Extractors
They say there ain’t no sound quite so terrifying as a collapsing Rust mine. From how the older Extractors tell it, the worst
Out Past the Breakers
Eva’s breathing grew labored as she climbed the seventy-two steps to the lighthouse’s lantern room. The village doctor had told her once that
The Archive of Names
The hall around me echoed; a smell of wax and wet stone drifted through the air. Incense swirled, its twisting, grey mist drifted
A Place in the Skies
Freya crouched precariously atop the mound of discarded metal. She toyed with the intricate pistons of a small gyrocopter engine, its brass casing
The Tiger’s Handmaiden
Soren was only a boy when I met him, a boy lost in the Forest of Souls. Princess Savine had taken me there, her newest
Your Payment to Middle Earth Has Been Accepted
My current mess started the day I opened my email to find an unusual subject line in one of the headers.
Uncharted
When I’d started the hike, solitude had felt like a gift—space to breathe, to let the silence scour away the months of second-guessing
My Name is Andy
My bike’s brakes squealed; the wind blew away the sound, and browny yellow leaves battered me. The windows of her house watched me
The Shanty Man
Rachel sneaked aboard at six bells, deep in the night. The ringing masked her tread. The snores of the sailors cloaked her steps,
The Reckoning
I saw my first hanging in Wapping when I was four years old. My father swung me up on his shoulders so I
And Here’s What I Said
The fucker stole the phone right out of my hand. I was in the middle of writing you an annoyingly difficult text, waiting
Yesterday in Sand
I carve deep grooves into the face before me, loose sand falling to the ground in small red piles. The eyes stare back at me