Her gown stole its color from the sea. Silken, its weave was so fine it caught the banquet’s torchlight. As she danced, bright streaks raced down the loose skirt in rivulets to the seafoam lace that rippled just above the floor. Her gloves were midnight, with buckles blinking like comets passing in the dark. Her … Continue reading The Alchemist and the Seamstress
Category: Stories
The Automaton
They say the metal man carries two things. One of these is a sword. Its blade is not of iron or steel, but of stone. They say it was forged of sky-stone, a gift from the stars themselves. This sword it drags in its wake, leaving a deep furrow through all that lay behind. They … Continue reading The Automaton
Ritrovando
Francesca was surrounded by a hungry silence. It clung to the emptiness around her. It sat in the dust-shadows left behind by a sword, in the scratches worn into the floor by a table, in the rusted hinges that used to hold shutters. It seeped into the cracks in the wood and tugged at her … Continue reading Ritrovando
The Moss Hag
Humans like to think that forests appear as miraculously as she does. One year there is an empty field, all grass and emptiness. The next there is a stand of trees, none wider around than I am now. Not so. She is needed: the Lady of the New Wood. She was like us once, a … Continue reading The Moss Hag
Lost in the Dark
Even though it is years behind him, Ganax finds himself recalling the day he fell through the ice. The lake on their family’s property always froze over during winter, and usually stayed solid through the end of April. He and his sisters spent the cold months bundled and sweating, sliding across the glassy surface. They … Continue reading Lost in the Dark
Gregory Blartrap
Gregory Blartrap was trapped, of all things, in a legal struggle. His father, Francois Blartrap, had just recently passed, and had left some remarkably unclear instructions as to the fate of his esteemed estate. The first line, for instance: “The following objects and items, should they belong to me, shall be given to my eldest … Continue reading Gregory Blartrap
Corey Laisure 