Take Apart Their Nightmares
They’d always be back. Weeks could slip by between visits, months on those odd years when the magic was never quite right, but they’d always be back. Sarah didn’t know what her father thought he could...
View ArticleThe Terrarium
Sam ducked down the dead-end passage that ran between two of the makeshift classrooms where it was dark and he could be alone. He retched up the fear with his hands cupped tight over his mouth; he...
View ArticleThe Flower
The truth was, Daniel was darned impressed by the flower. He was four years too young to be a novice Guildsman but his father was in the business, so he got to go outside the dome more than most kids....
View ArticleCity One
In some quarters they are liked, in others merely tolerated, in others still it is said they carry magic and as such each bears a price on their head. But liked or feared or hunted, in every Quarter...
View ArticleChrysalides
That’s when I lost it. I sat down in the mud room and I started to cry. I thought about calling my parents but I knew they wouldn’t believe me. Same with the police. And I wouldn’t in a hundred years...
View ArticleThis Serious Moonlight
When I was younger I had seen my father tied to the tree regularly, as if he was operating on some kind of cycle. But later he stopped submitting so easily to the ropes. He would try to trick us by...
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