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 […]
Category: Fiction
(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 […]
(Fiction) Tilting the Rings True
Despite that many of them were schooled as Masons, 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 […]
(Fiction) No one called it murder
No one called it murder. No one used words like “dead” or “body” or anything that might’ve implied prior humanity. The incident report, which stuttered out of an archaic fax machine just after 3:00 on […]
(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 […]
