Woo-Wobble-Wobble
Jinga the Sea Monster is wobbly and fierce. He is hideous and horrid. He sits in the Council beyond the Edge of the World and he judges. “Woo-wobble-wobble,” he says, shaking himself. “Humanity is...
View ArticleCelebration of the Seals
The first of the seven seals opens. The voice of the four living creatures cries out, “Come!” Then there is a man on a white horse. Then he is caparisoned with a crown. Then he rides forth, a conqueror...
View ArticleHard and Cold
–As Narrated by Margaret Theas When the shiv slid out of my side I knew I was alive. It was funny. I cried a bit, which is what one does. I hung around the prison yard. The sun inched eastwards across...
View ArticleContainment
The candy man lives alone. He lives in the house on the hill. It is surrounded by a great shadowy lawn, and around that lawn a gate of cold black steel. Guards patrol the premises. Every year Mr....
View ArticleThe Alphabet Game
We ask into the matter of the bear. White heat and light annihilate the store. Shoppers become ghosts in an instant, inundated and incinerated by that light. Their forms swell with it before they...
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