Upriver
They say he still wears clothes, but he'll take to the water soon._________H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" August - that time of the year when a stillness descends on the land, after the panicked fever-fires of July that ring...
Naantam, Naantam
They have supposed that there is something in the soil, climate and other circumstances of America, which occasions animal nature to degenerate, not excepting the man, native or adoptive, physical or moral._________ Thomas Jefferson, Notes On the...
Hecho En Florida
Hecho En Florida He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies._________ George Orwell, Animal Farm Anyone who has travelled that part of I-4 from Tampa to Orlando...
An Inner Impulse Rent the Veil: Movement One
An Inner Impulse Rent the VeilMovement One We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?"_________ Arthur Machen, Holy...
The Forest of the Noonday Sun
The Forest of the Noonday Sun Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungallèd play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away._________ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii West of...
The Dogs: Hath A Familiar Spirit
_Anyone who has ever lived in West Virginia, or even travelled through the state, can easily see what an ideal place it would be for ghosts._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ruth Ann Musick, _The Telltale Lilac Bush_ Moonshine is the drink of the mountaineer -...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode III
In the small space of time that it took for them to leave the gas station and come to the front door of the Green Room, Andrew fucked up really badly by being honest. As he was about to try and open the door to see if it was...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode V
Andrew shut the door behind him, hearing, as he did the first evening he and Bligh spent together as lovers, the sound of metal going into metal, demarcating him from the rest of the world. Behind the door was a secret, sacred solidarity -...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode IV
Bligh was glaring at Andrew - and Andrew felt it, he felt Bligh's eyes bore into him, and he kept his head facing the kitchen, watching Stephen root through his pantry like a raccoon, humming some deranged melody that Andrew suspected was a...
The Dogs: Litany - Preface
The novel that preceded this one was called The Dogs: Not Exactly Night; it is in that book that one first meets Andrew Lightfoot, Bligh Lynch, and Cody Tyree, and one first hears of Andrew's brother, Stephen. It has been called...
The Dogs: Litany - The World Enslaved In An Unlimited Moment
Stephen's eyes fluttered open, he lurched forward - on the edge of a couch, cloth, against his skin, and the pinching of a bunched up shirt underneath him, where the fuck was he, how the fuck did he get here? His head seemed to...
Pokémon: The Attack On Mount Silver
There was diamond-dust in the sky -- slivers of ice that danced in the wind as the Sun began its final descent in the west. The view was incomparable - Mount Silver, holy mountain, the resting place of the gods of...