The Curious Foxes, Chapter 10: The Magic of Silence
Chapter 10 - The Magic of Silence It is difficult to write about the state of my mind the night I’d learned that my mother was dead. I recall in my youth, when I’d visit a water park, these odd, mushroom-shaped structures that stuck out of the...
Cowboy Blue: Chapter 2 - Bloodhound
_Chapter 2 - Bloodhound_ He was gonna be a cowboy. He bought a one-way ticket on the Pacific Railroad with his daddy’s money. The work would be hard, the Mojave sun would make him sweat, and the feral cattle would make for poor partners in any...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 15: All Fun and Games
Chapter 15 - All Fun and Games the nature of a book. the nature of a text in the Record, or for the Record. it is no small thing that this, is the story that begs to be written. for it is true, that the Fox knows of a publisher, and a publisher...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 18: The Oigd’yiadttigdeit
Chapter 18 - The Oigd’yiadttigdeit Claudia was standing in the middle of the dirt road, only a minute away from my house. She held her umbrella in a strange manner, where one paw held the handle, and another gently held the pointed end. She had...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 16: A Case of the Many Doors Left Open
Chapter 16 - A Case of the Many Doors Left Open There was nothing at my house after all. I even went inside myself to poke around the interior of my humble abode. opening the door. And not a single thing was out of place. The trees failed to grow...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 20: Euchre and Malört
Chapter 20 - Euchre and Malört a thousand years ago, a Witch King yearned for immortality. he called upon an old and ancient Litch. he was more powerful and more cunning than any other Litch, for indeed, instead of killing to fill his phylactery,...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 7: A Burglary in Chicago
Chapter 7 - A Burglary in Chicago A manilla envelope arrived at my doorstep a few days later. There was no return address. Inside of the envelope were two things. The first was a poster for a performer’s show in some theater in Chicago. And it...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 19: Forsy in the Record
Chapter 19 - Forsy in the Record Palais was dead. Marianne would recover from her injuries and her curse, but Palais had died, and it was the Sphynx’s fault. I failed to notice myself falling to my knees. I snapped back to awareness, only to...
The Curious Foxes, Chapter 11: Zuma and the Teleraine Academy
Chapter 11 - Zuma and the Teleraine Academy Zuma the Puma had just landed at Sawyer International Airport. Marquette’s tiny little airstrip really only had flights going to Chicago and Detroit, but the latter city made for a convenient enough...