No one wanted to talk. That was fair – who’d want to spend what could be their last night jawing with anyone in that room? Sullen mugs, eyes all staring…
It wasn’t anything special. Just another place where the world’s slow death had opened into a wound. Festering the way only brick and time could. The wall rippled and repeated,…
The trains roar above and below. They never stop here. Never above and below, and never in the dark station where I am raising and dropping my knife, raising and…
Another of my stories has been released into the wild! Never Be Missed, the tale of a very unusual train heist, can be found in the latest issue of Andromeda…
“I’m scared.” “Don’t be,” she told him, the tiny boy whose name she didn’t even know, and heard the words clumsy and insensitive and terribly adult from her own lips.…
Life was hard on the stairs leading into the pit. But the screams below were worse, and the light above was frightening, so he made do as best he could.…
It had been easier, once, to just lie about having a wife. Better than trying to explain why he didn’t. Or ask why he should. More and more, the people…