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: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVIII
When he returned to the apartment and opened the door, Andrew was met with an unexpectedly cute sight - Bligh, up against the arm of the couch, Cody on top of him with his head resting against his chest, arms around his waist, snuggled up, watching...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVII
Andrew's sleep for the rest of the night was, as it had been on the couch with Bligh, dreamless - for as much and as long as the past had haunted most every time he had shut his eyes these traumatic two days, it had, at last, for the first night he...
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...
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...
Rat Prince: Act II
Rat PrinceAct IIRuinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant._________ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia It had been three days - had it been so long? He was there again, back where it all started, laying on the hardwood floor of...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode II
It was a five minute drive, probably less, and at that hour of the evening, barely six and everything closing for the day, it should have taken them less, but no - Bligh's Ranger was out of gas, he was going to fill up Monday, but tonight...
Rat Prince: Act I
Rat PrinceAct IAffirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum cæteris maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._________ Konrad Gesner, Historiæ Animalium It was just to take his mind off...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode I
It was very late afternoon that Sunday, the September Sun languid and broken through the blinds, and Andrew was in the kitchen, cutting up chicken for a dinner, on the bamboo board he had bought at Publix the last time he had gone there...
How Shadows Taste (reupload)
Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be wasted, Undone in mine undoing, And ruin'd in my ruin, Thirsty, canker'd, goblin-ridden?_________ Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" It gets dark out here at night,...
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...
Ursa Minor
_Bears sleep by day. At night they stay awake to chase away bad dreams._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Jesse O'Neil February in western Virginia is the time of the thaw - the weather becomes finer and warmer and the careless tossings of Winter's wrath become...