After Beltran’s visit, some of my restrictions were lifted. I was not allowed to speak to Etude and had no idea where in the cavernous dungeons he was being held—the same dungeons where the Eye […]
Category: Fiction
(Fiction) Abuelita’s One Good Thing
There was nothing left of the watchtower but a cluster of broken stone walls hanging onto each other like refugees in the water. As I got closer, I could see the central chamber on the […]
(Fiction) The Hall of Memory
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 […]
(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 […]
