I went to the little boy’s funeral. But I didn’t join the crowd. I saw his young mother, standing there, hunched and broken, and I couldn’t bear to face her. It wasn’t just that I’d […]
Tag: Feast of Shadows
(Fiction) Storybook Epic Fail
For eight and a half heady weeks, Kell worked as a sales rep for a liquor distributor, which was arguably the best job she ever had and probably ever could have. It was definitely the […]
The old ones are patient, and not so easily fooled. After the death of Solomon, wisest of rulers, the kingdom of the Hebrews was distributed equitably among his heirs, who distrusted each other as mightily […]
Why Read What Isn’t True?
In researching this book, I have amassed quite a miscellaneum of the occult. I am continually surprised by the depth and complexity of thought. I suppose because we have since decided that it is wrong, […]
(Fiction) That’s When I Saw the Stag
in this selection, the narrator is an 8-year-old boy The day Mr. A. Tranjay came was the same day I saw the stag. That’s what they’re called. I looked it up. A male deer with […]
(Fiction) Like Magic
“Look at this,” Hammond nodded down the road from where we were parked. A vintage black Jaguar purred as it rolled to a stop in front of the bistro down the street. From our vantage, […]
(Fiction) The House
The house hadn’t always been a house. It had been a house first, but then it was a train station. It was probably more things between. After being a train station, it was abandoned. After […]
