Teaser: A Blacker Dog
Contrary to legend, the black dog doesn't come looking for you. It's already there. Most people just don't see it until the right moment, but I'm not most people. I often wish I was. "What do you reckon, Hunter?" My partner gets down on all fours to...
Teaser: Lines
"You were on the phone, weren't you?" Iga asked, her voice carefully neutral. "Let's not do this now." I wanted to roll away but her sinuous body was locked around me, and the contact was suddenly cloying. I shuddered from neck to toes. Iga just...
Teaser: The Painted and the Plain
In the cool of the hut, Pep lay on her bed of grass and stared up at the ceiling. Light sneaked through cracks in the walls to make dancing patterns. The grass was fresh and didn't smell comforting yet, and it felt weird after a year of big city beds...
(Quite A Long Way) After Housman
Loveliest of dogs, the husky now Is barking loudly bow wow wow, And jumps about where he is tied Waiting for a winter ride.
Cave God
As you made fire, so you made me. From the skull of a bear you killed not because she was attacking or had attacked before but because she might attack From the skin of a sleeping lion you tracked and speared and thanked From these things, you...
Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre: Teaser
"Max, I want you to father my baby." It's not every day a guy gets that sort of proposition. Particularly a gay guy. I blinked at the clouded leopard over the rim of my coffee mug, took a sip to show how cool and unfazed I was, and burned my tongue....