She walks in the place between places, paw after paw, gentle step after gentle step.
To the Dark Tower Came…
The burning tower stands tall and lonely above the windswept flatness of the desolation...
A Farewell to 2020: My Top 5 Posts
These are the five stories I wrote and published on the blog in the year 2020 that I am personally most proud of. The ones that still resonate with me. The ones that don't make me cringe and think "Well, that was definitely dashed off in five minutes."
The Crossing
There is a wolf in the forest, with teeth like glinting knives and hungry, hungry eyes...
Behind the Sky
There is a crack in the sky today. Thin, spidery, creeping from the horizon, behind the ribboned white of the clouds.
Christmas Alone: A Ghost Story
It is December 20th. Brian is alone. That’s all right. He never liked Christmas anyway...
Escape Artist
Do not give paints to prisoner in Room 27, no matter how much she begs.
The Loneliest Place
They say the Antarctic is the loneliest place in the world...
The Truth Waits Beyond the Mountains
He wanted his whole life to find out what lay beyond the mountains, so soon as he was grown, he set off to climb them, though his parents grabbed at him and begged him to stay.
Bootstrap
... again. The machine is the only thing holding the universe together.