Muze, Part 1: Death by Dream Girl
There initially was much clamoring over the distribution of Muze, the substance that many called a “miracle drug” for its ostensibly salubrious…
A Good Kill, Part 2
III. Kurt searched the cabinet for an old video about Mongol invaders. Clad in bulky fur and leather, Genghis Khan rode his horse, plunged into a…
James Patterson’s Victim
"the dead the vics of fate they should fight; rewrite their own stories…" ---Anonymous MOST PEOPLE DIE ONCE. But there are some who die twice. Or…
Memories of Africa
My friend is Sinforiano, from Cagaspurcio de la Sierra, a town that has now disappeared in the mountains of Burgos. I am Sisebuto, from El Boñigar,…
Feast of Samhain
“I see the company of timid ghosts. At evening also when the sun is low. Each with its finger to its lips goes by poor wild unutterable mysteries.”…
The Stone Tower
Everyone in Leighsburough knows of the Stone Tower. It’s the first structure you see while navigating the creeper-choked stony paths that bring you…
A Problem in Gravity, Part 1
I. A wise man once said, “Nothing stays nowhere.” So, it shouldn’t be a surprise when a problem in Gravity, Iowa, starting some months before, found…
Please Shut the Gate
“PRIVATE” declares the sign mounted on the farm gate. He knows it conceals a public footpath, in the drive alongside the house. He enters. He passes…
Dummy Up
Imagine that he was back there in the most expensive leather, his own, smell of oxidizing propulsion fuel reeking and mingling with the greasy…
A Good Kill, Part 1
I. Stripped to his shorts, still sweating after pumping iron, Kurt inserted the rifle’s barrel in his mouth. His .338 Lapua Magnum with the…
