s a tower on a hill. A bastion, a keep, a prison. It gets its fair share […]
(Outtake) A Visit to the Night Market
“Where are we going exactly?” “The gypsy night market.” “Right.” I had no idea what that was. I hadn’t heard of there being a night market here like there is back home. “Why?” I wanted […]
It was a bad sign
It was a bad sign. Ruud stopped when he saw Zen-ji standing outside the closed doors to Erasmus’s chambers. The stiletto killer straightened his velvet tie and brushed back his pomaded hair before walking up […]
