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 […]
Tag: 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 […]
We jest, but this is about what it’s like anymore. More by Tom Gauld.
(Feature) How to Write Great Natural Magic in Fantasy
There are all different kinds of magic of course, but in fiction there are generally two: Machine Magic is usually part of a system where a certain outcome is more or less guaranteed as long […]
(Fiction) The bunny comes or I scream
I woke around noon to find a strange man standing over me. I shrieked and fell backward to the floor between the bed and the wall, claws up, ready to scratch the fucker’s eyes out. […]
Find it here. One part mystery. One part savagery. Three parts magic. Years ago, driven by greed, men penetrated the last soft places on earth. Out of the clear-cut jungle—out of nowhere—a man appeared, eyes […]
