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“Mark died yesterday, Margery.” My tone was patient, sad but not distraught. The time for distraught was past, I thought. “Coral, don’t joke about those things. He was right here...
Growing Swirling Clouds
“Mark died yesterday, Margery.” My tone was patient, sad but not distraught. The time for distraught was past, I thought. “Coral, don’t joke about those things. He was right here...
Grimoire in hand, I grasp a bundle of dried leaves and stinging pine needles as I chant: “Become rice to fill her belly. Manifest spice to please her tongue. If...
What Is Conjured Shall Vanish
Grimoire in hand, I grasp a bundle of dried leaves and stinging pine needles as I chant: “Become rice to fill her belly. Manifest spice to please her tongue. If...
When the owl came to me, its eight frosted talons gripped our continents, and the atmosphere lapped its ankles like a tide pool. When it lowered its head from orbit,...
The Owl
When the owl came to me, its eight frosted talons gripped our continents, and the atmosphere lapped its ankles like a tide pool. When it lowered its head from orbit,...
I. Ansel No signs protect the backyards in this part of town from the Marl Pits Forest. There’s no treeline either. Of course there isn’t. But even in the dark,...
Our Lady of the Clay
I. Ansel No signs protect the backyards in this part of town from the Marl Pits Forest. There’s no treeline either. Of course there isn’t. But even in the dark,...
When he first approached me in the train station, I batted him away. I thought he was homeless. The weird, ellipsoidal neck tattoos creeping into view from his collar didn’t...
Wanderlust
When he first approached me in the train station, I batted him away. I thought he was homeless. The weird, ellipsoidal neck tattoos creeping into view from his collar didn’t...
The sunset was bolder than usual that evening, a deep indigo streaked with Dutch orange, fuchsia, and saffron. You barely noticed, hurrying as you were. You were on your way...
To Rise Again
The sunset was bolder than usual that evening, a deep indigo streaked with Dutch orange, fuchsia, and saffron. You barely noticed, hurrying as you were. You were on your way...
In the end, she goes to the bar on her own. It’s the first one she comes across after she storms out of the office. She’s seen it before, of...
The Jukebox Man
In the end, she goes to the bar on her own. It’s the first one she comes across after she storms out of the office. She’s seen it before, of...