Her brother had never thought a thing through in his life. The number of times he’d called her to say that he was in trouble would have filled a year’s worth of witching hours. But she couldn’t complain – not… Continue reading

He tried to look at the screen only from the leery corner of his eye, as if it would help. Only the usual call-connecting colours flashed and coruscated across it so far, but if something else sensed the signal and… Continue reading

Some people, first hearing about the grand city of North Bearing, were surprised to be told that it had only one pier – privately owned, at that. Once they were told that North Bearing was completely and utterly land-locked, however,… Continue reading

Heaving gasps of steam and swaying over the snow, but in no danger of falling more than those few inches, and alive. Still alive, still moving, crawling towards the mouth of the cave. The angle of its mouth meant it… Continue reading

Her breath piled in white steam until a critical mass of it almost seemed to make the moon. Or maybe she had just been walking with her head down for much longer than she’d realized, and it had risen in… Continue reading

Her shadow stretched like a signal flare across the snow. The sun had set what she guessed to be half an hour ago, time kept by the numb pendulum swing of her trudging steps, but its light still echoed through… Continue reading

Some call it the logical conclusion of marriage. Some call it an abomination, but then, they’re probably the same sort of people who would have said that about the horseless carriage. Some try not to talk or think about it… Continue reading

Her mother might have been more horrified about the fact she was wasting food than the fact that food came from human veins. Twenty years since moss had started to grow on her mother’s gravestone, twenty three years since she… Continue reading

The soul spins in the chest like clay on a potter’s wheel. The warped sounds of its turning emerge as words and breath and spiral up into crooked thought. Time and the beating heart maintain its motion – tragedy briskly… Continue reading