Draper's Cabin
**I. Central State Hospital** It was warm the night we chose to take a walk down to Draper's Cabin. I remember it was a strange sort of evening in the late fall. The leaves were curiously still thick on the trees and the moon hung slightly...
Chapter the First: Wheels
The sky burned crimson in bright tapers with the setting of the amber colored sun, and Adrian stared absently out across the oddly hued grass and trees. Below him at the base of the hills, trees swam in gentle breezes and grass rolled across the...
Chapter the Tenth: History
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live, and gladly die. and laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: _Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the...
Chapter the Sixth: Dreams
Brodry sighed deeply as he lay restlessly in the cool inn bed. He always was a little uneasy in these rooms. The locks were never secure, and you never know what manner of parasites the previous tenants may have left for you. A taper flickered on a...
Chapter the Eleventh: Relations
_In my little town I never meant nothin' I was just my Father's Son. Saving my money, dreaming of glory, Twitching like the finger on the trigger of a gun._ **-Paul Simon, _"My Little Town"_** The wind blew a bit cooler, and the...
Love is a mountain.
A callous wind beat furiously against Jessica's stiffening body as she fought against the blistering cold of the mountainside. Her body was shaking miserably and her eyes burned from the wind and the stinging surge of arabesque crystals that prodded...
Just Desserts
Eric ran his fingers along the base of the young woman's ears and parted her hair slightly with his claws. A slick smile ran across the tall fox's lips as he looked down at the rabbit-girl's mouth sliding back and forth of the end of his length. This...
Chapter the Third: Different Stripes
Couric watched excitedly as the soldier men of his village, and their slaves marched solemnly into the city. He stood arm to arm with many other children of the community as they and their mothers looked anxiously on for their lovers, fathers, masters...
Chapter the Second: Swords of our Fathers
Laughter rang out across the village as children cavorted near the vacancy at the edge of the market. Young fox boys ran circles around each other, whooping and swinging sticks, or tiny wooden swords. Some wrestled and fought the way children often do...
Chapter the Fourth: Ghosts
"Derek!" The small kit sat somberly staring at his father. Riadne called his name again, but he didn't even acknowledge hearing her. By now, she would have assumed her voice would become hoarse, but it didn't. It just swam hauntingly through the...
Quietus: A Fairy Tale in Three Parts (1)
_Mistah Kurtz... He dead A penny for the old guy._ Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember usâ€"if at allâ€"not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. * * * Once upon a...
Jhuthi Rsi Ka Gana
Thousands of years ago, Medhavi was born a sage and looked on the world with wisdom. No sooner had he learned than he walked away from his family and into the rituals. He had no sooner...