‘She’ll write her story. If there is a story,’ the soldier says. He sits back against rubble, halfway into the stinking tunnel where iron stops abruptly and gives way to rock. A journalist with freckled cheeks huddles close and doesn’t understand a word he says. There is no energy in her to ask for a [...]
At the top of his tower the Master spends his days poring over fading symbols in ancient volumes, and every day that passes wreaks its slow ravages on the library of arcane texts he has consumed a life in accumulating. None are more learned than he in matters of legend and antiquity, but he has [...]
In the year 2008 a man named Arthur Spengle made a leap through time and space. From his laboratory in Texas, a small room papered with images of knights on horse back and dragons filling a ragged sky, Spengle’s home made time machine powered up for the first and last time in the 21st Century. [...]
I tell you, the sweet treats were malevolent. To anyone with only a superficial eye and ear for such underhanded schemes of a malign and devilish nature, it might have been perceived as a vision of pure benignity, the blessed chalice of Christ rendered manifest in the creaking and swaying form of a shimmering, prismatic [...]
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I. You scan the room slowly. Your eyes roam across the dimly-lit red upholstery and you wonder if you’ll be able to avoid the figure in the middle for much longer. Before the thing happened, you never absorbed the world like this. Now it was all you ever did, and it felt lonely. Your father [...]
