The Reenactment
The nature of the universe was subjective, entirely dependent upon the perspective of each individual who experienced it. If a sentient being lived and grew…
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The Snow Girl’s Tale
Ever since her wedding, the Queen-Consort of the realm was called Queen Heavy-Heart, a name she had got for her grave mien’s sake, as if…
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…
From Below
It was a well in the depths of the woods. Nadja stopped before it. There was a clearing around it – barely a clearing, a…
Don’t Feed the Birds
The morning of my wedding, the sky was clear, a plane of burning blue. My evening suit hung out on a coathanger over the closet…
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…
The Price of Hilda
Heikki sat at the end of the Christmas dinner table, the place Hilda called “the seat of honour”: a ridiculous idea of what it meant…
Zode
There wasn’t a word for how she felt about her mother. All the words she knew were either positive, negative, or neutral. Her mother wasn’t…
The Silence in the Eye
No longer to be able to trust one’s senses is such a fate that one may argue whether it is milder than the gallows: to…
Put Her Down
The first time Jörgen and Malena used the threat was when Katja was ten. Qetesh must have been one year old; Katja had been nine…