The Princess and the Snake-Leaves
No-one else in our age can tell the story of her death, so let me begin from that moment. I say that I can tell,…
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The Ediad
Sing, O Muse! Or at least hum a little. They stood on the windy plain before the walled city: Odysseus, the shrewd captain; Agamemnon, tamer…
Cause Ways
“What if?” is the essence of genre fiction. What if monsters were real? What if mankind had faster-than-light travel? What if there was a world…
The Fairy Godfather
I fluttered into the Don’s inner office and hovered there, my wings beating a hundred times a second, waiting for him to notice me. The…
The Rainstorm and the Dog: A Fairytale Reimagined
I think I left because it was so dark and so wet. Had the night been less dreary, then perhaps I could have been more…
She Who Watches
That was in the past, and now I live an ordinary life. I make breakfast for Perseus and our children, I teach Gorgophone the letters,…
Horkos, the Oath
When my friend Pythias told me that he would go abroad for a year to trade, and asked me to swear an oath to look…
Lilith
Do you know why I can’t hang your art on my wall? It’s because it’s the Dead Christ to my Dostoyevsky. “A painting like that…
I am Edith
David woke up not knowing where he was. He panicked before he realized he was in a bed! Then he remembered, “David…. My son David!”…
Speaking Truth to Power
I’ve written a lot of reviews and critiques. Books. Movies. Employee evaluations. Employer evaluations. Submissions to a writers’ group I was in. Long ago I…