Fiction

The armies arrived with the dawn.  They brought arrows and swords, and delivered screaming death to the citizens of Xing Xing.  All the pretty flowers, […]

Dusk divides the comfortable, familiar, daylight city from one of darkness and shadow and mysteries and secrets. During the day, you can walk the streets, […]

Can you hear the music?  It’s not constant.  It drifts to me on the lightest of breezes, a single note or a measure, sometimes most […]

It begins with blood and screaming.  It ends with death.  All the stuff in the middle is filler.

Underground, where the subways roll, where the smells are unfamiliar and uncomfortable, where secrets aren’t buried but simply lost, there’s a spider casting its web. […]

The tracks lead east through the woods. The tracks lead west. They curve slightly, perhaps, but continue to some faraway stations Sue has never seen. […]

You know it won’t go well. The kid’s not quite in the corner, not quite in the shadows, with the gothic hair and iron piercings […]

Shadows hide the body in the alley, where it cools, and decomposes, and stinks to high heaven.  The blood beneath the corpse is coagulating, not […]

Quite suddenly, she opened her eyes. Outside, the night was peaceful, even pleasant, but clouds gathered in the corners of the sky and the temperature […]