“Hi Linda! It’s Ralph again, from ‘New Life Start!’ calling to remind you: your very own ‘New Life Start!’ begins today! Just as soon as you mail us that check—” “Ralph?” said the voice on the other end, flatly. “This… Continue Reading
SHE FELL from the sky, a daughter of the sun. She was many forms, how fiery. In Phoenicia, she wore a flame of feathers and lived as a phoenix. In Persia the thunderbird built a nest and burst into fire,… Continue Reading
The feathered serpent faltered as it dropped below the smog line. Thousands of vehicles covered its former hunting grounds, covering the land in metal rivers and choking clouds. As it passed over the plateau’s heart, its iridescent scales faded to… Continue Reading
I sat on the foreshore of the Thames with Fluvi and Cemetery Joy. Together we watched the man struggling. My toes dug deep into the sediment and stones, the accumulated detritus of the filthy city. The tide crept closer in… Continue Reading
Some screamed, some whimpered. Quite a few were demonstrative, while others were quiet and desperate. And there were nearly as many languages as there were raindrops to carry them. He raised his face to the rain. Each drop broke upon… Continue Reading
Al Whitaker thought he handled last night’s catastrophes pretty well. He only punched his office wall. It hurt like bloody hell when he broke his hand, but he didn’t need his hand to do this job. He needed Boyd Salazar… Continue Reading
They completed the summoning in silence. Grey-robed and blindfolded, the adepts moved through steps they’d carefully rehearsed for weeks. All their hopes were pinned on this. If they were successful, perhaps the Lords of Order would tell them why no… Continue Reading
“The threads of life can be so easily cut,” The Great Rainbow Serpent said. His tongue, long and quivering, lashed out to touch the weave of the tapestry of life, to sense it, to hear its many, many thoughts. “The… Continue Reading
While Kari was married to the god of pain she never once stubbed a toe. No, it wasn’t quite that. It was that she could walk into walls and only know it from the fact that, well, she sure wasn’t… Continue Reading