Kat Howard is a World Fantasy Award nominated writer whose work has previously appeared in Apex Magazine, as well as Lightspeed, and Subterranean. Most recently, she has co–written a novella with Maria Dahvana Headley that will be published in 2014 by Subterranean Press. You can find her on Twitter at @KatWithSword.
I am not going to begin this story at the beginning. That would be the easy thing, and stories are not easy.
Love is supposed...
There is an entire history in the stars. Light takes time to travel, to get from wherever the star...
Kora had heard the rumors. They were everywhere that fall, blown on the wind along with the golden fans of fallen ginkgo leaves...
He wrote me into a story again.
I told him to stop doing that, after we broke up. In fact, it was one of the reasons we broke...
The island itself was made from bones.
There was a church, in another land, similarly constructed. The decayed flesh of the saints...
