I want her to wake up and see, even if it would be the death of me. To know I would do anything for her. Not the way a maid is expected to do ‘anything’ for her lady. Clean her… Continue reading

Finding out which animal you could transform into was a matter of glorious destiny. Of royal bloodline, all its strength and nobility made manifest in flesh and claw. Or so he’d been told while three brothers had reached their glorious… Continue reading

The rule for surviving the night out here is simple – ignore whatever calls for you from outside. Keep the doors and windows locked, the record player braying brassy cheer if you’re lucky enough to have one, and just don’t… Continue reading

The world had been safe and ordinary one step ago. He’d been walking the ordinary bridge from one place to another when his foot had caught fast and refused to follow him another step. It wrenched painfully against the turn… Continue reading

Acknowledging that the world was ordinary was part of growing up. Accepting that it was ordinary felt more like part of dying. So he never had – he kept taking his camera out to fields where farmers had supposedly seen… Continue reading

The worst part was that they couldn’t remember whether it had always been that way. They should have. It should have been obvious. If the door to their bedroom had always been the glimmering, expectant gap between backstage and a… Continue reading

It’ll be temporary, they all told him, like a comfort. Or a deadline – a demand that he should be himself again, the him they remembered, before his dazed, unfamiliar wandering around his own home could prove their predictions wrong.… Continue reading